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1. API Description

Domain name for API request: vod.intl.tencentcloudapi.com.

This API is no longer maintained. Please use the ProcessMedia API of MPS and specify the video URL in the input parameter InputInfo.UrlInputInfo.Url.

A maximum of 100 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

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2. Input Parameters

The following request parameter list only provides API request parameters and some common parameters. For the complete common parameter list, see Common Request Parameters.

Parameter Name Required Type Description
Action Yes String Common Params. The value used for this API: ProcessMediaByUrl.
Version Yes String Common Params. The value used for this API: 2018-07-17.
Region No String Common Params. This parameter is not required.
SubAppId No Integer VOD application ID. For customers who activate VOD services after December 25, 2023, this field must be set to the app ID when accessing resources in VOD applications (whether the default application or a newly created application).
InputInfo No MediaInputInfo The API is no longer maintained. For the Recommended Alternative API, refer to the API description.
OutputInfo No MediaOutputInfo Output file COS path information.
AiContentReviewTask No AiContentReviewTaskInput Parameters for the video content review task.
AiAnalysisTask No AiAnalysisTaskInput Parameters for the video content analysis task.
AiRecognitionTask No AiRecognitionTaskInput Parameters for the video content recognition task.
TasksPriority No Integer Priority of the task flow. The higher the value, the higher the priority. The value range is from -10 to 10. If left blank, the default value is 0.
TasksNotifyMode No String Task flow status change notification mode. Valid values: Finish, Change, and None. If not specified, the default is Finish.
SessionContext No String Source context, which is used to pass through the user request information. The callback for task flow status changes will return the value of this field. The maximum length is 1,000 characters.
SessionId No String Identifier for deduplication. If a request with the same identifier has been sent within the past 3 days, an error is returned for the current request. The maximum length is 50 characters. If this is not specified or left empty, deduplication is not performed.

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name Type Description
TaskId String Task ID.
RequestId String The unique request ID, generated by the server, will be returned for every request (if the request fails to reach the server for other reasons, the request will not obtain a RequestId). RequestId is required for locating a problem.

4. Example

Example1 Trigger a content analysis task

This example shows you how to initiate a content analysis task for a video with the URL

http://www.abc.com/abc.mp4

.

Input Example

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: vod.intl.tencentcloudapi.com
Content-Type: application/json
X-TC-Action: ProcessMediaByUrl
<Common request parameters>

{
    "InputInfo": {
        "Url": "http://www.abc.com/abc.mp4",
        "Name": "great power diplomacy",
        "Id": "872988202"
    },
    "OutputInfo": {
        "Region": "ap-guangzhou",
        "Bucket": "myoutputbucket-1256244234",
        "Dir": "/output/test/"
    },
    "AiAnalysisTask": {
        "Definition": 10
    }
}

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "5ca61e3a-6b8e-4b4e-9256-fdc701190064ef0",
        "TaskId": "125xxxxxx07-procedurev2-813dc41e6fdc22dcf24aa6e9c61cp92"
    }
}

Example2 Trigger a content review task

This example shows you how to initiate a content review task for a video with the URL

http://www.abc.com/abc.mp4

.

Input Example

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: vod.intl.tencentcloudapi.com
Content-Type: application/json
X-TC-Action: ProcessMediaByUrl
<Common request parameters>

{
    "InputInfo": {
        "Url": "http://www.abc.com/abc.mp4",
        "Name": "great power diplomacy",
        "Id": "872988202"
    },
    "OutputInfo": {
        "Region": "ap-guangzhou",
        "Bucket": "myoutputbucket-1256244234",
        "Dir": "/output/test/"
    },
    "AiContentReviewTask": {
        "Definition": 10
    }
}

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "5ca61e3a-6b8e-4b4e-9256-fdc701190064ef0",
        "TaskId": "125xxxxxx07-procedurev2-893dc41e6fdc22dcf24aa6e9c61cp94"
    }
}

Example3 Trigger a content recognition task

This example shows you how to initiate a content recognition task for a video with the URL

http://www.abc.com/abc.mp4

.

Input Example

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: vod.intl.tencentcloudapi.com
Content-Type: application/json
X-TC-Action: ProcessMediaByUrl
<Common request parameters>

{
    "InputInfo": {
        "Url": "http://www.abc.com/abc.mp4",
        "Name": "Great Power Diplomacy",
        "Id": "872988202"
    },
    "OutputInfo": {
        "Region": "ap-guangzhou",
        "Bucket": "myoutputbucket-1256244234",
        "Dir": "/output/test/"
    },
    "AiRecognitionTask": {
        "Definition": 10
    }
}

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "5ca61e3a-6b8e-4b4e-9256-fdc701190064fk3",
        "TaskId": "125xxxxxx07-procedurev2-813dc41e6fdc22dcf24aa6e9c61f3t0"
    }
}

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6. Error Code

The following only lists the error codes related to the API business logic. For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.

Error Code Description
FailedOperation Operation failed.
FailedOperation.InvalidVodUser The VOD service is not activated.
FailedOperation.TaskDuplicate Operation failed: duplicate task.
InternalError Internal error.
InternalError.GetFileInfoError Internal error: media file info error.
InvalidParameter Parameter error.
InvalidParameterValue.AiAnalysisTaskDefinition Parameter value error: AI analysis Definition.
InvalidParameterValue.AiContentReviewTaskDefinition Parameter value error: AI content review Definition.
InvalidParameterValue.AiRecognitionTaskDefinition Parameter value error: AI recognition Definition.
InvalidParameterValue.SessionContextTooLong SessionContext is too long.
InvalidParameterValue.SessionId Duplicate recognition code. Request deduplicated.
InvalidParameterValue.SessionIdTooLong SessionId is too long.
InvalidParameterValue.SubAppId Parameter value error: app ID.
UnauthorizedOperation Unauthorized operation.

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