REACH Programming Guide: Getting Started

Introduction

Limelight REACH provides application programming interfaces so developers can read and manipulate REACH resources. Specifically, the REACH APIs allow the following operations:

• create, read, update and delete content collections in a REACH account
• create, read, update and delete videos in a content collection
• check the status of all video jobs associated with a video being processed by REACH

API Access

Before using the REACH API, you need the ID and authentication token associated with your REACH account. Contact Limelight support to obtain these credentials.

About This Guide

This guide describes the REACH resources you access via the API, the operations you perform on those resources, and how to interpret the API responses. The following sections are included:

• Use Cases—how to use the API to accomplish typical integration tasks. (under construction)
• REST Client—how to use the web-based REST client to invoke the API for testing and document-generation. (under construction)
• Resources—a description of the REACH objects you can access using the API, including methods, query parameters, inputs and responses from each.