We have just extended our APIs to let systems integrated with Mediagenix On-Demand interact with VOD rules. This note describes this change in full, and as usual you can contact support or your Technical Account Manager for further clarification.
If you’re a broadcaster, you probably ❤️ VOD rules in Mediagenix On-Demand! VOD rules are what makes catch-up scheduling so efficient. With just a few clicks, a scheduler using the catch-up scheduling add-on in Mediagenix On-Demand can set VOD rules such as: “Show all episodes of Mad Men, Season 5, on my iOS service, immediately after the first transmission on my linear channel, and for 30-day catch-up.”
At Mediagenix On-Demand, we love machines almost as much as humans. If a scheduler can manage VOD rules in the Mediagenix On-Demand user interface, we thought there is no reason why an external system couldn’t do the same via our APIs. So we have extended our APIs, so that a system integrated with Mediagenix On-Demand can now Create, Read, Update or Delete VOD rules. The technical documentation describing how to do so is available online at http://docs.bebanjo.com/sections/movida-metadata-api/rule The usual REST conventions of our APIs apply, and you’ll notice that you can even assign an external-id to a VOD rule, to make it easy to track it across multiple systems.
Here is a new way to extend and customise Mediagenix On-Demand via the Mediagenix On-Demand APIs. Don’t do anything too crazy with it!
References
movida#5423Enable CRUD of VOD Rules via the API