aid: coconut
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/coconut/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Coconut
kind: company
description: Coconut is a cloud video and audio encoding/transcoding service. The
  Coconut API v2 lets developers submit a single asynchronous job that transcodes
  source media into multiple formats, packages adaptive HLS/MPEG-DASH streams, and
  generates thumbnails and GIF animations, delivering results to cloud storage and
  reporting progress through webhooks.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Video
- Audio
- Encoding
- Transcoding
- Media
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: coconut:coconut-jobs-api
  name: Coconut Jobs API
  tags:
  - Jobs
  - Encoding
  - Transcoding
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/api
  baseURL: https://api.coconut.co/v2
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/api
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/api
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/coconut-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/coconut.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  - url: collections/coconut.opencollection.json
    type: OpenCollection
  description: Create an asynchronous encoding job with a single request - specify
    an input source, storage destination, output formats (MP4, WebM, HLS, MPEG-DASH,
    thumbnails, GIF), and a webhook notification - then retrieve the job and its
    status and progress.
- aid: coconut:coconut-metadata-api
  name: Coconut Metadata API
  tags:
  - Metadata
  - Streams
  - Probe
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.coconut.co/metadata/api
  baseURL: https://api.coconut.co/v2
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.coconut.co/metadata/api
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.coconut.co/metadata/api
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/coconut-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/coconut.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  - url: collections/coconut.opencollection.json
    type: OpenCollection
  description: Retrieve technical metadata (codec, stream, and format details) for
    the input source and output files of a completed job, for all keys or a specific
    output key.
- aid: coconut:coconut-webhooks-api
  name: Coconut Webhooks API
  tags:
  - Webhooks
  - Notifications
  - Events
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/notification
  baseURL: https://api.coconut.co/v2
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/notification
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/notification
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/coconut-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/coconut.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  - url: collections/coconut.opencollection.json
    type: OpenCollection
  description: Configured per job via the notification object, Coconut POSTs JSON
    event payloads (input.transferred, output.completed, output.failed, job.completed,
    job.failed) to a caller-supplied URL, optionally including per-event and metadata
    detail.
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/opencoconut
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coconut-co
- type: Website
  url: https://www.coconut.co
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.coconut.co
- type: Plans
  url: plans/coconut-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/coconut-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/coconut-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com