Adding videos from HTTP(s)/FTP urls
Send an HTTP PUT request to the API endpoint https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos/importUrl
to initiate video import from any HTTP/ FTP URL. A JSON Object containing the URL needs to be passed
{ "url": "{{URLString}}"}
Most video streaming service providers provide API access through which you may access the original video file, to initiate video import.
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Import Video URL Sample CodeThe URL of the video is presented as {{URLString}} in the sample code. Replace it with your desired URL String.
- CURL
- NODE
- PHP
- C#
- Python
- Ruby
curl -X PUT \ https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos/importUrl \ -H 'Accept: application/json' \ -H 'Authorization: Apisecret a1b2c3d4e5' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{ "url": "{{URLString}}"}'
var request = require("request");
var options = { method: "PUT", url: "https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos/importUrl", headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", Accept: "application/json", Authorization: "Apisecret a1b2c3d4e5", }, body: { url: "{{URLString}}" }, json: true,};
request(options, function (error, response, body) { if (error) throw new Error(error);
console.log(body);});
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array( CURLOPT_URL => "https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos/importUrl", CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PUT", CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([ "url" => "{{URLString}}" ]), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( "Accept: application/json", "Authorization: Apisecret a1b2c3d4e5", "Content-Type: application/json" ),));
$response = curl_exec($curl);$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) { echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;} else { echo $response;}
var client = new RestClient("https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos/importUrl");var request = new RestRequest(Method.PUT);request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");request.AddHeader("Accept", "application/json");request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Apisecret a1b2c3d4e5");request.AddParameter("undefined", "{\n\t\"url\": \"{{URLString}}\"\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
import requestsimport json
url = "https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos/importUrl"payload = json.dumps({"url":"{{URLString}}"})headers = { 'Authorization': "Apisecret a1b2c3d4e5", 'Accept': "application/json", 'Content-Type': "application/json" }
response = requests.request("PUT", url, data=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)
require 'uri'require 'json'require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://dev.vdocipher.com/api/videos/importUrl")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(url)request["Authorization"] = 'Apisecret a1b2c3d4e5'request["Accept"] = 'application/json'request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'request.body = ({:url => "{{URLString}}"}).to_json
response = http.request(request)puts response.read_body