StreamYard

StreamYard is a professional live streaming and recording studio in the browser. Stream directly to multiple platforms simultaneously including YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, and Twitter/X. Interview remote guests, share screens, display overlays, and manage brand assets. The StreamYard API enables programmatic management of broadcasts, destinations, and recordings.

StreamYard publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Broadcasts API, Destinations API, and Recordings API. Tagged areas include Broadcasting, Live Streaming, Multistreaming, Recordings, and Video.

The StreamYard catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

StreamYard’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, support, and 16 more developer resources.

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34.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

3 APIs

Broadcasting Live Streaming Multistreaming Recordings Video

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 34.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 16.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.0 / 20

Access Clarity 4.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Contract Governance 1.6 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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

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APIs 3

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Streamyard Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Streamyard Scopes

3 scopes · authorizationCode

3 scopes

SCOPES

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Signup

Signup

Login

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Dashboard

Dashboard

Source (apis.yml)

aid: streamyard
name: StreamYard
description: StreamYard is a professional live streaming and recording studio in the browser. Stream directly to multiple
  platforms simultaneously including YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, and Twitter/X. Interview remote guests, share screens,
  display overlays, and manage brand assets. The StreamYard API enables programmatic management of broadcasts, destinations,
  and recordings.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/streamyard/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://streamyard.com/assets/images/logo.png
tags:
- Broadcasting
- Live Streaming
- Multistreaming
- Recordings
- Video
tags_raw:
- Broadcasting
- Live Streaming
- Multi-Streaming
- Recordings
- Video
type: Index
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consumer
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: streamyard:streamyard-broadcasts-api
  name: StreamYard Broadcasts API
  description: Manage live broadcasts and recordings. Broadcasts represent a streaming or recording session in the StreamYard
    studio.
  humanURL: https://developers.streamyard.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.streamyard.com
  tags:
  - Broadcasts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/streamyard-broadcasts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.streamyard.com/docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.streamyard.com/docs/authentication
- aid: streamyard:streamyard-destinations-api
  name: StreamYard Destinations API
  description: Manage streaming destinations — the platforms where broadcasts are streamed or published. Supported platforms
    include YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Twitch, and custom RTMP endpoints.
  humanURL: https://developers.streamyard.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.streamyard.com
  tags:
  - Destinations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/streamyard-destinations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.streamyard.com/docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.streamyard.com/docs/authentication
- aid: streamyard:streamyard-recordings-api
  name: StreamYard Recordings API
  description: Access recorded broadcasts. Once a broadcast ends, recordings become available for download.
  humanURL: https://developers.streamyard.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.streamyard.com
  tags:
  - Recordings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/streamyard-recordings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.streamyard.com/docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.streamyard.com/docs/authentication
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/streamyard/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/streamyard-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/streamyard-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/streamyard-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/streamyard-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/streamyard
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/streamyard
- type: Website
  url: https://streamyard.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.streamyard.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.streamyard.com/docs
- type: Dashboard
  url: https://streamyard.com/dashboard
- type: Signup
  url: https://streamyard.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://streamyard.com/login
- type: Pricing
  url: https://streamyard.com/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://streamyard.com/blog
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://streamyard.com/resources/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://streamyard.com/resources/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.streamyard.com
- type: Support
  url: https://streamyard.com/resources/support
- type: OpenAPI
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/streamyard/refs/heads/main/openapi/streamyard-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/streamyard/refs/heads/main/json-schema/streamyard-broadcast-schema.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/streamyard/refs/heads/main/json-ld/streamyard-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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