JW Player

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
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jwplayer/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- 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
  - 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: 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: Blog
  url: blogs/blogs.json
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/jwplayer-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- name: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com