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Developers leverage our powerful infrastructure, APIs, and tools to help launch awesome video apps and experiences.

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The complete developer toolkit for building and launching amazing video streaming products.

Tap into our robust set of developer tools to help you go to market more quickly and easily.
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The complete developer toolkit for building and launching amazing video streaming products.
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We GET /live_events

We believe in the power of using elegant code to simplify complex problems. Backlight Streaming provides easy to use API endpoints to build typically challenging workflows like creating, scheduling, and archiving Live Events through a single API call. Check out the example below.

Protecting valuable video content for:

Robust Video Infrastructure

We've taken care of all the heavy lifting from enterprise-class storage, encoding, and streaming, so you can focus on architecture, design, and user experience.

World Class APIs

Build with our video APIs and gain control over the whole video lifecycle, from metadata & curation, to authentication & authorization, video playback experience, and more.
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Reference Apps & SDKs

Our reference video apps and SDKs provide the foundation and plumbing needed for developers to launch more quickly, test ideas, iterate, and engage viewers.
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Quickstart & developer guides

Start leveraging our APIs and tools to develop more quickly and easily.
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Webhooks for Automated Workflows

Our Webhook Service allows developers to receive webhook notifications at a target URL / server of their choosing based on common events within our streaming platform.

This helps developers create powerful integrations such as easily syncing data between our streaming platform and their own databases, or triggering updates to consumer-facing applications based on webhook events.

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Low friction live events

Low friction live events

Live Events APIs provide comprehensive access to launching awesome live streaming products.
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Authentication and entitlements simplified

Working with our OAuth and Entitlements APIs allow you to provide rich, custom authentication and authorization experiences to your viewers.
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