The Vantage Gateway API

The Industry’s Most Mature, Well-Documented and Feature-Rich API for Cloud Encoding

As the gateway to our platform, the Vantage Gateway API empowers you with everything needed to distribute pristine VOD content, including transcoding, ABR packaging, complex audio processing, closed caption conversion, automated QC and DRM. Connecting is as simple as 1, 2, 3.

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Job-Centric Media Processing

With the Vantage Gateway API a single request can take an asset from any source location, provide desired transforms and deliver it securely to your destinations of choice. XML or JSON requests declare the desired action to take. With just one command you can perform complex, multi-step workflows, generate or re-use intermediaries to be used in subsequent requests, and quickly review all actions requested or applied to the job. This job-centric workflow model includes granular control from more than 50 different processing engines, significantly simplifying management of your VOD pipeline.

For a deep dive on how to interact with our API, check out our page for developers and engineers.

Easy Integration

Whether you’re a developer or a video engineer, our API makes it easy to migrate your VOD processing workflow to the cloud. Our API integrates with hundreds of CMS, MAM and post-production applications. Once you kick off a job, we’ll send a series of notifications to your platform so you know the status of every job, from ingest to delivery. To further simplify the migration process, our API Builder helps generate properly formatted XML files to test your JSON or XML requests before you write a single line of code.

XML

<query>
    <userid>[UserID]</userid> <!-- required-->
    <userkey>[UserKey]</userkey> <!-- required-->
    <action>[Action]</action> <!-- required-->
    <format>
        <rotate>[RotateDegree]</rotate>
        <set_rotate>[RotateMeta]</set_rotate>
    </format>
</query>

JSON

{
    "query": {
        "userid": "[UserID]",
        "userkey": "[UserKey]",
        "action": "[Action]",
        "format": {
            "rotate": "[RotateDegree]",
            "set_rotate": "[RotateMeta]"
        }
    }
}

Get Started

1. Register

An Vantage Gateway Developer account includes your API credentials, 1 GB of free encoding bandwidth per month and access to all of our platform’s powerful features.
Simply login to the Vantage Gateway client interface and select one of the monthly or pre-pay plans that best meets your projected encoding volumes and SLA requirements. All of our plans are designed to scale with your usage, though high-volume users should connect directly with us for custom plans.
2. Build & Post

Select target formats: Utilize one of our expert-designed web, mobile or set-top box presets, or customize and save your own encoding profiles. Presets are a great way to begin.
Build your XML template: Copy the XML from our web interface or code from scratch using our complete API documentation.
Post and go: Send your XML template to our API endpoint via an HTTP post. Or use our browser-based XML submission tool to verify and test your XML without writing a single line of code.
3. Integrate

Accelerate Your Development: We have API wrappers for all popular languages: PHP, Zend, Ruby, Python, Java, ColdFusion, .NET, VBScript
Design Your Workflow: Choose from basic or advanced workflows using AddMedia or AddMediaBenchmark. Add a simple listener script to receive our notification posts informing you when jobs are complete.
Browser Video Upload System (UGV): Enable end-users to upload videos directly to our platform. Our out-of-the-box PHP or .NET code includes API integration, browser-based upload functions, a progress bar, notifications and cloud storage.