What are the best Video APIs? (2026)

Real-time communication platform (China HQ, global) — video calls, live streaming, interactive whiteboard, recording

Alibaba's live streaming — real-time transcoding, time-shift, recording, global CDN distribution

Game Of Thrones API

api.video is an API that encodes on the go to facilitate immediate playback, enhancing viewer streaming experiences across multiple devices and platforms. You can stream live or on-demand online vi...

China's YouTube for anime and gaming culture — videos, danmaku, user data, favorites

The Bob's Burgers API contains data for hundreds of characters, episodes, running gags, and images from the show

Breaking Bad API

Some Breaking Bad quotes

Get episode, cast and crew data from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

These endpoints constitute the functionality exposed by Bungie.net, both for more traditional website functionality and for connectivity to Bungie video games and their related functionality.

Doctor Who API

Compress video files through an asynchronous workflow, a practical API for large-scale or long-duration videos / tasks

TV programme of Czech TV

Dailymotion Developer API

China's IMDb equivalent — movie info, cast, search, charts and ratings from Douban

TikTok's Chinese platform API — content publishing, user auth, data analytics, live streaming, e-commerce

A simple API which provides you with book, character, movie and quotes JSON data

Unofficial Eurovision Song Contest API

This API helps you extract audio from any video at scale

Final Space API

Some Game of Thrones quotes

Scale to 100+ million viewers and beyond. Stream everything from online games to online events reliably in minutes instead of months.

This API generates image thumbnails from any input video file, in the desired size (pixels). The API supports multiple video formats including MP4, WEBM, FLV, AVI, MKV, MOV and 3GP

This API helps you generate GIF from any video

Harry Potter Characters Data with with imagery

Video To API. Get video or audio and metadata for all video platforms with one provider.

China's leading game live streaming platform — stream data, chat, extensions, monetization APIs

API for receiving movie, serial and cast information

API for receiving movie, serial and cast information

Unofficial IMDb Movie / Series Information

China's Netflix — danmaku (bullet comments), video hosting, HD streaming, app distribution

Create and edit videos programmatically: watermarks,resizing,slideshows,voice-over,text animations

China's #2 short video platform — content management, e-commerce, live streaming, OAuth login

Returns Lucifer quotes

China's largest movie ticketing platform — showtimes, theaters, seat selection

A Countdown to the next MCU Film

Random Movie and Series Quotes

Movie information

A router of public health data from multiple senders and receivers

FFmpeg API

Television

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition from Star Trek with episode references

Movie, TV and Anime data

Sohu's video platform API — content categories, video details, album info, search

Get some quotes from South Park, mmkay!

Information on all things Star Trek

Info and data from the Star Wars databank in the form of an API

Returns Stranger Things quotes

Czech internet television, films, series and online videos for free

Returns Stromberg quotes and more

100+ Supernatural quotes

All the Star Wars data you've ever wanted

Star Wars GraphQL API

Tencent's live streaming service — low-latency broadcasting, transcoding, recording, content moderation

The Lord of the Rings API

TV Show Data

Game Of Thrones Characters Data with imagery

Community-based movie data

Easily embed trailers from TrailerAddict

Movie and TV Data

Television data

TV Show Data

Unofficial Netflix Online Global Search, Search all netflix regions in one place

Create Video Thumbnails from any video or URL

API for finding out the streaming availability of movies & shows

API generates various Web Series Quote Images

Alibaba's video platform (China's YouTube) — content, search, recommendations, uploads with SDKs

Add YouTube functionality to your sites and apps