The JW Platform Delivery API at cdn.jwplayer.com offers endpoints from which you can request content and players configured in JW Platform. Embedding JW Platform hosted content and players in your sites and applications is achieved with the Delivery API through a standard URL scheme giving access to pre-packaged single line embeds, feeds, sources and other assets. These endpoints are the correct mechanism for making high volume calls from your webpage or application and are optimized for quick responses. Requests to the content service can be protected with URL token signing.
The fundamental changes in the v2 endpoints are:
- Interactive API documentation flowing from an Open API Initiative compliant API definition.
- Consistent naming across v2 Management and Delivery APIs aligned with terminology in the dashboard and support documentation.
- Significantly more request time parameterization, v2 endpoints accept numerous query parameters allowing for future feature growth without complicating simple calls.
- URL token signing based on modern cryptography and the JSON Web Tokens (JWT) standard.
Delivery API v2 endpoints
| Endpoints | Description |
|---|---|
| /playback.json | Provides a JSON object describing a media item including metadata, sources, and associated assets like tracks. Recommended for playback of all single media, but not currently for RSS feeds. |
| /v2/media/ | Provides a JSON object or RSS feed describing a media item including metadata, sources, and associated assets like tracks. Recommended only for playback through RSS feeds. |
| /v2/playlists/ | Provides a JSON object or RSS feed describing a playlist item including metadata and constituent media items with their metadata, sources, and associated assets like tracks |
Delivery API v1 endpoints
| Endpoints | Description |
|---|---|
| /feeds/ | Deprecated
Use /v2/media/{media_id} and /v2/playlists/{playlist_id} instead
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| /libraries/ | Provides access to single line embeddable cloud-hosted players with no media |
| /manifests/ | Provides access to adaptive bitrate streaming manifests for videos hosted with JW Platform |
| /players/ | Provides access to single line embeddable cloud-hosted players with media included in the embed |
| /thumbs/ | Provides access to video poster images |
| /tracks/ | Provides access to video timed text track files |
| /videos/ | Provides access to individual encoded video renditions hosted with JW Platform |