What can I build with the Kinescope REST API?

The Kinescope API drives the whole video lifecycle: create and upload videos from your backend, poll transcoding status, generate signed and expiring playback URLs, set access rules (domain restrictions, DRM, watermarks) and pull playback analytics. Full reference at docs.kinescope.com.

Which SDKs and languages does Kinescope support?

Open-source player SDKs for iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), Flutter, React, React Native, Vue and Angular — all on GitHub. Web pages embed through the JavaScript IFrame Player API, and any server-side language integrates over the HTTP REST API.

Does Kinescope support webhooks?

Yes. Your backend gets notified when a video changes processing status ( media.update.status) and across the live-stream lifecycle — created, connected, disconnected, finished, cancelled — so you react on the event instead of polling. Payloads are JSON, endpoints just return 200, and failed deliveries are retried. Full event list in the docs.

How do I integrate Kinescope with WordPress, Moodle or another LMS?

There's a dedicated WordPress plugin, and for Moodle, Canvas, Teachable, Udemy and any embed-friendly platform the protected embed code drops straight in — no plugin for you or the viewer. For a custom stack the REST API and webhooks cover upload, embed, playback events and access control, and you can wire events into a CRM through Zapier or n8n.

What does the upload-to-playback flow look like?

Three steps: create a video and upload the source through the API or an SDK; Kinescope transcodes it into adaptive renditions (up to 4K) automatically; then serve it with a signed, expiring playback URL or the embed. DRM, domain rules and watermarks are flags on the same call — the exact requests are in the docs.

curl -X POST https://uploader.kinescope.io/v2/video \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $KINESCOPE_API_TOKEN" \ -H "X-Parent-ID: $PARENT_ID" \ -H "X-Video-Title: Lesson 1" \ -H "X-Video-URL: https://example.com/lesson-1.mp4"

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SDKs for Swift, Kotlin, React, Vue, and REST API allow you to create video solutions with Kinescope and integrate video into apps and portals. See how the API works end to end in our video hosting API guide, and find install commands for every SDK, webhooks and the MCP server in the developer hub.

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Open-source player SDKs

Drop the Kinescope player into any stack with a native SDK, or reach everything else through the REST API and the JavaScript IFrame Player API. Every SDK is open-source on GitHub.

Player SDK	Language	Repository
iOS	Swift	ios-kinescope-player
Android	Kotlin	kotlin-kinescope-player
Flutter	Dart	flutter-kinescope-player
React	TypeScript	react-kinescope-player
React Native	TypeScript	react-native-kinescope-video
Vue	JavaScript	vue-kinescope-player
Angular	TypeScript	angular-kinescope-player

Open-source repositories on GitHub: iOS, Android, Flutter, React, React Native, Vue and Angular.

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“I log into the Kinescope dashboard maybe once a year. Everything runs through the API — it just works”

Mathijs de Ruiter, Co-founder, JoJoschool (80,000 students · moved from Vimeo to Kinescope)

Proz Educação — Felipe Do Espirito Santo, Head of Technology

“Kinescope sent us ready-made code examples before anything was signed, so the integration already had a head start. The transfer itself took about a week”

Felipe Do Espirito Santo, Head of Technology, Proz Educação (1 TB video library · moved from Vimeo to Kinescope)

Conted Tech — Hikaro Queiroz, Director of Pedagogy and Operations

“We'd put off leaving Vimeo for years, afraid the migration would swallow our small dev team. 1,500 of our courses were locked to Vimeo in a tool we'd stopped using — Kinescope wrote the script we couldn't, and moved all of them across. We were sure it would take a long time, and instead it took a week or two”

Hikaro Queiroz, Director of Pedagogy and Operations, Conted Tech (1,500 courses · moved from Vimeo to Kinescope)

“With Kinescope we get a convenient API, a human touch, stable performance, and fair prices. The subtitles come out at a really good level right away — you don't even need to correct them. We threw our own pipeline out. Who would've thought?”

Denis Korovkin, LMS team lead, EBAC (170,000 paid learners · moved from Kaltura to Kinescope)

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A basic integration — upload, transcode, embed — is an afternoon of work through the API. Ready-made SDKs cover the common paths so most teams ship a working player the same day.

Web, iOS and Android, with SDKs in Swift and Kotlin among others. Anything not covered by an SDK is reachable through the HTTP API.

Yes. The SDKs, API, transcoding and CDN delivery are built and operated by Kinescope, so there is no third-party vendor in the path when something needs fixing.

Yes. Uploads, transcoding and playback configuration are all API-driven, so videos can be created and published without anyone opening the dashboard.

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Trusted by more than 6,000 clients in 48 countries and counting

Integrate video API and player into your stack — no extra dev work

Build video-powered products your way

Production-ready video infrastructure — owned and operated by Kinescope

Own cloud infrastructure

Experienced support

Open-source player SDKs

“I log into the Kinescope dashboard maybe once a year. Everything runs through the API — it just works”

“Kinescope sent us ready-made code examples before anything was signed, so the integration already had a head start. The transfer itself took about a week”

“With Kinescope we get a convenient API, a human touch, stable performance, and fair prices. The subtitles come out at a really good level right away — you don't even need to correct them. We threw our own pipeline out. Who would've thought?”

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How do I integrate Kinescope with WordPress, Moodle or another LMS?

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