# Wowza **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/wowza/ **Website:** https://www.wowza.com **APIs profiled:** 48 Wowza is a Denver, Colorado-based video streaming infrastructure provider that has been simplifying live and on-demand streaming since 2007. The platform spans three flagship products — Wowza Streaming Engine (a self-hosted, on-prem/cloud/edge media server supporting RTMP, RTSP, SRT, WebRTC, HLS, and MPEG-DASH), Wowza Video (a fully managed, cloud-based streaming platform with a v2.0 REST API for live streams, transcoders, stream sources, stream targets, schedules, real-time streams, videos, categories, viewer analytics, ingest data, engagement, popularity, and quality-of-experience monitoring), and Wowza Flowplayer (a commercial-grade HTML5 video player with iOS, tvOS, and Android SDKs, DRM, ad insertion, and 30+ modular plugins). Wowza powers over 200,000 streaming instances across 140 countries, serving security and surveillance, law enforcement, government and defense, sports and live events, smart cities, industrial monitoring, healthcare, and OTT customers. Developer surface includes a public OpenAPI 3.0 specification for Wowza Video, a Swagger-derived OpenAPI 3.0 specification for Wowza Streaming Engine's REST API (default base http://localhost:8087), a Java API for extending Streaming Engine via plugins, a Wowza IDE, Postman collections, and a large public WowzaMediaSystems GitHub organization of plugins, modules, sample apps, and language SDKs. ## Kin Score — 48.6 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 48.6). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 68.5 | | Contract Quality | 56.8 | | Governance | 0.0 | | Contract Governance | 0.0 | | Operational Transparency | 36.8 | | Developer Ergonomics | 69.0 | | Commercial Clarity | 44.7 | | Access Clarity | 44.7 | ## Agent readiness — 35.9 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | partial | | Rate Limit Signal | no | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium). ## APIs (48) - **Wowza Streaming Engine Java API** — Native Java API for extending and customizing the Wowza Streaming Engine media server via server listeners, application modules, HTTP providers, and Media Reader/Writer plugins.... - **Wowza Flowplayer** — Commercial-grade HTML5 video player with iOS, tvOS, and Android SDKs, DRM (Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady), ad insertion, real-time streaming at scale plugin support, and 30+ mod... - **Wowza GoCoder SDK** — Wowza GoCoder broadcasting SDK for iOS and Android — capture, encode, and stream live video and audio from mobile devices directly to Wowza Streaming Engine or Wowza Video. Offi... - **Wowza Real-Time Streaming SDK** — WebRTC-based SDK for delivering sub-second-latency live streams at scale through the Wowza Real-Time Streaming service. Public documentation repo and WebRTC sample applications ... - **Wowza advanced_token_authentication API** — Operations related to using advanced token authentication, known in Wowza Video as a default playback token behavior option, with videos. Use token authentication when distribut... - **Wowza analytics_engagement API** — Operations related to engagement analytics for a VOD stream. - **Wowza analytics_ingest API** — Operations related to ingest analytics for a live stream. - **Wowza analytics_popularity API** — Operations related to popularity analytics. - **Wowza analytics_viewers API** — Operations related to viewer analytics. - **Wowza Applications API** — The Applications API from Wowza — 69 operation(s) for applications. - **Wowza assets API** —
The assets operations are deprecated in 2.0. Use the /videos endpoints instead.
Operations related to assets, which ar... - **Wowza categories API** — Operations related to categorizing videos. - **Wowza clipping API** — Operations related to clipping and stitching videos and live streams. - **Wowza live_streams API** — Operations related to live streams. A live stream is a single, linear video broadcast. You broadcast a live stream by receiving encoded source video into the Wowza Video service... - **Wowza Machine Stats API** — The Machine Stats API from Wowza — 2 operation(s) for machine stats. - **Wowza players API** —
The player operations are deprecated in 2.0. Create and update player configurations in the user interface. Any values you send using the pl... - **Wowza quality_of_experience API** — Operations related to quality of experience metrics. - **Wowza real_time API** — Operations related to Real-Time Streaming at Scale. If your audience is fewer than 300 viewers or you want to deliver a stream in near real time alongside other delivery protoco... - **Wowza recordings API** —
The recordings operations are deprecated in 2.0. Use the /videos endpoints instead.
Operations related to recordings, ... - **Wowza REST information API** — The REST information API from Wowza — 1 operation(s) for rest information. - **Wowza schedules API** — Operations related to schedules. Schedules allow you to automatically start or stop a live stream or transcoder at a predetermined date and time. You can configure a schedule to... - **Wowza Server Licenses API** — The Server Licenses API from Wowza — 1 operation(s) for server licenses. - **Wowza Server Listeners API** — The Server Listeners API from Wowza — 1 operation(s) for server listeners. - **Wowza Server log4j system API** — The Server log4j system API from Wowza — 3 operation(s) for server log4j system. - **Wowza Server MediaCache API** — The Server MediaCache API from Wowza — 8 operation(s) for server mediacache. - **Wowza Server MediaCache Version 3 API** — The Server MediaCache Version 3 API from Wowza — 6 operation(s) for server mediacache version 3. - **Wowza Server MediaCasters API** — The Server MediaCasters API from Wowza — 2 operation(s) for server mediacasters. - **Wowza Server Monitoring API** — The Server Monitoring API from Wowza — 2 operation(s) for server monitoring. - **Wowza Server Publishers API** — The Server Publishers API from Wowza — 2 operation(s) for server publishers. - **Wowza Server Publishers Version 3 API** — The Server Publishers Version 3 API from Wowza — 2 operation(s) for server publishers version 3. - **Wowza Server Status API** — The Server Status API from Wowza — 1 operation(s) for server status. - **Wowza Server Transcoder API** — The Server Transcoder API from Wowza — 1 operation(s) for server transcoder. - **Wowza Server Tuning API** — The Server Tuning API from Wowza — 1 operation(s) for server tuning. - **Wowza Server Users API** — The Server Users API from Wowza — 2 operation(s) for server users. - **Wowza Servers Configuration API** — The Servers Configuration API from Wowza — 12 operation(s) for servers configuration. - **Wowza storage API** —
The storage operations are deprecated in 2.0. Operations related to peak and current storage for an account. - **Wowza stream_sources API** — Operations related to stream sources. You can create a Wowza stream source and associate it to a live stream or transcoder. ### Wowza Stream Sources When you set up a Wowza stre... - **Wowza stream_targets API** — Operations related to stream targets. A stream target is a destination for a stream. Stream targets can be Wowza Video edge resources; custom, external destinations, target dest... - **Wowza transcoders API** — Operations related to transcoders, output renditions, and output stream targets. ### Transcoders Wowza Video transcoders allow you to customize transcoding processes by creating... - **Wowza usage_account API** — Operations related to stream analytics for an account. - …and 8 more, listed in full on the page. ## Agentic access (1) - **Wowza Agentic Access** — 491 operations · 251 acting · 10 human-in-the-loop ## Security (2) - **Wowza Authentication** — http · 3 schemes - **Wowza Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC ## Use cases (10) - **Security and Video Surveillance** — 24/7 live monitoring for security operations, law enforcement, and physical security with RTSP ingest. - **Government and Defense** — Mission-critical streaming for defense, intelligence, and government agencies — including tactical and ISR workflows. - **Sports and Live Events** — Low-latency live event production and distribution, including auction, betting, and interactive sports use cases. - **OTT Streaming** — VOD and live OTT services with ABR delivery, DRM, and analytics. - **Smart Cities and Industrial Monitoring** — Edge-deployed media servers for traffic, infrastructure, and industrial IoT camera feeds. - **Healthcare and Telemedicine** — Secure live and recorded video for telemedicine, surgical observation, and medical education. - **Interactive and Real-Time Apps** — WebRTC-powered sub-second video for auctions, gaming, fitness, and two-way interactive experiences. - **Broadcasting and Media** — SRT contribution feeds, contribution-to-CDN workflows, and live-to-VOD archiving for broadcasters. - **Education and E-Learning** — Live lectures, recorded course content, and interactive classroom video. - **Houses of Worship** — Multi-platform restreaming and on-prem capture for religious organizations. ## Tags Video, Streaming, Live Streaming, Video-on-Demand, Transcoding, Media Server, RTMP, RTSP, SRT, WebRTC, HLS, MPEG-DASH, Real-Time Streaming, Low Latency, Video Player, HTML5 Player, DRM, CDN, Video Analytics, QoE, Webhook, Edge, Surveillance, OTT --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/wowza/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.