Welcome to the Animoto API Developer Guide.

The Animoto API is a web service that transforms pictures, music, video clips, and text into professional-caliber videos.

Who should read this guide

The primary audience of this guide is software engineers or others with technical/software-engineering backgrounds. You should read this guide if:

  • You are a developer working on integrating Animoto services with another web service.
  • You are working with libraries implementing the Animoto API.
  • You are creating libraries that implement the Animoto API.
  • You are reviewing the Animoto API for potential integration.

Readers of this guide should be familiar with:

  • Basic web-services concepts.
  • Basic RESTful HTTP concepts.
  • JSON (or XML).
  • At least one programming language (like Ruby or Java).

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