What’s the difference between Private and Public vídeos?

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Hello, thank you for the amazing API. I never implemented an API so easy in my whole career.

I’m using the SDK PHP and I want to understand more the difference between private (setPrivate(id)) and public (setPublic(id)) videos on your platform.

Best regards,
Renato Gonçalves

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Hi Renato,

Thanks for this comment. It really means a lot to us! Feedback from our users are extremely important, it helps us building a better API.
To answer your question, private video gives access to only specific audience, meaning the video endpoint won’t be public. You can post a private video directly when posting your video by adding it to your body.
Private videos cannot be shared. Each time someone wants to watch a private video, a token is generated. As soon as this token is consumed, the video cannot be shared or watched on another web page or website without generating a new token.
On the contrary public videos can be watched by anyone.

Please don’t hesitate to share any tips with the community or give us suggestion to improve the web-service!
Have a great day!

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I opened a private link from my sandbox, played the video, and refreshed the page. The video still played. That’s not the expected behavior, or is it in sandbox mode?

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Hi MiLeung!

Welcome to our community! We appreciate your taking an active role, it’s helping us to build a great product!

Regarding your question, in both modes the video permission is tied to a single browser session. As long as you are in the original browser window and do not clear cookies you can watch the video.

You can test the privacy of a video by trying to open the link in a new browser window.

Do you have a reason that you would not want this behavior? Let me know.

Yitzi