generated: '2026-08-14'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://docs.wistia.com/docs/player-quick-start,
  https://docs.wistia.com/docs/player-embed-api,
  https://docs.wistia.com/docs/aurora-player-version-pinning,
  https://docs.wistia.com/docs/uploader,
  https://docs.wistia.com/docs/wistia-chooser,
  https://docs.wistia.com/docs/transcript-embeds,
  https://docs.wistia.com/docs/wistia-and-oembed,
  https://docs.wistia.com/llms.txt
description: >-
  Wistia's client-side surface is as large as its REST surface and is a distinct product from the
  Data API: embeddable players, hosted pickers and uploaders, and a plugin framework. The current
  generation, Aurora, is a standards-based custom element — `<wistia-player>` — with a React
  wrapper, replacing the legacy Vulcan player and its E-v1.js loader. Wistia documents a migration
  path between the two generations, which is the right thing to look for when judging whether a
  component library is maintained or merely present.
families:
- name: Aurora Player
  kind: web-component
  status: current
  element: <wistia-player media-id="abc123"></wistia-player>
  packages:
  - '@wistia/wistia-player'
  - '@wistia/wistia-player-react'
  loaders:
  - name: player.js
    url: https://fast.wistia.com/player.js
    pinning: >-
      Optional @<version> suffix (player.js@1.2.3, player.js@latest); the default in-app embed code
      is unpinned and always follows the newest release. Works on both fast.wistia.com (standard)
      and fast.wistia.net (iframe).
  - name: per-media loader
    url: https://fast.wistia.com/embed/{mediaHashedId}.js
    note: Loaded as type="module" alongside player.js in the standard embed code.
  surfaces:
  - Embed API — options, events, methods (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/player-embed-api)
  - Player events (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/player-events)
  - Player methods (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/player-methods)
  - Attributes and properties (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/player-attributes-and-properties)
  - Popover Player API (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/player-popover-embed-api)
  - React component (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/player-react-component)
  - Version pinning (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/aurora-player-version-pinning)
- name: Legacy player (Vulcan) + E-v1.js
  kind: javascript-library
  status: legacy
  migration: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/migrating-from-the-legacy-player-vulcan-to-aurora
  surfaces:
  - JavaScript Player API (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/javascript-player-api)
  - Embed options and plugins (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/embed-options-and-plugins)
  - iFrame embed options (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/iframe-embed-options)
  - Popover options and API (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/popover-embed-customization)
  - Plugin API (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/plugin-api)
  - Player Controls Framework (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/player-controls-framework)
  - Player Privacy Mode (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/player-privacy-mode)
  - All About E-v1.js (https://docs.wistia.com/docs/all-about-e-v1)
  disambiguation: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/which-player-should-i-use
- name: Wistia Uploader
  kind: hosted-widget
  status: current
  url: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/uploader
  description: >-
    Drop-in uploader that enables video upload directly from a host application into Wistia, without
    the host handling the file transfer.
- name: Wistia Chooser
  kind: hosted-widget
  status: current
  url: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/wistia-chooser
  description: >-
    A picker that lets a person browse their Wistia library from outside the Wistia app and embed or
    share a video.
- name: Channel Embeds
  kind: embed
  status: current
  url: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/channel-embeds
  description: Embedded channel galleries with a Channel API for embed options.
- name: Transcript Embeds
  kind: embed
  status: current
  url: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/transcript-embeds
  description: Embeds a media's transcript alongside the player.
- name: Embed Links
  kind: embed
  status: current
  url: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/embed-links
  description: >-
    Playlists, chaptering, "watch another video" and choose-your-own-adventure navigation with no
    JavaScript.
- name: LLM Embeds
  kind: embed
  status: current
  url: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/use-wistia-llm-embeds-for-seo-ai-visibility
  description: >-
    An embed variant Wistia positions for SEO and AI visibility — making video content legible to
    crawlers and language models rather than to a browser alone.
- name: oEmbed
  kind: protocol
  status: current
  url: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/wistia-and-oembed
  description: >-
    Standard oEmbed endpoint for programmatically retrieving an embed code from a media URL. Wistia
    also maintains the oEmbed spec repo mirror in its GitHub org.
integration_notes:
- topic: Content Security Policy
  url: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/how-to-create-a-wistia-friendly-content-security-policy-csp
- topic: Referrer policy and domain restrictions
  url: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/using-wistias-domain-restrictions-with-a-referrer-policy
- topic: Safe styling and sizing of embed components
  url: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/style-and-size-wistia-embed-components-safely
- topic: Working with multiple embeds on a page
  url: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/quick-guide-working-with-multiple-embeds
- topic: Embed code ID tagging — pass a viewer ID into stats via the player API
  url: https://docs.wistia.com/docs/embed-code-id-tagging
summary:
  families: 10
  current: 9
  legacy: 1
  npm_packages: 2
  cdn_hosts:
  - fast.wistia.com
  - fast.wistia.net