/dw/videos

POST /api/dw/videos

Price: 5 credits

Get one Deutsche Welle video by url or content id: headline, description, transcript text, duration, HLS stream url, poster image, subtitles, authors, topics and related content.

How to use it

video accepts a full DW url, a path, or a bare content id in the form 'video-78218786'; a plain number also works. hls_url is an HLS playlist (.m3u8) with several bitrates, subtitles[] point to WebVTT tracks. Video ids come from dw/articles/search with media_type=['VIDEO'] or from a program's episode list. Base url is https://www.dw.com.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• video string required — DW video url, path or bare content id (examples: "https://www.dw.com/en/russian-nuclear-fuel-rods-made-in-germany/video-78218786", "video-78218786"; minLength: 1)
• language string — DW language edition, used when the identifier carries no language segment (default: "en"; one of: "de", "en", "ar", "es", "ru", "fr", "uk", "tr", "fa-ir", "fa-af", "ps", "ur", "hi", "bn", "pt-br", "pt-002", "pl", "ro", "sr", "bs", "hr", "mk", "sq", "bg", "el", "zh", "zh-hant", "id", "sw", "ha", "am")

Response

• @type string (default: "DwVideo")
• id integer required
• content_type string nullable
• language string nullable
• headline string required
• long_headline string nullable
• seo_title string nullable
• social_title string nullable
• alias string nullable
• url string nullable
• amp_url string nullable
• permalink_url string nullable
• teaser string nullable
• social_description string nullable
• text string nullable
• genre string nullable
• priority string nullable
• is_opinion boolean nullable
• is_indexed boolean nullable
• is_rtl boolean nullable
• subdomain string nullable
• published_at integer nullable
• republished_at integer nullable
• updated_at integer nullable
• content_at integer nullable
• content_date_mode string nullable
• category string nullable
• department string nullable
• geo_region string nullable
• country string nullable
• image object nullable
  • @type string (default: "DwImage")
  • id integer nullable
  • image string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • caption string nullable
  • credit string nullable
  • image_type string nullable
• authors array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DwPersonRef")
  • id integer nullable
  • name string required
  • alias string nullable
  • profile_url string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • role string nullable
  • short_profile string nullable
  • twitter_handle string nullable
  • note string nullable
• legacy_author string nullable
• topics array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DwTopicRef")
  • id integer required
  • name string required
  • url string nullable
• subjects array (default: [])
• regions array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DwRegion")
  • region_code string nullable
  • country_code string nullable
• programs array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DwProgramRef")
  • id integer required
  • name string required
  • url string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • image string nullable
• external_links array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DwExternalLink")
  • name string nullable
  • url string required
  • description string nullable
  • is_in_text boolean nullable
• content_links array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DwContentLink")
  • target_id integer nullable
  • target_type string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • is_in_text boolean nullable
• related_contents array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DwContentRef")
  • id integer required
  • content_type string nullable
  • headline string required
  • alias string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • language string nullable
  • subdomain string nullable
  • teaser string nullable
  • short_teaser string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • image_caption string nullable
  • content_at integer nullable
  • kicker string nullable
  • priority string nullable
  • genre string nullable
  • is_opinion boolean nullable
  • is_live_video boolean nullable
  • is_liveblog_active boolean nullable
  • duration integer nullable
  • formatted_duration string nullable
  • hls_url string nullable
  • mp3_url string nullable
  • poster_image string nullable
  • playback_format string nullable
  • image_count integer nullable
  • subtitles array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DwSubtitle")
    • language string nullable
    • language_code string nullable
    • subtitle_url string required
  • programs array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DwProgramRef")
    • id integer required
    • name string required
    • url string nullable
    • description string nullable
    • image string nullable
  • authors array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DwPersonRef")
    • id integer nullable
    • name string required
    • alias string nullable
    • profile_url string nullable
    • image string nullable
    • role string nullable
    • short_profile string nullable
    • twitter_handle string nullable
    • note string nullable
• embedded_videos array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DwContentRef")
  • id integer required
  • content_type string nullable
  • headline string required
  • alias string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • language string nullable
  • subdomain string nullable
  • teaser string nullable
  • short_teaser string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • image_caption string nullable
  • content_at integer nullable
  • kicker string nullable
  • priority string nullable
  • genre string nullable
  • is_opinion boolean nullable
  • is_live_video boolean nullable
  • is_liveblog_active boolean nullable
  • duration integer nullable
  • formatted_duration string nullable
  • hls_url string nullable
  • mp3_url string nullable
  • poster_image string nullable
  • playback_format string nullable
  • image_count integer nullable
  • subtitles array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DwSubtitle")
    • language string nullable
    • language_code string nullable
    • subtitle_url string required
  • programs array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DwProgramRef")
    • id integer required
    • name string required
    • url string nullable
    • description string nullable
    • image string nullable
  • authors array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DwPersonRef")
    • id integer nullable
    • name string required
    • alias string nullable
    • profile_url string nullable
    • image string nullable
    • role string nullable
    • short_profile string nullable
    • twitter_handle string nullable
    • note string nullable
• embedded_audios array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DwContentRef")
  • id integer required
  • content_type string nullable
  • headline string required
  • alias string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • language string nullable
  • subdomain string nullable
  • teaser string nullable
  • short_teaser string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • image_caption string nullable
  • content_at integer nullable
  • kicker string nullable
  • priority string nullable
  • genre string nullable
  • is_opinion boolean nullable
  • is_live_video boolean nullable
  • is_liveblog_active boolean nullable
  • duration integer nullable
  • formatted_duration string nullable
  • hls_url string nullable
  • mp3_url string nullable
  • poster_image string nullable
  • playback_format string nullable
  • image_count integer nullable
  • subtitles array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DwSubtitle")
    • language string nullable
    • language_code string nullable
    • subtitle_url string required
  • programs array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DwProgramRef")
    • id integer required
    • name string required
    • url string nullable
    • description string nullable
    • image string nullable
  • authors array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DwPersonRef")
    • id integer nullable
    • name string required
    • alias string nullable
    • profile_url string nullable
    • image string nullable
    • role string nullable
    • short_profile string nullable
    • twitter_handle string nullable
    • note string nullable
• embedded_galleries array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DwContentRef")
  • id integer required
  • content_type string nullable
  • headline string required
  • alias string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • language string nullable
  • subdomain string nullable
  • teaser string nullable
  • short_teaser string nullable
  • image string nullable
  • image_caption string nullable
  • content_at integer nullable
  • kicker string nullable
  • priority string nullable
  • genre string nullable
  • is_opinion boolean nullable
  • is_live_video boolean nullable
  • is_liveblog_active boolean nullable
  • duration integer nullable
  • formatted_duration string nullable
  • hls_url string nullable
  • mp3_url string nullable
  • poster_image string nullable
  • playback_format string nullable
  • image_count integer nullable
  • subtitles array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DwSubtitle")
    • language string nullable
    • language_code string nullable
    • subtitle_url string required
  • programs array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DwProgramRef")
    • id integer required
    • name string required
    • url string nullable
    • description string nullable
    • image string nullable
  • authors array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DwPersonRef")
    • id integer nullable
    • name string required
    • alias string nullable
    • profile_url string nullable
    • image string nullable
    • role string nullable
    • short_profile string nullable
    • twitter_handle string nullable
    • note string nullable
• duration integer nullable
• formatted_duration string nullable
• duration_iso8601 string nullable
• hls_url string nullable
• poster_image string nullable
• still_image string nullable
• playback_format string nullable
• valid_until integer nullable
• never_delete boolean nullable
• is_live_video boolean nullable
• has_multiple_contributions boolean nullable
• subtitles array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DwSubtitle")
  • language string nullable
  • language_code string nullable
  • subtitle_url string required

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — No DW video with this id in this language edition Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.