Creates a direct upload that allows video uploads without an API key.
/accounts/{account_identifier}/stream/direct_upload
post
Stream Videos
stream-videos-upload-videos-via-direct-upload-ur-ls
nullnull[
{
"in": "path",
"name": "account_identifier",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"description": "The account identifier tag.",
"example": "023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353",
"maxLength": 32,
"type": "string"
}
},
{
"in": "header",
"name": "Upload-Creator",
"schema": {
"description": "A user-defined identifier for the media creator.",
"example": "creator-id_abcde12345",
"maxLength": 64,
"type": "string"
}
}
]{
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"properties": {
"allowedOrigins": {
"description": "Lists the origins allowed to display the video. Enter allowed origin domains in an array and use `*` for wildcard subdomains. Empty arrays allow the video to be viewed on any origin.",
"example": [
"example.com"
],
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
"creator": {
"description": "A user-defined identifier for the media creator.",
"example": "creator-id_abcde12345",
"maxLength": 64,
"type": "string"
},
"expiry": {
"default": "Now + 30 minutes",
"description": "The date and time after upload when videos will not be accepted.",
"example": "2021-01-02T02:20:00Z",
"format": "date-time",
"type": "string"
},
"maxDurationSeconds": {
"description": "The maximum duration in seconds for a video upload. Can be set for a video that is not yet uploaded to limit its duration. Uploads that exceed the specified duration will fail during processing. A value of `-1` means the value is unknown.",
"maximum": 21600,
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer"
},
"meta": {
"description": "A user modifiable key-value store used to reference other systems of record for managing videos.",
"example": {
"name": "video12345.mp4"
},
"type": "object"
},
"requireSignedURLs": {
"default": false,
"description": "Indicates whether the video can be a accessed using the UID. When set to `true`, a signed token must be generated with a signing key to view the video.",
"example": true,
"type": "boolean"
},
"scheduledDeletion": {
"description": "Indicates the date and time at which the video will be deleted. Omit the field to indicate no change, or include with a `null` value to remove an existing scheduled deletion. If specified, must be at least 30 days from upload time.",
"example": "2014-01-02T02:20:00Z",
"format": "date-time",
"type": "string"
},
"thumbnailTimestampPct": {
"default": 0,
"description": "The timestamp for a thumbnail image calculated as a percentage value of the video's duration. To convert from a second-wise timestamp to a percentage, divide the desired timestamp by the total duration of the video. If this value is not set, the default thumbnail image is taken from 0s of the video.",
"example": 0.529241,
"maximum": 1,
"minimum": 0,
"type": "number"
},
"watermark": {
"properties": {
"uid": {
"description": "The unique identifier for the watermark profile.",
"example": "ea95132c15732412d22c1476fa83f27a",
"maxLength": 32,
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"maxDurationSeconds"
],
"type": "object"
}
}
},
"required": true
}{
"200": {
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"allOf": [
{
"allOf": [
{
"properties": {
"errors": {
"example": [],
"items": {
"properties": {
"code": {
"minimum": 1000,
"type": "integer"
},
"message": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"code",
"message"
],
"type": "object",
"uniqueItems": true
},
"type": "array"
},
"messages": {
"example": [],
"items": {
"properties": {
"code": {
"minimum": 1000,
"type": "integer"
},
"message": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"code",
"message"
],
"type": "object",
"uniqueItems": true
},
"type": "array"
},
"result": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "object"
},
{
"items": {},
"type": "array"
},
{
"type": "string"
}
]
},
"success": {
"description": "Whether the API call was successful",
"enum": [
true
],
"example": true,
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"required": [
"success",
"errors",
"messages",
"result"
],
"type": "object"
},
{
"properties": {
"result": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "object"
},
{
"type": "string"
}
]
}
}
}
],
"type": "object"
},
{
"properties": {
"result": {
"properties": {
"scheduledDeletion": {
"description": "Indicates the date and time at which the video will be deleted. Omit the field to indicate no change, or include with a `null` value to remove an existing scheduled deletion. If specified, must be at least 30 days from upload time.",
"example": "2014-01-02T02:20:00Z",
"format": "date-time",
"type": "string"
},
"uid": {
"description": "A Cloudflare-generated unique identifier for a media item.",
"example": "ea95132c15732412d22c1476fa83f27a",
"maxLength": 32,
"type": "string"
},
"uploadURL": {
"description": "The URL an unauthenticated upload can use for a single `HTTP POST multipart/form-data` request.",
"example": "www.example.com/samplepath",
"type": "string"
},
"watermark": {
"properties": {
"created": {
"description": "The date and a time a watermark profile was created.",
"example": "2014-01-02T02:20:00Z",
"format": "date-time",
"type": "string"
},
"downloadedFrom": {
"description": "The source URL for a downloaded image. If the watermark profile was created via direct upload, this field is null.",
"example": "https://company.com/logo.png",
"type": "string"
},
"height": {
"description": "The height of the image in pixels.",
"type": "integer"
},
"name": {
"default": "",
"description": "A short description of the watermark profile.",
"example": "Marketing Videos",
"type": "string"
},
"opacity": {
"default": 1,
"description": "The translucency of the image. A value of `0.0` makes the image completely transparent, and `1.0` makes the image completely opaque. Note that if the image is already semi-transparent, setting this to `1.0` will not make the image completely opaque.",
"example": 0.75,
"maximum": 1,
"minimum": 0,
"type": "number"
},
"padding": {
"default": 0.05,
"description": "The whitespace between the adjacent edges (determined by position) of the video and the image. `0.0` indicates no padding, and `1.0` indicates a fully padded video width or length, as determined by the algorithm.",
"example": 0.1,
"maximum": 1,
"minimum": 0,
"type": "number"
},
"position": {
"default": "upperRight",
"description": "The location of the image. Valid positions are: `upperRight`, `upperLeft`, `lowerLeft`, `lowerRight`, and `center`. Note that `center` ignores the `padding` parameter.",
"example": "center",
"type": "string"
},
"scale": {
"default": 0.15,
"description": "The size of the image relative to the overall size of the video. This parameter will adapt to horizontal and vertical videos automatically. `0.0` indicates no scaling (use the size of the image as-is), and `1.0 `fills the entire video.",
"example": 0.1,
"maximum": 1,
"minimum": 0,
"type": "number"
},
"size": {
"description": "The size of the image in bytes.",
"example": 29472,
"type": "number"
},
"uid": {
"description": "The unique identifier for a watermark profile.",
"example": "ea95132c15732412d22c1476fa83f27a",
"maxLength": 32,
"type": "string"
},
"width": {
"description": "The width of the image in pixels.",
"type": "integer"
}
},
"type": "object"
}
}
}
}
}
]
}
}
},
"description": "Upload videos via direct upload URLs response"
},
"4XX": {
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"properties": {
"errors": {
"allOf": [
{
"example": [],
"items": {
"properties": {
"code": {
"minimum": 1000,
"type": "integer"
},
"message": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"code",
"message"
],
"type": "object",
"uniqueItems": true
},
"type": "array"
}
],
"example": [
{
"code": 7003,
"message": "No route for the URI"
}
],
"minLength": 1
},
"messages": {
"allOf": [
{
"example": [],
"items": {
"properties": {
"code": {
"minimum": 1000,
"type": "integer"
},
"message": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"code",
"message"
],
"type": "object",
"uniqueItems": true
},
"type": "array"
}
],
"example": []
},
"result": {
"enum": [
null
],
"nullable": true,
"type": "object"
},
"success": {
"description": "Whether the API call was successful",
"enum": [
false
],
"example": false,
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"required": [
"success",
"errors",
"messages",
"result"
],
"type": "object"
}
}
},
"description": "Upload videos via direct upload URLs response failure"
}
}[
{
"api_email": [],
"api_key": []
}
]