API Reference
  1. Assets

Create Asset

post
https://api.mediasilo.com/v3/assets

Creates a new asset in MediaSilo

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Creates a new asset in MediaSilo based on an http accessible file.

What happens on Create Asset

MediaSilo will perform a HEAD check on the sourceURL and respond with a 400 error if the file is not accessible. Once a file has been transferred by MediaSilo it is added to the encoding queue which performs the necessary file processing.

Body Params
string
required

ID of the project

string

ID of a folder within a project.

string

used as the assets display name. different from the file name.

string

name used for the asset when it is downloaded. this needs to include the file extension

string
string
required

Must be a publicly-accessible URL

tags
array of strings

Tags

tags
string

ID of the asset being versioned. This asset will become the inactive version while the new asset being created will become the active version.

string
Defaults to Timestamp of when the version was created: "Version:13-11-2017 04:48:41.294"

Name given to the new version.

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