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You can retrieve details for a specific video if you have the video ID. In this guide, we'll walk through the code to retrieve it and how to retrieve it from the dashboard.

API documentation

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Retrieve video info

To retrieve information about any of your videos, use this code sample:

cURL

curl --request GET \
     --url https://ws.api.video/videos/viZxSTFgXZVjFnFCUo363Ie \
     --header 'Accept: application/json' \
     --header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE2NDI1NDk1NjAuMDE5ODA0LCJuYmYiOjE2NDI1NDk1NjAuMDE5ODA0LCJleHAiOjE2NDI1NTMxNjAuMDE5ODA0LCJwcm9qZWN0SWQiOiJwclJ6SUpKQTdCTHNxSGpTNDVLVnBCMSJ9.jjr4YADGbe62RmBBxJXLy1D61Mtfry_dq9nbriBXgkPrdlBJ8ZRP50CyW3AsGD7wSuKp2mXxEYSzj64zelT1IGOwg6KG4Gz9BZ9YWs0GAHKUIdgqn1gzITX5aQljIXx1fquXbawd-axBTi4icmaUjgXjfnyIcWOgHd2D8A3kpKiqiMmluh58JdnwPnH0OyVk0Rk824P0PI6SxfiTHfkCglPL6ixf9OgokMLPoVrsxH5C0xt3Z7lf5TJ0F78-JY-yTKvyaTTIfI6CFOMNaZUlMtgQwq8X93_2FA65Ntw3hdDML8gFKkLUxnBAtZMo9WAjUd30G4OcYasmlkc4Q_JSNw'

package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "os"
    apivideosdk "github.com/apivideo/api.video-go-client"
)

func main() {
    client := apivideosdk.ClientBuilder("YOUR_API_TOKEN").Build()
    // if you rather like to use the sandbox environment:
    // client := apivideosdk.SandboxClientBuilder("YOU_SANDBOX_API_TOKEN").Build()
        
    videoId := "videoId_example" // string | The unique identifier for the video you want details about.

    
    res, err := client.Videos.Get(videoId)

    if err != nil {
        fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error when calling `Videos.Get``: %v\n", err)
    }
    // response from `Get`: Video
    fmt.Fprintf(os.Stdout, "Response from `Videos.Get`: %v\n", res)
}

PHP

<?php
require __DIR__ .'/vendor/autoload.php';

use Symfony\Component\HttpClient\Psr18Client;
use ApiVideo\Client\Client;
use ApiVideo\Client\Model\VideosApi;

$apiKey = 'api key here';
$apiVideoEndpoint = 'https://ws.api.video';

$httpClient = new \Symfony\Component\HttpClient\Psr18Client();
$client = new ApiVideo\Client\Client(
    $apiVideoEndpoint,
    $apiKey,
    $httpClient
);

$videos = $client->videos()->get('video ID here');

Javascript

const ApiVideoClient = require('@api.video/nodejs-client');

(async () => {
    try {
        const client = new ApiVideoClient({ apiKey: "YOUR_API_TOKEN" });

        const videoId = 'videoId_example'; // The unique identifier for the video you want details about.

        // Video
        const result = await client.videos.get(videoId);
        console.log(result);
    } catch (e) {
        console.error(e);
    }
})();

Python

## Get details about a single video using its video ID
import apivideo
from apivideo.apis import VideosApi
from apivideo.exceptions import ApiAuthException

api_key = "your api key here"
video_id = "video ID for video you want info about here"

client = apivideo.AuthenticatedApiClient(api_key)

## If you'd rather use the sandbox environment:
## client = apivideo.AuthenticatedApiClient(api_key, production=False)

client.connect()

videos_api = VideosApi(client)

## Get details about a single video by video ID
response = videos_api.get(video_id)
print(response)

Retrieve video info from your dashboard

If you don't want to retrieve video details programmatically, you can also view videos in your dashboard. To do that, do the following:

Log in to your dashboard.
From the menu on the left, choose Videos.
Click on the video for which you want to view details. You can use the filtering options to help you find the one you want.
When the pop-up for the individual video you chose appears, click See details to review all the information about the video.

Conclusion

It can be useful to retrieve a single video's details to determine if anything needs updating, or to collect key information like the video ID or mp4 link.

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