Video Transcoding

Create a transcoding job

POST

https://peertube2.cpy.re/api/v1/videos/{id}/transcoding

curl -X POST 'https://peertube2.cpy.re/api/v1/videos/42/transcoding' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{
  "transcodingType": "hls",
  "forceTranscoding": false
}'

const body = `{
  "transcodingType": "hls",
  "forceTranscoding": false
}`;

const response = await fetch('https://peertube2.cpy.re/api/v1/videos/42/transcoding', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_TOKEN',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body,
});

const data = await response.text();

import requests

body = '''{
  "transcodingType": "hls",
  "forceTranscoding": false
}'''

response = requests.post(
    'https://peertube2.cpy.re/api/v1/videos/42/transcoding',
    data=body.encode('utf-8'),
    headers={
        'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_TOKEN',
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    },
)
print(response.text)

Request Body

{
  "transcodingType": "hls",
  "forceTranscoding": false
}

Body

application/json

transcodingTypestringhlsweb-videorequired

forceTranscodingbooleanfalse

If the video is stuck in transcoding state, do it anyway

Parameters

idid | UUIDv4 | shortUUIDrequiredpath

The object id, uuid or short uuid

Response

204No Content

successful operation

404Not Found

video does not exist

Authorization

OAuth2oauth2

Authenticating via OAuth requires the following steps:

Have an activated account
Generate an access token for that account at /api/v1/users/token.
Make requests with the Authorization: Bearer <token> header
Profit, depending on the role assigned to the account

Note that the access token is valid for 1 day and is given along with a refresh token valid for 2 weeks.

Scopes: admin

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