JW Player

JW Player is a video player and streaming platform offering REST APIs for media management, playlist creation, player configuration, analytics, and live stream orchestration. The Management API v2 provides programmatic control over your media library, players, advertising, DRM, webhooks, and live broadcasts. The Delivery API enables high-availability content embedding, playback metadata, streaming manifests, and SSAI configuration via CDN.

JW Player publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Video, Streaming, Media Management, Live Streaming, and OTT.

The JW Player catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

JW Player’s developer surface includes documentation, GitHub presence, engineering blog, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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28.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 5/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessEnterpriseApproval

3 APIs

Video Streaming Media Management Live Streaming OTT Playlists Analytics DRM Advertising Webhook Player

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 28.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 3.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.5 / 20

Access Clarity 11.6 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 5/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

JW Player Management API v2

Read-write REST API for programmatically managing your JWP media library, players, playlists, live streams, advertising configurations, DRM policies, transformations, and webhoo...

JW Player Delivery API

High-availability CDN-backed API for content embedding, playback metadata retrieval, poster images, streaming manifests, and server-side ad insertion (SSAI) configuration. Optim...

JW Player JavaScript Player API

Client-side JavaScript API for controlling the JW Player embedded in web pages. Exposes methods and events for playback control, configuration, playlist management, advertising,...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Jwplayer Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Jwplayer Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Jwplayer Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Jwplayer Context

67 classes · 14 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Jwplayer Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Jwplayer Trust Center

PCI DSS, GDPR

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: jwplayer
name: JW Player
description: JW Player is a video player and streaming platform offering REST APIs for media management, playlist creation,
  player configuration, analytics, and live stream orchestration. The Management API v2 provides programmatic control over
  your media library, players, advertising, DRM, webhooks, and live broadcasts. The Delivery API enables high-availability
  content embedding, playback metadata, streaming manifests, and SSAI configuration via CDN.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise · Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - url: https://jwplayer.com
    status: 301
    note: declared website redirects to https://jwx.com/ — a different registrable domain (jwplayer.com -> jwx.com), possible
      rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/jwplayer.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jwplayer/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Video
- Streaming
- Media Management
- Live Streaming
- OTT
- Playlists
- Analytics
- DRM
- Advertising
- Webhook
- Player
tags_raw:
- Video
- Streaming
- Media Management
- Live Streaming
- OTT
- Playlists
- Analytics
- DRM
- Advertising
- Webhooks
- Player
apis:
- name: JW Player Management API v2
  description: Read-write REST API for programmatically managing your JWP media library, players, playlists, live streams,
    advertising configurations, DRM policies, transformations, and webhooks. Authenticated via Bearer token with a 60 requests/minute
    rate limit.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.jwplayer.com/platform/reference/developer-tools
  baseURL: https://api.jwplayer.com/v2
  tags:
  - Media Management
  - Live Streaming
  - Playlists
  - Players
  - Advertising
  - DRM
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Media Management
  - Live Streaming
  - Playlists
  - Players
  - Advertising
  - DRM
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.jwplayer.com/platform/reference/developer-tools
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.jwplayer.com/platform/reference/authentication
- name: JW Player Delivery API
  description: High-availability CDN-backed API for content embedding, playback metadata retrieval, poster images, streaming
    manifests, and server-side ad insertion (SSAI) configuration. Optimized for global scale with short caching. Calls do
    not count toward the Management API rate limit.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.jwplayer.com/platform/reference/developer-tools
  baseURL: https://cdn.jwplayer.com
  tags:
  - Video Delivery
  - Playback
  - Streaming
  - SSAI
  - CDN
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.jwplayer.com/platform/reference/developer-tools
- name: JW Player JavaScript Player API
  description: Client-side JavaScript API for controlling the JW Player embedded in web pages. Exposes methods and events
    for playback control, configuration, playlist management, advertising, and analytics integrations.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.jwplayer.com/players/reference/javascript-player-api-introduction
  baseURL: https://cdn.jwplayer.com
  tags:
  - JavaScript
  - Player
  - Playback
  - Web
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.jwplayer.com/players/reference/javascript-player-api-introduction
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/jwplayer-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/jwplayer-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://jwplayer.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.jwplayer.com
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/jwplayer
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jwplayer
- type: Blog
  url: https://jwx.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://jwx.com/video-management-delivery-pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.jwplayer.com
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/jwdevelopers
- type: Plans
  url: plans/jwplayer-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/jwplayer-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/jwplayer-finops.yml
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://jwx.com/blog/rss.xml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/jwplayer-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- name: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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