Revolutionize Your User Engagement with our Video API!

API stands for Application Programming Interface, which is a set of programming tools and protocols that allow developers to integrate one application’s capabilities into a website, service, or another application.

Thus, a video API is an API that allows developers to integrate video conferencing/communication functionalities into a website, app, or service.

It enables the user to perform real-time video (and audio) interactions to conduct video calls, video conferences, or other video-related functionalities on the website or app without having to develop the video conferencing infrastructure from scratch.

Basically, a video API saves the time and resources otherwise required to enable video conferencing features on a platform.

A video API acts like a “bridge” between two applications.

When you use a video API, your application (your website, mobile app, etc.) sends requests to the video API’s server (i.e., iotum’s server.) The requests happen over WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) technology to establish secure real-time communication between the two applications. 

The video API server then processes the requests and sends back responses, which can be video streams, audio streams, video call metadata, or other data. 

The communications between the two applications allow the application to “borrow” the video functionalities of the video API.

There are many benefits of using a video API compared to building your own video infrastructure from scratch or purchasing a standalone video application. These benefits include: 

• Reduced development costs: Compared to building your own video conferencing functionality from scratch, using a video API is much more cost-effective. 
• Reduced time to market: Since you don’t need to develop your own video infrastructure, you can launch the video conferencing feature to your users much faster with a video API.
• Improved scalability: Using a video API is much more scalable than having your own video infrastructure. When you need to accommodate more users, for example, you can simply upgrade your video API plan rather than having to buy new servers.
• Increased reliability: Reputable video APIs like iotum are maintained and constantly updated by experienced teams of developers and engineers, so your video conferencing functionality will always be reliable and available for your users. When you have your own video API, you have to perform the maintenance yourself.

While the ease of using video APIs will depend on the provider and the complexity of your project, most video APIs are designed to be intuitive and easy to use.

iotum offers developer-friendly tools with comprehensive documentation, making it easy for developers to integrate video functionalities into their applications via iotum’s video API.

Video API has a wide range of use cases that may benefit your needs, including:

• Video conferencing

You can use video APIs to create a video conferencing solution for various applications on your business (online meetings, remote learning, online customer support, etc.) without having to build the infrastructure from scratch. 

• Live streaming

Video APIs allow you to live broadcast your video content to your audience. 

• Video chat

You can use a video API to create a video chat solution for your business, which you can then use to enable real-time video conversations for your team or to facilitate online video customer support.

• Video surveillance

You can use video APIs to create video surveillance solutions that allow you to monitor remote locations using cameras. 

These are just a few examples of the many different ways that video APIs can be used. As we can see, the applications of video APIs are highly versatile and can offer improved interactivity, user engagement, and real-time communication across a wide variety of industries.

A good video API should have the following qualities: 

• Reliability: the video API should provide reliable video functionalities that can handle your expected user load.
• Ease of use: the video API should be accompanied by comprehensive documentation and should be easy to set up and integrate into your application.
• Scalable: the video API should be able to handle a growing number of users and sessions. 
• Customization: you should be able to customize the video API to align with your specific use case and to match your brand identity.
• Cost-effectiveness: Competitive and flexible pricing to accommodate your current and future budget.
• Security: Adequate security measures to ensure optimal data security, privacy, and integrity.