Video Engagement Data

Our Video REST APIs give you access to data that makes up the Chartbeat Video Dashboard. Make an HTTP GET request to the endpoints below to return data encoded in JSON.

Video Engagement Data API endpoints are usable only to customers with our Video add-on integrated.

Top Video

GET https://api.chartbeat.com/live/video/videos/v1/

This live API call returns the top videos on your site.

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
apikey	string	NOTE: Your API key should no longer be set as a query param; instead, pass it in the HTTP header
host	string	The site ID of the Site you are querying, prepended with video@ (e.g. [email protected])
limit	integer	20 is the default limit of videos to return, but this can be increased or decreased.

200

{
    data: {
        items: [
            {
                path: "video_content_id_12345", //The path that is being passed to Chartbeat to identify the video.
                stats: {
                    visitors: 3063, //The number of people who have loaded the video.
                    watching: 2736 //The number of people who have loaded this video and are watching now
                },
                thumbnail: "https://www.mysite.com/thumbnail-11.jpg", //The URL being passed to Chartbeat for the thumbnail image.
                title: "My Great Video!" //The video title.
            },
    {
                path: "video_content_id_09876",
                stats: {
                    visitors: 1695,
                    watching: 1523
                },
                thumbnail: "https://www.mysite.com/thumbnail-22.jpg",
                title: "Must Watch: The President Said What?!"
                },
    {
                path: "video_content_id_45678",
                stats: {
                    visitors: 1588,
                    watching: 1412
                    },
                thumbnail: "https://www.mysite.com/thumbnail-33.jpg",
                title: "Our Top 10 Favorite Seinfeld Episodes"
            },
{...}            

Video Metrics

GET https://api.chartbeat.com/live/metrics/

This call gives detailed information for a specific video. If no video path is specified, all metrics reflect the top results for the aggregate of all videos.

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
apikey	string	Your API key.
host	string	The site ID of the Site you are querying, prepended with video@ (e.g. [email protected]).
names	string	Can be a comma-delineated list of any of the metrics in the table below.
path	string	The path that is being passed to Chartbeat to identify the video (Not the path of the page the video is on).

200 Example response for call with names=video_title,video_duration applied as a query parameter with metrics.

{
    metrics:{
        video_duration: {
                count: 13988,
                max: 11983253.3,
                sum: 2374541830.886638,
                min: 0,
                mean: 169755.6356081383
        },
        video_title:{
            count: 15242,
            unique_max: 2756,
            top:{
                My Great Movie: 463,
                Watch Now: Live With Mr News: 173,
                Poll Predicts Landslide Victory: 799,
                New Video Shows Shocking Car Chase: 164,
                Hilarious Security Footage: 222
            },
            unique: 2756,
            unique_min: 298
        }
    }
}

Optional "names" values	Metric Definitions
video_duration	Video length (in milliseconds)
video_title	The video title
video_page	Path of the page(s) the video is on
video_host	Host domain of the page(s) where the video is being played
video_state	Array of the number of visitors in different video states in the format: [unplayed, playing, paused, completed]