# Brightcove **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/brightcove/ **Website:** https://www.brightcove.com **APIs profiled:** 53 Brightcove is an online video platform providing REST APIs for uploading and managing videos, encoding, CDN delivery, player configuration, analytics, and live streaming management. Its Video Cloud platform serves media companies, broadcasters, marketers, and OTT providers globally. ## Kin Score — 37.5 / 100 (thin) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.5). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 74.1 | | Contract Quality | 61.1 | | Governance | 0.0 | | Contract Governance | 0.0 | | Operational Transparency | 21.1 | | Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 | | Commercial Clarity | 36.8 | | Access Clarity | 36.8 | ## Agent readiness — 34.1 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | documented | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | no | | OpenAPI Examples | partial | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Enterprise · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: enterprise, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (53) - **Brightcove Dynamic Ingest API** — Handles ingestion of videos and media assets into Video Cloud, supporting remote URL ingestion and upload from local files. - **Brightcove Analytics API** — Retrieves analytics data programmatically for Video Cloud accounts, including dimensions like device type, geography, player, and video performance metrics. - **Brightcove Playback API** — Fetches video and playlist data for players and mobile apps, providing optimized delivery of media metadata and playback URLs. - **Brightcove Player Management API** — Creates, edits, and manages Brightcove players as publishable resources with full configuration control. - **Brightcove Live API** — Creates and manages live streams with comprehensive streaming controls including RTMP, RTP, RTP-FEC, and SRT input protocols and HLS output delivery. - **Brightcove OAuth API** — Implements OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow for managing credentials and obtaining access tokens for all Brightcove REST APIs. - **Brightcove SSAI API** — Enables server-side ad stitching directly into video streams, supporting VOD and live stream monetization with seamless ad insertion. - **Brightcove Ingest Profiles API** — Manages profiles that define video processing during ingestion, controlling encoding settings and rendition creation. - **Brightcove Delivery Rules API** — Customizes media delivery to meet specific business objectives, enabling conditional logic for rendition selection and CDN routing. - **Brightcove Cloud Playout APIs** — Manages cloud-based linear channel playout with EPG (Electronic Programming Guide) and Channels APIs for scheduled programming. - **Brightcove Audience API** — Retrieves viewing event and lead data for marketing automation workflows, enabling integration with MAP and CRM platforms. - **Brightcove Social API** — Retrieves social sharing status and history for videos distributed to social media platforms. - **Brightcove Playback Restrictions API** — Provides scalable playback management including DRM, concurrency controls, and geographic and domain restrictions. - **Brightcove Access Tokens API** — Get access tokens to authenticate API requests. - **Brightcove Account Configuration API** — Operations for managing default profiles for the account. - **Brightcove Ad Call Tracking API** — Operations for tracking ad calls - used primarily for debugging. - **Brightcove Ad Configurations API** — Operations for managing ad configurations. - **Brightcove Analytics Report API** — Full analytics reports with many options for filtering, date ranges, formats, and more. - **Brightcove Clear-Sources API** — Clear_sources endpoints expose unencrypted sources to the preview players in the studio for customers who are using [Playback Rights](/playback-restrictions/references/index.htm... - **Brightcove Client Credentials API** — Create client credentials needed to get access tokens. - **Brightcove Credentials API** — Operations for creating and managing credentials for secure destinations. - **Brightcove Custom Fields API** — Operations for creating and managing custom fields. - **Brightcove Delivery Rule Actions API** — Operations for creating, reading, updating and deleting Delivery Rule Actions - **Brightcove Delivery Rule Conditions API** — Operations for reading and updating Delivery Rule Conditions - **Brightcove Delivery Rules API** — Operations for reading Delivery Rules - **Brightcove Embed Configurations API** — Operations for managing player embed (child player) configurations. - **Brightcove Engagement Report API** — Detailed engagement reports by account, video or player. Detailed engagement is available only for the most recent 32 days. - **Brightcove Folders API** — Operations for managing folders to organize your videos. - **Brightcove History API** — Operations for getting the history of all or a specific video. - **Brightcove Ingest API** — The Ingest API from Brightcove — 2 operation(s) for ingest. - **Brightcove Labels API** — Operations for managing folders to organize your videos. See [Working with Labels](/cms/managing-videos/working-with-labels.html) for more information. - **Brightcove Leads API** — Get leads for a Video Cloud account. - **Brightcove Live Analytics API** — Analytics for Live streams - **Brightcove Live Job Clip API** — Operations for creating and managing VOD clips, including scheduling clips for SEP jobs - **Brightcove Live Jobs API** — Operations for creating live jobs, listing live jobs, getting job details, and canceling live jobs. There are also operations for activating and deactivating SEP jobs, schedulin... - **Brightcove Media Assets API** — Operations for managing renditions, manifests, and other media assets. These operations are used mainly for remote assets. - **Brightcove Media Sharing API** — Operations for creating and managing hierarchical labels that can be associated with videos. - **Brightcove Notifications API** — Operations for setting up and managing notifications of changes to your video library. - **Brightcove Player Configurations API** — Operations for managing player configurations. - **Brightcove Player Embeds API** — Operations for managing player embeds (child players). - …and 13 more, listed in full on the page. ## Agentic access (1) - **Brightcove Agentic Access** — 219 operations · 117 acting · 5 human-in-the-loop ## Security (3) - **Brightcove Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme - **Brightcove Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC - **Brightcove Trust Center** — ISO 27001, GDPR, CSA STAR ## Plans (1) - **Brightcove Plans Pricing** ## Tags Video, Media, Streaming, Live Streaming, Analytics, CDN, OTT, Player, Ad Insertion --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/brightcove/). 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