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Shotstack

Cloud video automation API for video and audio renders, templates, workflows, ingested media, and timeline editing.

Helps video automation pipelines that build templates and workflows, render edits to video or audio, and clean up ingested media when done.

Example Use Cases

These are the Shotstack actions Snow can use when building apps with you. Connecting an account does not make Snow run these on its own.

Create Template (v2)

Tool to save an Edit as a re-usable template. Templates can be retrieved and modified before rendering. Use when you want to create a template with merge fields for dynamic content.

Get Asset

Tool to fetch details of a hosted asset by its unique identifier. Use when you need to retrieve information about videos, images, audio files, thumbnails, or poster images hosted on Shotstack's CDN.

Get Assets by Render ID

Tool to retrieve hosted assets by render ID. Use when you need to fetch one or more files (video, thumbnail, poster image) generated by a specific render job.

Get Render Status

Tool to retrieve the current status and details of a Shotstack render job by render ID. Use when polling a render until done or failed, typically after creating a render with SHOTSTACK_RENDER_VIDEO.

Get Template By Version

Tool to retrieve a template by template id and API version. Use when you need to fetch template details from a specific Edit API version.

Get Upload URL

Tool to request a signed URL for direct file upload to Shotstack. Use when you need to upload a file to Shotstack storage. The response returns a signed URL that you use to upload the file using a PUT request with the binary file.

List Sources (with Environment)

Tool to list all ingested source files with environment selection. Use when you need to retrieve sources from stage (sandbox) or v1 (production) environment with optional pagination.

List Templates with Environment

Tool to list all Shotstack templates for the specified environment. Use when you need to retrieve templates from a specific environment (stage or production).

Request Upload URL

Tool to request a signed URL for direct file upload. Use when you need to upload a file to Shotstack storage. The response returns a signed URL that expires in one hour.

Transfer Asset

Tool to transfer a file from any publicly available URL to one or more Serve API destinations. Use when you need to copy a file from an external source to Shotstack's hosting service or other configured destinations.