Brightcove
Brightcove is an online video platform providing REST APIs for uploading and managing videos, encoding, CDN delivery, player configuration, analytics, and live streaming management. Its Video Cloud platform serves media companies, broadcasters, marketers, and OTT providers globally.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Brightcove the way a machine reads it — 62 machine-readable artifacts across 53 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Brightcove scores 40.7/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Brightcove
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Brightcove. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 53
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Brightcove Dynamic Ingest API
Handles ingestion of videos and media assets into Video Cloud, supporting remote URL ingestion and upload from local files.
Brightcove Analytics API
Retrieves analytics data programmatically for Video Cloud accounts, including dimensions like device type, geography, player, and video performance metrics.
Brightcove Playback API
Fetches video and playlist data for players and mobile apps, providing optimized delivery of media metadata and playback URLs.
Brightcove Player Management API
Creates, edits, and manages Brightcove players as publishable resources with full configuration control.
Brightcove Live API
Creates and manages live streams with comprehensive streaming controls including RTMP, RTP, RTP-FEC, and SRT input protocols and HLS output delivery.
Brightcove OAuth API
Implements OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow for managing credentials and obtaining access tokens for all Brightcove REST APIs.
Brightcove SSAI API
Enables server-side ad stitching directly into video streams, supporting VOD and live stream monetization with seamless ad insertion.
Brightcove Ingest Profiles API
Manages profiles that define video processing during ingestion, controlling encoding settings and rendition creation.
Brightcove Delivery Rules API
Customizes media delivery to meet specific business objectives, enabling conditional logic for rendition selection and CDN routing.
Brightcove Cloud Playout APIs
Manages cloud-based linear channel playout with EPG (Electronic Programming Guide) and Channels APIs for scheduled programming.
Brightcove Audience API
Retrieves viewing event and lead data for marketing automation workflows, enabling integration with MAP and CRM platforms.
Brightcove Social API
Retrieves social sharing status and history for videos distributed to social media platforms.
Brightcove Playback Restrictions API
Provides scalable playback management including DRM, concurrency controls, and geographic and domain restrictions.
Brightcove Access Tokens API
Get access tokens to authenticate API requests.
Brightcove Account Configuration API
Operations for managing default profiles for the account.
Brightcove Ad Call Tracking API
Operations for tracking ad calls - used primarily for debugging.
Brightcove Ad Configurations API
Operations for managing ad configurations.
Brightcove Analytics Report API
Full analytics reports with many options for filtering, date ranges, formats, and more.
Brightcove Clear-Sources API
Clear_sources endpoints expose unencrypted sources to the preview players in the studio for customers who are using [Playback Rights](/playback-restrictions/references/index.htm...
Brightcove Client Credentials API
Create client credentials needed to get access tokens.
Brightcove Credentials API
Operations for creating and managing credentials for secure destinations.
Brightcove Custom Fields API
Operations for creating and managing custom fields.
Brightcove Delivery Rule Actions API
Operations for creating, reading, updating and deleting Delivery Rule Actions
Brightcove Delivery Rule Conditions API
Operations for reading and updating Delivery Rule Conditions
Brightcove Delivery Rules API
Operations for reading Delivery Rules
Brightcove Embed Configurations API
Operations for managing player embed (child player) configurations.
Brightcove Engagement Report API
Detailed engagement reports by account, video or player. Detailed engagement is available only for the most recent 32 days.
Brightcove Folders API
Operations for managing folders to organize your videos.
Brightcove History API
Operations for getting the history of all or a specific video.
Brightcove Ingest API
The Ingest API from Brightcove — 2 operation(s) for ingest.
Brightcove Labels API
Operations for managing folders to organize your videos. See [Working with Labels](/cms/managing-videos/working-with-labels.html) for more information.
Brightcove Leads API
Get leads for a Video Cloud account.
Brightcove Live Analytics API
Analytics for Live streams
Brightcove Live Job Clip API
Operations for creating and managing VOD clips, including scheduling clips for SEP jobs
Brightcove Live Jobs API
Operations for creating live jobs, listing live jobs, getting job details, and canceling live jobs. There are also operations for activating and deactivating SEP jobs, schedulin...
Brightcove Media Assets API
Operations for managing renditions, manifests, and other media assets. These operations are used mainly for remote assets.
Brightcove Media Sharing API
Operations for creating and managing hierarchical labels that can be associated with videos.
Brightcove Notifications API
Operations for setting up and managing notifications of changes to your video library.
Brightcove Player Configurations API
Operations for managing player configurations.
Brightcove Player Embeds API
Operations for managing player embeds (child players).
Brightcove Players API
Operations for managing players.
Brightcove Playlists API
Operations for managing video playlists.
Brightcove Plugin Registry API
Operations for working with the player plugin registry.
Brightcove Profiles API
Operations creating and managing ingest profiles.
Brightcove Redundant Groups API
Operations for creating redundant groups of live jobs for failover in case one stream fails
Brightcove RTMP Outputs API
Operations for creating and managing RTMP outputs. Note that RTMP output hours will be billed against event hours.
Brightcove Schedule Clip API
Operations for scheduling the creation of a VOD clip for SEP jobs only.
Brightcove Schedule SEP Job Start Stop API
Operations for scheduling the activation and deactivation of an SEP job.
Brightcove SSAI API
Operations for managing server-side ad insertion with live streams.
Brightcove Status API
Operations for getting the status of all or a specific video.
Brightcove Video Data API
Low latency endpoints for quickly retrieving a single piece of data.
Brightcove Videos API
Operations for managing videos, video metadata, audio tracks, and more.
Brightcove View Events API
Get view events for a Video Cloud account
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GraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
Brightcove GraphQL API
Brightcove is a cloud video platform for businesses. The API covers video ingestion and management, player configuration, dynamic delivery, analytics, social sharing, live strea...
GRAPHQLPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Brightcove Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Brightcove Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Brightcove — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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