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Media Jay Playout API (2025-09-02)

The playout API of the Media Jay application provides access to the playout data and orchestrates extended queries.

Authentication

To access the endpoints you require a X-API-Key in the header. Partners, please contact Transfermedia support@transfermedia.de to retrieve one.

Versioning

To use a specific implementation version of this API place it to the request header X-API-Version. If the header is missed the latest implementation version 2025-09-02 is used. The response header X-API-Version returns the implementation version the request was processed with.

Further documentation

For further details please visit the documentation or contact Transfermedia support@transfermedia.de.

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openapi.json
openapi.yaml
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Servers
Production server

https://live.playout.api.jay-metadata.com/v1/

Session Tracking

APIs for managing user tracking sessions. These endpoints allow clients to create, retrieve, and delete tracking sessions which are used for analytics and user behavior tracking.

Operations

Formats

Access to formats metadata (aka movie collections or series).

Operations

List all available formats (aka movie collections or series)

Request

List all available formats (aka movie collections or series) for the specified playout. Note that due to paging (since X-API-Version 2025-08-27) a format may appear in multiple responses.

Path
playoutIdstring(playout identifier)required

The playout identifier (aka tenant identifier) addressing the correct content of the streaming platform. This is typically provided by the service administrator.

Query
providerstring(provider filter)

Filter the episodes for a specific content provider (e.g., "netflix", "hbo"). Use exact match by default. Prepend a tilde ~ for a case insensitive text search (e.g., "~net" will match "Netflix").

movieOrSeriesstring(movie or series name)

Filter the episodes for a movie or series name (exact match, prepend a tilde ~ for a case insensitive text match).

episodestring(episode)

Filter the episodes for a episode name (exact match, prepend a tilde ~ for a case insensitive text match).

targetDevicestring(target device)

Filter the episodes for a target device name (exact match, prepend a tilde ~ for a case insensitive text match).

assetIdstring(asset identifier)

Filter the episodes for the asset identifier (exact match, prepend a tilde ~ for a case insensitive text match).
Since X-API-Version 2025-09-02.

next_tokenstring(Next page token)

The token, which can be used to retrieve the next page of data. Check nextToken in response if another call is required to receive all data.
Available since X-API-Version 2025-08-27

Headers
X-API-Keystring(X-Api-Key)required

Required. API access key for authorized use of the checkout endpoints. Partners, please contact Transfermedia to retrieve a valid key.

X-JAY-TRACKINGstring(X-Jay-Tracking)

Tracking session header for user tracking and analytics. This is set by the /playouts/{playout_id}/tracking/session endpoint.

Example: eyJzZXNzaW9uX2lkIjoiZXhhbXBsZS1zZXNzaW9uLWlkLTEyMzQiLCJzdGFydF90aW1lIjoiMjAyNS0wMS0wMVQxMjowMDowMC4wMDAwMDAiLCJzb3VyY2UiOiJqYXkuYXBpLnBsYXlvdXQuZXhhbXBsZSJ9
curl -i -X GET \
  'https://live.playout.api.jay-metadata.com/v1/playouts/{playoutId}/formats?provider=string&movieOrSeries=string&episode=string&targetDevice=string&assetId=string&next_token=string' \
  -H 'X-API-Key: string' \
  -H 'X-JAY-TRACKING: eyJzZXNzaW9uX2lkIjoiZXhhbXBsZS1zZXNzaW9uLWlkLTEyMzQiLCJzdGFydF90aW1lIjoiMjAyNS0wMS0wMVQxMjowMDowMC4wMDAwMDAiLCJzb3VyY2UiOiJqYXkuYXBpLnBsYXlvdXQuZXhhbXBsZSJ9'

Responses

Successfully retrieved list of formats (aka movie collections or series) with complete metadata

Bodyapplication/json
dataArray of objects(The response data)

The response data.

Example: [{"id":"string","kind":"<<enum 'PlayoutKindType'>>","name":"string","subtitle":"string","description":"string","iconImageCopyright":"string","iconImageUrl":"string","artworkImageCopyright":"string","artworkImageUrl":"string","episodeCount":0,"episodes":[{"episodeId":"string","preview":true,"providerName":"string","movieOrSeriesName":"string","episodeName":"string","targetDeviceName":"string","assetId":"string","intro":{"title":"string","subtitle":"string","description":"string","custom1":"string","custom2":"string","custom3":"string","images":[{"url":"string","copyright":"string"}],"links":[{"url":"string","urlLabel":"string","urlNote":"string","urlImage":{"url":"string","copyright":"string"}}],"language":"string","country":"string"}}]}]
nextTokenstring(Next token)

The token, which can be used to retrieve the next page of data.

errorobject(The error response)

Details of the error that occurred during the API request, including error code and message. This field is only present when the request results in an error.

Response
application/json
{
  "data": [
    { … }
  ]
}

Episodes

Access to episode metadata and general information.

Operations

Episode items

Information about episode items.

Operations

Episode timeline

Information about timeline events with complete timing information.

Operations

Episode groups

Information about existing groups.

Operations

Episode scenes

Information about the scenes.

Operations

Episode companies involved

Information about the involved companies.

Operations

API information

Operations