Control Panel — API Documentation

This API system retrieves information regarding a requested Playlist. The response contains the information on how the playlist is to be played, and the list of VOD files and Live streams that will be shown on the channel.

    $request = array(
        'command' => 'channel.channeldetails',
        'api_key' => 'APX4GKLM0RKQLSP2FBO1ROPKSSW47DZE',
        'timestamp' => time(),
        'cdn' => 158,
        'channel_id' => 1000,
    );
        //Create request signature
    $json_request = json_encode($request);
    $sig = base64_encode(hash_hmac('sha256', $json_request,
        '8fc8c48da81e6a2a06a9556379bf798af508dc0792497c678b4c3532ba8b637f', true));
    $request['signature'] = $sig;
    $json_request = json_encode($request);
    
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.scaleengine.net/stable/'); // Set the URL
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); // Perform a POST
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // If not set, curl prints output to the browser
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); // If set, curl returns headers as part of the data stream
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('json' => $json_request)); //'Json' string or 'PHP' serialized return
    
    //If your PHP host does not have a proper SSL certificate bundle, you will need to turn off SSL Certificate Verification
    //This is dangerous, and should only be done temporarily until a proper certificate bundle can be installed
    //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false); // Turns off verification of the SSL certificate.
    //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); // Turns off verification of the SSL certificate.
    
    $response = curl_exec($ch); //Execute the API Call
    if (!$response) {
        die('Failed to connect to ScaleEngine API');
    }
    
    //Decode the response as an associative array 
    $arrResponse = json_decode($response, true); 
    if ($arrResponse) {
        //Operation completed successfully
        //TODO Add work here
        print_r($arrResponse);
    } else {
        //Operation failed
        echo 'An error occured processing your request:';
        print_r($response);
    }
    	

    {
    "message": "channel Found",
    "status": "success",
    "channel" : {
        "details" : {
            "channel_id" : 1000,
            "channel_name" : "My first playlist",
            "app" : "demo-origin",
            "app_inst" : "live",
            "stream" : "my_channel_stream_name",
            "repeat" : 1,
            "scheduled" : "2014-10-13 15:00:00",
            "last_modified" : "2014-10-13 16:45:00",
            "active" : 1,
            "ga_key" : "",
        "reason" : "API Requested stream to be closed"
        },
        "videos" : {
            "channel_video_id" : 1,
            "video" : "sestore1/username/path/play_first.mp4",
            "start" : 0,
            "length" : -1,
            "sort_order" => 1
            },
            {
            "channel_video_id" : 2,
            "video" : "my_livestream_1",
            "start" : 0,
            "length" : -2,
            "sort_order" : 2
        }
    },
    "handle_time":"0.3795 seconds"
    }