TwelveLabs Tasks API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: TwelveLabs Analyze Tasks API
  description: REST API for the TwelveLabs video-understanding platform. Upload and index video, run any-to-video semantic search (Marengo), generate text from video (Pegasus) - open-ended analysis, gist, and summaries - and create multimodal embeddings. All requests are authenticated with an `x-api-key` header.
  termsOfService: https://www.twelvelabs.io/terms-of-use
  contact:
    name: TwelveLabs Support
    url: https://docs.twelvelabs.io
    email: support@twelvelabs.io
  version: '1.3'
servers:
- url: https://api.twelvelabs.io/v1.3
security:
- apiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Tasks
  description: Upload and index video via asynchronous indexing tasks.
paths:
  /tasks:
    get:
      operationId: listTasks
      tags:
      - Tasks
      summary: List video indexing tasks
      parameters:
      - name: index_id
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Filter tasks by index.
      - name: status
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - validating
          - pending
          - queued
          - indexing
          - ready
          - failed
        description: Filter tasks by status.
      - name: page
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 1
      - name: page_limit
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          default: 10
          maximum: 50
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Task'
                  page_info:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageInfo'
    post:
      operationId: createTask
      tags:
      - Tasks
      summary: Create a video indexing task
      description: Uploads a video by local file or public URL and indexes it into the target index. Returns a task whose status can be polled until it becomes `ready`.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          multipart/form-data:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - index_id
              properties:
                index_id:
                  type: string
                  description: Unique identifier of the target index.
                video_file:
                  type: string
                  format: binary
                  description: The video file to upload (use this OR video_url).
                video_url:
                  type: string
                  description: Publicly accessible URL of the video (use this OR video_file).
                enable_video_stream:
                  type: boolean
                  default: true
                  description: Whether the platform stores the video for streaming.
                user_metadata:
                  type: string
                  description: JSON-encoded user metadata for categorization.
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Created
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Task'
  /tasks/{task_id}:
    get:
      operationId: retrieveTask
      tags:
      - Tasks
      summary: Retrieve a video indexing task
      description: Returns the status and details of a specific indexing task.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/TaskId'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Task'
    delete:
      operationId: deleteTask
      tags:
      - Tasks
      summary: Delete a video indexing task
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/TaskId'
      responses:
        '204':
          description: No Content
components:
  schemas:
    PageInfo:
      type: object
      properties:
        limit_per_page:
          type: integer
        total_results:
          type: integer
        page:
          type: integer
        total_page:
          type: integer
        next_page_token:
          type: string
        prev_page_token:
          type: string
    Task:
      type: object
      properties:
        _id:
          type: string
        index_id:
          type: string
        video_id:
          type: string
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - validating
          - pending
          - queued
          - indexing
          - ready
          - failed
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        updated_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        estimated_time:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        system_metadata:
          type: object
          properties:
            duration:
              type: number
            filename:
              type: string
  parameters:
    TaskId:
      name: task_id
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Unique identifier of the task.
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-api-key
      description: TwelveLabs API key sent in the `x-api-key` request header.