Tutorials
Follow along these tutorials using api.video
Dive into our collection of tutorials, from learning on how to use api.video, building clones, to quick integrations. Whether you're a getting started or already building video-centric products, check our step-by-step guides.
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Tutorials · 6 min read
Analytics with api.video
How many people came to see my video? What can I learn about them? Enter api.video’s powerful video analytics API. Using the API, we can transfer all of the view data into our favourite database, and learn about the viewers of our videos.
Doug Sillars · August 13, 2020
Tutorials · 3 min read
Create a Live Stream
Live streaming your content is a great way to connect with your audience. In this tutorial, we'll walk through he steps you need to follow to set up a video livestream.
Doug Sillars · May 4, 2020
Tutorials · 3 min read
Adding chapters to your videos
When uploading a long video, it can be hard for your viewers to scan to the area of the video they are interested in. Rather than chop your video into smaller segments, you can use chapters to denote placeholders in your video so that your viewers can ‘skip ahead’ or ‘skip back’ to pertinent sections.
Doug Sillars · April 3, 2020
Tutorials · 1 min read
Authentication steps
Every call made to a api.video API requires an access_token. This tutorial will walk you through the authentication steps.
Doug Sillars · March 25, 2020
Tutorials · 3 min read
Video upload with cURL
api.video can help you simplify your video hosting and delivery. As such, one of the first things you'll want to do is to upload videos and get them loaded into the service. Once you upload the video, we'll take care of transcoding the video in to streams for delivery to your users.
Doug Sillars · March 19, 2020
Tutorials · 4 min read
Video upload (large videos) with cURL
When uploading large videos, they must be broken into 100MB chunks to ensure delivery. While these also may fail, the amount of time lost is minimised, and the segment can be retried.
Doug Sillars · March 10, 2020
Tutorials · 5 min read
How to add captions to your videos
Captions are not just for accessibility! They also increase views and viewing time for all users.
Doug Sillars · March 6, 2020
Tutorials · 1 min read
Video tagging best practices
Adding Tags is a great way to simplify searches in your video collection - you can simply search for a specific tag to show all of the videos.
Doug Sillars · January 1, 2020
Tutorials · 2 min read
Adding captions
Captions allow hearing impaired users to read the words being said in your video. It also improves watch times, and can improve your SEO.
Doug Sillars · January 1, 2020