Operations

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The Operations API contains all the Video Indexer APIs, such as Upload video, Get insights, and other operations

Search Videos

Search videos and projects in the specified account

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Request

Request URL

Request parameters

  • string

    Location indicates the Azure region to which the call should be routed
    See more details here

  • string

    Format - guid. Account ID is a globally unique identifier (GUID) for the account.
    See more details here

  • (optional)
    string

    Include only videos/projects with that source language. Supported languages: Chinese (Simplified): zh-Hans, English: en-US, Spanish: es-ES, French: fr-FR, Arabic: ar-EG, German: de-DE, Italian: it-IT, Japanese: ja-JP, Hindi: hi-IN, Korean: ko-KR, Russian: ru-RU, Portuguese: pt-BR.

  • (optional)
    boolean

    true will include only videos; false will include only projects

  • (optional)
    boolean

    true will include videos that have a source file; false will include projects as well as videos without a source file

  • (optional)
    string

    Include only the video with the given id as well as projects that have a source video with the given id

  • (optional)
    array

    A processing state of videos. Projects are always in 'Processed' state. Allowed values: Uploaded/Processing/Processed/Failed/Quarantined

  • (optional)
    array

    A privacy level. Allowed values: Private/Public

  • (optional)
    array

    A breakdown id to search for.

  • (optional)
    array

    A partition to search for.

  • (optional)
    array

    An external id to search for (which was associated with the video at upload).

  • (optional)
    array

    An owner to search for.

  • (optional)
    array

    A face to search for.

  • (optional)
    array

    Free text to search for.

  • (optional)
    array

    The text scope to search in.. Allowed values: Transcript/Ocr/Annotations/Brands

  • (optional)
    array

    The language to search in. You can specify multiple language parameters (e.g. $language=English&language=French) to search multiple languages. Having no language parameter will search all languages. Videos/projects are searchable in their source language as well as any language they were translated to by another operation. Supported languages: Serbian (Cyrillic): sr-Cyrl-RS, Serbian (Latin): sr-Latn-RS, Bosnian: bs-Latn, Chinese (Simplified): zh-Hans, Chinese (Traditional): zh-Hant, Filipino: fil-PH, Fijian: en-FJ, Samoan: en-WS, English: en-US, Greek: el-GR, Spanish: es-ES, Estonian: et-EE, Persian: fa-IR, Finnish: fi-FI, French: fr-FR, Haitian: fr-HT, Afrikaans: af-ZA, Arabic: ar-EG, Danish: da-DK, German: de-DE, Bulgarian: bg-BG, Bangla: bn-BD, Malagasy: mg-MG, Malay: ms-MY, Maltese: mt-MT, Catalan: ca-ES, Czech: cs-CZ, Dutch: nl-NL, Norwegian: nb-NO, Indonesian: id-ID, Italian: it-IT, Lithuanian: lt-LT, Latvian: lv-LV, Japanese: ja-JP, Urdu: ur-PK, Ukrainian: uk-UA, Hindi: hi-IN, Hebrew: he-IL, Hungarian: hu-HU, Croatian: hr-HR, Korean: ko-KR, Vietnamese: vi-VN, Turkish: tr-TR, Tamil: ta-IN, Thai: th-TH, Tongan: to-TO, Russian: ru-RU, Romanian: ro-RO, Portuguese: pt-BR, Polish: pl-PL, Swedish: sv-SE, Kiswahili: sw-KE, Slovenian: sl-SI, Slovak: sk-SK.

  • (optional)
    integer

    Format - int32. The number of results to return.

  • (optional)
    integer

    Format - int32. The number of results to skip (used for paging).

  • (optional)
    string

    Required for private videos/projects or account scope search
    Access token should match the authorization scope of the call (A video token for a single video/project search, or account token with read permissions)
    Note that Access tokens expire within 1 hour
    See more details here

Request body

Responses

200 OK

Search results

Representations

{
  "results": [
    {
      "accountId": "SampleAccountId",
      "id": "476892a745",
      "partition": null,
      "externalId": null,
      "metadata": null,
      "name": "test2",
      "description": null,
      "created": "2018-04-25T17=40=28.273+00=00",
      "lastModified": "2018-04-25T17=43=11.548+00=00",
      "lastIndexed": "2018-04-25T17=40=38.561+00=00",
      "privacyMode": "Private",
      "userName": "SampleUserName",
      "isOwned": true,
      "isBase": true,
      "state": "Processed",
      "processingProgress": "",
      "durationInSeconds": 13,
      "thumbnailVideoId": "476892a745",
      "thumbnailId": "d869021e-2a0b-4355-9c80-144e51aa8f6d",
      "social": {
        "likedByUser": false,
        "likes": 0,
        "views": 0
      },
      "searchMatches": [],
      "indexingPreset": "Default",
      "streamingPreset": "Default",
      "sourceLanguage": "en-US"
    },
    {
      "accountId": "SampleAccountId",
      "id": "30e66ec1b1",
      "partition": null,
      "externalId": null,
      "metadata": null,
      "name": "test3",
      "description": null,
      "created": "2018-04-25T16=50=00.967+00=00",
      "lastModified": "2018-04-25T16=58=13.409+00=00",
      "lastIndexed": "2018-04-25T16=50=12.991+00=00",
      "privacyMode": "Private",
      "userName": "SampleUserName",
      "isOwned": true,
      "isBase": true,
      "state": "Processing",
      "processingProgress": "",
      "durationInSeconds": 13,
      "thumbnailVideoId": "30e66ec1b1",
      "thumbnailId": "55848b7b-8be7-4285-893e-cdc366e09133",
      "social": {
        "likedByUser": false,
        "likes": 0,
        "views": 0
      },
      "searchMatches": [],
      "indexingPreset": "Default",
      "streamingPreset": "Default",
      "sourceLanguage": "en-US"
    },
    {
      "accountId": "SampleAccountId",
      "id": "3a9220459b",
      "partition": null,
      "externalId": null,
      "metadata": null,
      "name": "SampleVideo_1280x720_2mb222",
      "description": null,
      "created": "2018-04-25T16=29=43.099+00=00",
      "lastModified": "2018-04-25T16=57=07.7+00=00",
      "lastIndexed": "2018-04-25T16=29=54.767+00=00",
      "privacyMode": "Private",
      "userName": "ExampleUser",
      "isOwned": true,
      "isBase": true,
      "state": "Processing",
      "processingProgress": "",
      "durationInSeconds": 13,
      "thumbnailVideoId": "3a9220459b",
      "thumbnailId": "21700e5e-9736-42b9-9bbb-124df35295eb",
      "social": {
        "likedByUser": false,
        "likes": 0,
        "views": 0
      },
      "searchMatches": [],
      "indexingPreset": "Default",
      "streamingPreset": "Default",
      "sourceLanguage": "en-US"
    }
  ],
  "nextPage": {
    "pageSize": 25,
    "skip": 0,
    "done": true
  }
}

400 Bad Request

Representations

{
  "errorType": "INVALID_INPUT",
  "message": "Language 'BadLanguage' is not supported"
}

401 Unauthorized

Representations

{
  "errorType": "USER_NOT_ALLOWED",
  "message": "Access token is not authorized to access account 'SampleAccountId'."
}

500 Internal Server Error

Representations

{
  "errorType": "GENERAL",
  "message": "There was an error."
}

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X GET "https://api.videoindexer.ai/{location}/Accounts/{accountId}/Videos/Search?sourceLanguage={string}&isBase={boolean}&hasSourceVideoFile={boolean}&sourceVideoId={string}&state={array}&privacy={array}&id={array}&partition={array}&externalId={array}&owner={array}&face={array}&query={array}&textScope={array}&language={array}&pageSize=25&skip=0&accessToken={string}"

--data-ascii "{body}" 

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        
        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);


            // Request parameters
            queryString["sourceLanguage"] = "{string}";
            queryString["isBase"] = "{boolean}";
            queryString["hasSourceVideoFile"] = "{boolean}";
            queryString["sourceVideoId"] = "{string}";
            queryString["state"] = "{array}";
            queryString["privacy"] = "{array}";
            queryString["id"] = "{array}";
            queryString["partition"] = "{array}";
            queryString["externalId"] = "{array}";
            queryString["owner"] = "{array}";
            queryString["face"] = "{array}";
            queryString["query"] = "{array}";
            queryString["textScope"] = "{array}";
            queryString["language"] = "{array}";
            queryString["pageSize"] = "25";
            queryString["skip"] = "0";
            queryString["accessToken"] = "{string}";
            var uri = "https://api.videoindexer.ai/{location}/Accounts/{accountId}/Videos/Search?" + queryString;

            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
        }
    }
}	
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.videoindexer.ai/{location}/Accounts/{accountId}/Videos/Search");

            builder.setParameter("sourceLanguage", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("isBase", "{boolean}");
            builder.setParameter("hasSourceVideoFile", "{boolean}");
            builder.setParameter("sourceVideoId", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("state", "{array}");
            builder.setParameter("privacy", "{array}");
            builder.setParameter("id", "{array}");
            builder.setParameter("partition", "{array}");
            builder.setParameter("externalId", "{array}");
            builder.setParameter("owner", "{array}");
            builder.setParameter("face", "{array}");
            builder.setParameter("query", "{array}");
            builder.setParameter("textScope", "{array}");
            builder.setParameter("language", "{array}");
            builder.setParameter("pageSize", "25");
            builder.setParameter("skip", "0");
            builder.setParameter("accessToken", "{string}");

            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);


            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
            "sourceLanguage": "{string}",
            "isBase": "{boolean}",
            "hasSourceVideoFile": "{boolean}",
            "sourceVideoId": "{string}",
            "state": "{array}",
            "privacy": "{array}",
            "id": "{array}",
            "partition": "{array}",
            "externalId": "{array}",
            "owner": "{array}",
            "face": "{array}",
            "query": "{array}",
            "textScope": "{array}",
            "language": "{array}",
            "pageSize": "25",
            "skip": "0",
            "accessToken": "{string}",
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://api.videoindexer.ai/{location}/Accounts/{accountId}/Videos/Search?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
            },
            type: "GET",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
    NSString* path = @"https://api.videoindexer.ai/{location}/Accounts/{accountId}/Videos/Search";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                         @"sourceLanguage={string}",
                         @"isBase={boolean}",
                         @"hasSourceVideoFile={boolean}",
                         @"sourceVideoId={string}",
                         @"state={array}",
                         @"privacy={array}",
                         @"id={array}",
                         @"partition={array}",
                         @"externalId={array}",
                         @"owner={array}",
                         @"face={array}",
                         @"query={array}",
                         @"textScope={array}",
                         @"language={array}",
                         @"pageSize=25",
                         @"skip=0",
                         @"accessToken={string}",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
    // Request headers
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}

<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.videoindexer.ai/{location}/Accounts/{accountId}/Videos/Search');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
    'sourceLanguage' => '{string}',
    'isBase' => '{boolean}',
    'hasSourceVideoFile' => '{boolean}',
    'sourceVideoId' => '{string}',
    'state' => '{array}',
    'privacy' => '{array}',
    'id' => '{array}',
    'partition' => '{array}',
    'externalId' => '{array}',
    'owner' => '{array}',
    'face' => '{array}',
    'query' => '{array}',
    'textScope' => '{array}',
    'language' => '{array}',
    'pageSize' => '25',
    'skip' => '0',
    'accessToken' => '{string}',
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'sourceLanguage': '{string}',
    'isBase': '{boolean}',
    'hasSourceVideoFile': '{boolean}',
    'sourceVideoId': '{string}',
    'state': '{array}',
    'privacy': '{array}',
    'id': '{array}',
    'partition': '{array}',
    'externalId': '{array}',
    'owner': '{array}',
    'face': '{array}',
    'query': '{array}',
    'textScope': '{array}',
    'language': '{array}',
    'pageSize': '25',
    'skip': '0',
    'accessToken': '{string}',
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.videoindexer.ai')
    conn.request("GET", "/{location}/Accounts/{accountId}/Videos/Search?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'sourceLanguage': '{string}',
    'isBase': '{boolean}',
    'hasSourceVideoFile': '{boolean}',
    'sourceVideoId': '{string}',
    'state': '{array}',
    'privacy': '{array}',
    'id': '{array}',
    'partition': '{array}',
    'externalId': '{array}',
    'owner': '{array}',
    'face': '{array}',
    'query': '{array}',
    'textScope': '{array}',
    'language': '{array}',
    'pageSize': '25',
    'skip': '0',
    'accessToken': '{string}',
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.videoindexer.ai')
    conn.request("GET", "/{location}/Accounts/{accountId}/Videos/Search?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################
require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://api.videoindexer.ai/{location}/Accounts/{accountId}/Videos/Search')

query = URI.encode_www_form({
    # Request parameters
    'sourceLanguage' => '{string}',
    'isBase' => '{boolean}',
    'hasSourceVideoFile' => '{boolean}',
    'sourceVideoId' => '{string}',
    'state' => '{array}',
    'privacy' => '{array}',
    'id' => '{array}',
    'partition' => '{array}',
    'externalId' => '{array}',
    'owner' => '{array}',
    'face' => '{array}',
    'query' => '{array}',
    'textScope' => '{array}',
    'language' => '{array}',
    'pageSize' => '25',
    'skip' => '0',
    'accessToken' => '{string}'
})
if query.length > 0
  if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
    uri.query += '&' + query
  else
    uri.query = query
  end
end

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body