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Overview of the Truveo Video Search APIs
The Truveo video search engine is an index containing millions of video files that are available on the Internet.
This index is continuously updated, cleaned and expanded to include the latest videos from the most popular
video destinations on the Web. The Truveo video search APIs provide a programmatic interface to access this index
and build applications that feature video search results. The rich functionality of these APIs enables you to build a wide variety
of video-based web applications. For example,
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Turn your website into the ultimate destination for online video by putting millions of videos at your users' fingertips.
Our APIs make it easy for you to create search functionality that will let users find video located either in your own video library or on
thousands of websites across the Internet.
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Enhance your existing website with relevant video clips. Our APIs can be used to identify videos relevant to a particular topic.
Links to these videos can be placed alongside other content on your website to build a more engaging experience.
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Build an online community for sharing video. Our APIs provide a range of features that allow users to easily save and share favorite videos
and watchlists. These personalization features provide a simple and powerful framework for building a thriving online video community.
The Truveo Video Search APIs come in four flavors: XML, AJAX, Flash, and Ruby. The XML API allows users to submit REST-style queries and receive XML-formatted results to standard HTTP GET requests.
The AJAX API runs in the browser and lets client applications access video search results directly from JavaScript.
The Flash API runs in Macromedia Flash and allows Flash applications to access video search results. The Ruby API is a mapping of the
XML API for use in Ruby programs.
To get started using these APIs, please
first review the documentation on building search queries. This documentation describes the range of query expressions
supported by all APIs and illustrates a variety of techniques for retrieving targeted video search results. Once you have familiarized yourself
with the search query syntax, you can review the XML API documentation, the AJAX API documentation, the Flash API documentation, and the Ruby API documentation.
This documentation will describe how to formulate and submit API calls as well as how to retrieve
and handle search results.
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