Push

Start Push Publishing

Start push publishing the stream with SRT, RTMP or MPEG2-TS. If the requested stream does not exist on the server, this task is reserved. And when the stream is created, it automatically starts push publishing.

Request

POST /v1/vhosts/{vhost}/apps/{app}:startPush

Header

Authorization: Basic {credentials}

# Authorization
    Credentials for HTTP Basic Authentication created with <AccessToken>

Body : SRT

{
  "id": "{unique_push_id}",
  "stream": {
    "name": "{output_stream_name}",
    "variantNames": []
  },
  "protocol": "srt",
  "url": "srt://{host}[:port]?mode=caller&latency=120000&timeout=500000",
  "streamKey": ""
}

# id (required)
    unique ID to identify the task
    
# stream (required)
    ## name (required)
        output stream name
        
    ## variantNames (optional)
        Array of track names to publsh. 
        This value is Encodes.[Video|Audio|Data].Name in the OutputProfile
        setting.
        
        If empty, all tracks will be sent.

# protocol (required)
    srt
    
# url (required) 
    address of destination.
    options can be set in query-string format.
    
# streamKey (optional)
    not used with mpegts

In SRT Push Publisher, only the caller connection mode is supported.

Body : RTMP

{
  "id": "{unique_push_id}",
  "stream": {
    "name": "{output_stream_name}",
    "variantNames": [ "h264_fhd", "aac" ]
  },
  "protocol": "rtmp",
  "url":"rtmp://{host}[:port]/{app_name}",
  "streamKey":"{stream_name}"
}

# id (required)
    unique ID to identify the task
    
# stream (required)
    ## name (required)
        output stream name
        
    ## variantNames (optional)
        Array of track names to publsh. 
        This value is Encodes.[Video|Audio|Data].Name in the OutputProfile
        setting.
        
        If empty, The first track among video tracks (by ID) and the first 
        track among audio tracks (by ID) are selected automatically.

# protocol (required)
    rtmp
    
# url (required) 
    address of destination
    
# streamKey (required)
    RTMP stream key

Body : MPEG2-TS

{
  "id": "{unique_push_id}",
  "stream": {
    "name": "{output_stream_name}",
    "variantNames": []
  },
  "protocol": "mpegts",
  "url": "udp://{host}[:port]",
  "streamKey": ""
}

# id (required)
    unique ID to identify the task
    
# stream (required)
    ## name (required)
        output stream name
        
    ## variantNames (optional)
        Array of track names to publsh. 
        This value is Encodes.[Video|Audio|Data].Name in the OutputProfile
        setting.
        
        If empty, all tracks will be sent.

# protocol (required)
    mpegts
    
# url (required) 
    address of destination
    
# streamKey (optional)
    not used with mpegts

Responses

200 Ok

The request has succeeded

Header

Content-Type: application/json

Body

Please note that responses are incorrectly returned in Json array format for version 0.15.3 and earlier.

{
    "statusCode": 200,
    "message": "OK",
    "response": {
        "id": "{unique_push_id}",
        "state": "ready",
            
        "vhost": "default",
        "app": "app",
        "stream": {
            "name": "{output_stream_name}",
            "trackIds": [],
            "variantNames": []
        },
            
        "protocol": "rtmp",
        "url": "rtmp://{host}[:port]/{app_name}",
        "streamKey": "{stream_name}",
            
        "sentBytes": 0,
        "sentTime": 0,
        "sequence": 0,
        "totalsentBytes": 0,
        "totalsentTime": 0,
            
        "createdTime": "2023-03-15T23:02:34.371+09:00",
        "startTime": "1970-01-01T09:00:00.000+09:00",
        "finishTime": "1970-01-01T09:00:00.000+09:00"
    }
}

# statusCode
    Same as HTTP Status Code
# message
    A human-readable description of the response code
# response
    Created push publishing task information

400 Bad Request

Invalid request.

401 Unauthorized

Authentication required

Header

WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=”OvenMediaEngine”

Body

{
    "message": "[HTTP] Authorization header is required to call API (401)",
    "statusCode": 401
}

404 Not Found

The given vhost or application name could not be found.

Body

{
    "message": "[HTTP] Could not find the application: [vhost/app1] (404)",
    "statusCode": 404
}

409 Conflict

duplicate ID

Stop Push Publishing

Request

POST /v1/vhosts/{vhost}/apps/{app}:stopPush

Header

Authorization: Basic {credentials}

# Authorization
    Credentials for HTTP Basic Authentication created with <AccessToken>

Body

{
    "id": "{unique_push_id}"
}

# id (required)
    unique ID to identify the push publishing task

Responses

200 Ok

The request has succeeded

Header

Content-Type: application/json

Body

{
    "statusCode": 200,
    "message": "OK",
}

# statusCode
	Same as HTTP Status Code
# message
	A human-readable description of the response code

400 Bad Request

Invalid request.

401 Unauthorized

Authentication required

Header

WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=”OvenMediaEngine”

Body

{
    "message": "[HTTP] Authorization header is required to call API (401)",
    "statusCode": 401
}

404 Not Found

The given vhost/application name or id of recording task could not be found.

Body

{
    "message": "[HTTP] Could not find the application: [vhost/app1] (404)",
    "statusCode": 404
}

Get Push Publishing State

Request

POST /v1/vhosts/{vhost}/apps/{app}:pushes

Header

Authorization: Basic {credentials}

# Authorization
    Credentials for HTTP Basic Authentication created with <AccessToken>

Body

{
    "id": "{unique_push_id}"
}

# id (optional)
    unique ID to identify the push publishing task. If no id is given in the request, the full list is returned.

Responses

200 Ok

The request has succeeded

Header

Content-Type: application/json

Body

The response is Json array format.

{
    "statusCode": 200,
    "message": "OK",
    "response": [
        {
            "id": "{unique_push_id}",
            "state": "started",
            
            "vhost": "default",
            "app": "app",
            "stream": {
                "name": "{output_stream_name}",
                "trackIds": [],
                "variantNames": []
            },
            
            "protocol": "rtmp",
            "url": "rtmp://{host}[:port]/{app_name}",
            "streamKey": "{stream_name}",
            
            "sentBytes": 0,
            "sentTime": 0,
            "sequence": 0,
            "totalsentBytes": 0,
            "totalsentTime": 0,
            
            "createdTime": "2023-03-15T23:02:34.371+09:00",
            "startTime": "1970-01-01T09:00:00.000+09:00",
            "finishTime": "1970-01-01T09:00:00.000+09:00"
        },
        {
            "id": "4",
            ...
        }
    ]
}

# statusCode
	Same as HTTP Status Code
# message
	A human-readable description of the response code
# response
	Information of recording tasks. If there is no recording task, 
	response with empty array ("response": [])

401 Unauthorized

Authentication required

Header

WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=”OvenMediaEngine”

Body

{
    "message": "[HTTP] Authorization header is required to call API (401)",
    "statusCode": 401
}

404 Not Found

The given vhost or application name could not be found.

Body

{
    "message": "[HTTP] Could not find the application: [vhost/app1] (404)",
    "statusCode": 404
}

State of Push Publishing

The Push Publishing task has the state shown in the table below. You can get the state in the Start Push Publishing and Get Push Publishing State API response.

Ready

Preparing to start or waiting for the stream to be created.

Started

In Progress

Stopping

Is stopping

Stopped

Error

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