Serve API
Make Your Assets Available Automatically
We built the Serve API to make it easier for you to distribute the media assets you create with Shotstack.
Once you've created your media asset, you want your end user to see it as quickly as possible. Setting up storage, writing code to transfer files, organising your own CDN and being able to stream across geographic regions are just a few of the challenges you face.
The Shotstack Serve API allows you to make your media assets available immediately, through your preferred hosting provider. Currently we have integrations in place with AWS and Mux or you can choose to use Shotstack for hosting.
It would have taken a lot of research on what technologies we needed to leverage technically for us to achieve the desired outcome. This would have taken at least two months of engineering time for a simple use case, and up to 6 months if the scope widened.
As soon as you create your media asset using the Edit API, you can configure your settings to distribute directly to your hosting provider and stream straight away to your users. No lag, no link that expires and a high quality experience for your users.
We have built the infrastructure so you don't need to. You can automatically move your media assets to your preferred tech stack and start using them right away.
As soon as you create your media asset using the Edit API, you can configure your settings to distribute directly to your hosting provider and stream straight away to your users. No lag, no link that expires and a high quality experience for your users.
This application is the perfect example of a well executed and documented API. In less than 10 mins, set up, web hook done, and first render!
There are a couple of other options out there that attempt to provide the same or similar solution, but none of them come close in terms of quality, ease of use, and speed.
Shotstack was EXACTLY what I was looking for, and incredibly easy to get started with. You guys are killing it.
