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The SesameVault API lets you easily integrate online video into your web or desktop applications. The API's core functionality includes video uploading, encoding, tagging, filtering, and reporting.
Although our API is platform independent, we offer a convenient API library (available in PHP, Ruby and Javascript) to help you make quick work out of any project. For example, getting a list of the videos stored in your account is as simple as:
$sesame = new SesameVaultSession('username', 'password');
$sesame->videos();
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Our unique media embed allows you to paste one line of code into your site and end up with video that plays seamlessly in HD or standard definition in any browser and on dozens of mobile devices.
- Embedding the UP in your site - as easy as copy and paste yet highly customizable through an easy-to-use interface
- Controlling the UP via Javascript - design custom controls or go further to build the next great innovation in media playback with the Universal Player as the engine
- Building easy Javascript sliders - an incredibly small (well under 4K) Javascript library that makes building and styling sliders (scrub bar, volume) a breeze
Easy-to-follow tutorials for making simple web applications using the SesameVault API.
- Introduction to SesameSeeds - add custom video player, list and upload widgets to your site in about 4 minutes
- Building an iPhone web app - construct a video gallery in under 15 minutes
- Styling an iPhone web app - apply native iPhone styling to the video gallery in 9 minutes
Useful tools for working with the API.
- SesameSeeds generator - add SesameVault functionality to your own website by generating custom video widgets (video lists, flash player, or video uploader) that paste into the HTML of your site
- API key generator - create temporary API keys for authorizing requests when you can't use your account username and password
Example applications that use the API. In order to test them you will need a SesameVault account.
- PHP uploader - upload videos from the browser to SesameVault while displaying the progress
- PHP video listing - displays videos in your account, and plays them via an embedded Flash player
- Custom Flash player integration
- shows how to access and play a random video from your account in a custom Flash player using ActionScript 3.
PHP, Ruby, Javascript, and Flash ActionScript libraries to simplify integration of the API with your app.
Using the API - describes the architecture of the API, including how to make requests and receive responses
API calls - all of the API calls, including examples to get you started quickly