aid: dacast
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dacast/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Dacast
kind: company
description: Dacast is a unified live streaming and video hosting (OTT) platform that
  lets businesses broadcast live channels, host and monetize video on demand (VOD),
  organize content into playlists, and embed a white-label HTML5 player. Dacast
  exposes a RESTful JSON API (base https://developer.dacast.com/v2) for programmatically
  creating live channels, uploading and managing VOD, building playlists, and reading
  viewer analytics. API requests authenticate with an X-Api-Key header. API access
  is gated to Scale and Custom plans (trial accounts can request temporary access
  from sales), so the endpoints below are grounded in Dacast's public developer docs
  but several exact paths beyond the confirmed /v2/channel, /v2/vod, and /v2/playlist
  are honestly modeled.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Live Streaming
- Video
- VOD
- OTT
- Video Hosting
- Media
- Analytics
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: dacast:dacast-vod-api
  name: Dacast VOD API
  tags:
  - VOD
  - Video
  - Upload
  - Content Management
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/vod-upload
  baseURL: https://developer.dacast.com/v2
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/make-your-first-api-call
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/vod-upload
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/dacast-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: Create, list, look up, and delete video-on-demand assets, and upload
    source files. Uploads work by requesting a signed upload target (POST /v2/vod)
    and pushing the file to Dacast storage, with multi-part upload and bulk upload
    flows for large libraries. Exact list/lookup/delete paths beyond the confirmed
    upload-signature endpoint are modeled from the developer docs.
- aid: dacast:dacast-live-channels-api
  name: Dacast Live Channels API
  tags:
  - Live Streaming
  - Channels
  - Simulcast
  - RTMP
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/create-live-streams-channels
  baseURL: https://developer.dacast.com/v2
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/create-live-streams-channels
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/dacast-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: Create and manage live streaming channels (POST /v2/channel), look up
    a stream, list online streams, switch stream ingest, change channel type, and
    manage simulcast destinations that restream to third-party targets. Ingest is
    RTMP/SRT push, not a Dacast-hosted API transport. Channel creation is confirmed;
    the remaining operation paths are modeled from the developer docs.
- aid: dacast:dacast-playlists-api
  name: Dacast Playlists API
  tags:
  - Playlists
  - Content Organization
  - VOD
  - Live Streaming
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/playlists
  baseURL: https://developer.dacast.com/v2
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/playlists
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/dacast-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: Create playlists (POST /v2/playlist), retrieve a playlist
    (GET /v2/playlist/{playlistId}), and set playlist contents by mixing VOD and
    live channel items. Playlist updates are a replace-in-place operation - the full
    content array is submitted on each change. Create and get are confirmed; the
    set-content and delete paths are modeled from the developer docs.
- aid: dacast:dacast-analytics-api
  name: Dacast Analytics API
  tags:
  - Analytics
  - Viewership
  - Reporting
  - Metrics
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.dacast.com/support/knowledgebase/walkthrough-to-per-content-video-analytics-on-dacast/
  baseURL: https://developer.dacast.com/v2
  properties:
  - url: https://www.dacast.com/support/knowledgebase/new-analytics-dashboard/
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/dacast-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: Read raw viewer analytics - views, watch time, bandwidth, and geography
    per content item and per account - so you can build custom reporting on top of
    Dacast VOD and live streaming. Dacast documents analytics export via the API, but
    exact endpoint paths and query parameters are not published; the operations here
    are honestly modeled and flagged as unconfirmed.
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dacast-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/dacast-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dacast
- type: Website
  url: https://www.dacast.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.dacast.com
- type: Plans
  url: plans/dacast-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/dacast-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/dacast-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com