JW Player

aid: jwplayer
name: JW Player
description: >-
  JW Player is a video player and streaming platform offering REST APIs for
  media management, playlist creation, player configuration, analytics,
  and live stream orchestration. The Management API v2 provides programmatic
  control over your media library, players, advertising, DRM, webhooks, and
  live broadcasts. The Delivery API enables high-availability content embedding,
  playback metadata, streaming manifests, and SSAI configuration via CDN.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jwplayer/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: "2026-06-12"
modified: "2026-06-12"
specificationVersion: "0.19"
tags:
  - Video
  - Streaming
  - Media Management
  - Live Streaming
  - OTT
  - Playlists
  - Analytics
  - DRM
  - Advertising
  - Webhooks
  - Player

apis:
  - name: JW Player Management API v2
    description: >-
      Read-write REST API for programmatically managing your JWP media library,
      players, playlists, live streams, advertising configurations, DRM policies,
      transformations, and webhooks. Authenticated via Bearer token with a
      60 requests/minute rate limit.
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://docs.jwplayer.com/platform/reference/developer-tools
    baseURL: https://api.jwplayer.com/v2
    tags:
      - Media Management
      - Live Streaming
      - Playlists
      - Players
      - Advertising
      - DRM
      - Webhooks
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.jwplayer.com/platform/reference/developer-tools
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://docs.jwplayer.com/platform/reference/authentication

  - name: JW Player Delivery API
    description: >-
      High-availability CDN-backed API for content embedding, playback metadata
      retrieval, poster images, streaming manifests, and server-side ad insertion
      (SSAI) configuration. Optimized for global scale with short caching.
      Calls do not count toward the Management API rate limit.
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://docs.jwplayer.com/platform/reference/developer-tools
    baseURL: https://cdn.jwplayer.com
    tags:
      - Video Delivery
      - Playback
      - Streaming
      - SSAI
      - CDN
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.jwplayer.com/platform/reference/developer-tools

  - name: JW Player JavaScript Player API
    description: >-
      Client-side JavaScript API for controlling the JW Player embedded in web
      pages. Exposes methods and events for playback control, configuration,
      playlist management, advertising, and analytics integrations.
    image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://docs.jwplayer.com/players/reference/javascript-player-api-introduction
    baseURL: https://cdn.jwplayer.com
    tags:
      - JavaScript
      - Player
      - Playback
      - Web
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.jwplayer.com/players/reference/javascript-player-api-introduction

common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://jwplayer.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.jwplayer.com
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/jwplayer
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jwplayer
  - type: Blog
    url: https://jwx.com/blog
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://jwx.com/video-management-delivery-pricing
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://status.jwplayer.com
  - type: X
    url: https://twitter.com/jwdevelopers
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/jwplayer-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/jwplayer-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/jwplayer-finops.yml
  - type: BlogRSS
    url: https://jwx.com/blog/rss.xml
  - type: Blogs
    url: blogs/blogs.json
  - type: JsonLd
    url: json-ld/jwplayer-context.jsonld

maintainers:
  - name: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]