Metadata on a media file

Get the metadata on a media file URL

GET /media/meta

Metadata on a media file

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.ayrshare.com/api/media/meta \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch('https://api.ayrshare.com/api/media/meta', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

import requests

url = "https://api.ayrshare.com/api/media/meta"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.ayrshare.com/api/media/meta",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.ayrshare.com/api/media/meta"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.ayrshare.com/api/media/meta")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();

200: Success

{
    "codec": "h264",
    "duration": 28.24, // In seconds
    "filename": "https://img.ayrshare.com/random/landscape16.mp4",
    "format": "QuickTime / MOV",
    "height": 1080,
    "size": 16275959, // In bytes
    "type": "video",
    "width": 1920
}

{
  "action": "post",
  "status": "error",
  "code": 229,
  "message": "Error validating video. Please check the video or URL."
}

Retrieve the metadata on a media file URL to check format, dimensions, and other details.

Header Parameters

Query Parameters

url · string · required

Encoded URI of the externally accessible media file URL.

200: Success

{
    "codec": "h264",
    "duration": 28.24, // In seconds
    "filename": "https://img.ayrshare.com/random/landscape16.mp4",
    "format": "QuickTime / MOV",
    "height": 1080,
    "size": 16275959, // In bytes
    "type": "video",
    "width": 1920
}

{
  "action": "post",
  "status": "error",
  "code": 229,
  "message": "Error validating video. Please check the video or URL."
}