Video Submission Guide
Contenda's guide to videos you can submit and if they will work
Officially supported
- YouTube video, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ or in the share link format https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ.
- Twitch Video on Demand, such as https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1079879708.
- Facebook video, such as https://www.facebook.com/PersonOfInterestTV/videos/1827475693951431.
- MUX video, such as https://stream.mux.com/uNbxnGLKJ00yfbijDO8COxTOyVKT01xpxW.m3u8.
Beta Support
Our service has the capability to try and ingest any arbitrary video you link to us on a “best effort” basis. The following sites may work:
- Google Drive video share links (when it’s pointing to one video file make sure it’s not a share link to an entire folder).
- Direct links to video files, such as https://download.blender.org/demo/movies/BBB/bbb_sunflower_1080p_60fps_normal.mp4. Most video codecs/file formats should work.
- Zoom cloud recording
- Microsoft Stream video (often Microsoft Teams call recordings are publicly shared as such)
- Dailymotion video
- Vimeo video
- LinkedIn video
- Reddit video
Not Supported
- Loom recording link
- Twitter video
General tips
- Our servers are currently located in the United States. Make sure the content you’re linking is not geo-blocked in the US; otherwise, we generally won’t be able to access it.
- We can only access videos that are publicly accessible, as we can’t sign in to access something private. This applies generally to everything, e.g., private YouTube videos, Google Drive share links that only work for a selected person, etc. We won’t be able to access any of these.
- Whenever you submit something, we’ll try to validate whether we can access it or not before accepting the request. If we refuse something that you believe should work, let support know, and we can take a look.
- We explicitly do NOT support ingesting entire channels (such as https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw) or playlists (like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&list=PLlaN88a7y2_plecYoJxvRFTLHVbIVAOoc).
See our API documentation for more details.