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Frame.io is the cloud collaboration tool for professional video teams — everything you need to keep the creative process moving, all in a single workbench, accessible from anywhere. With Frame.io, you can securely upload, share, and review film projects, enabling your full operation to run at the speed of creativity.
Not every creative team, process, or software stack is exactly the same. That’s where our Developer Platform comes in. The Frame.io Developer Platform allows you to handle common tasks using our API. Some popular use cases developers have used our API for include automatically adding existing files or folders to the Frame.io app, uploading new content, and managing teams.
Camera to Cloud is a unique type of integration. These integrations are purpose built for any device or application that is generating data. If you are building a C2C integration then you will want to use the C2C Integration guides. There you can find all the information you need to get started connecting to the cloud with Frame.io!
Frame.io’s official Python SDK for API integration
Command-line interface for Frame.io operations
Frame.io offers an SDK in Python to make getting started with our API easier, including abstraction of key concepts like pagination and rate limiting. This project is available on PyPI, so pip install and off you go! If you’d prefer to work from the command line, FIOCTL is also available on PyPI.
If you want to get started right away, just click this button to bring our API into Postman!
Otherwise, read on. As a starting point, you’ll need to ensure that you have a Frame.io account that you can sign in with.
From there:
To confirm that your token is working, go ahead and make a test call using a language, tool, or proxy of your choice:
In response, you should see your user information.
The majority of integrated workflows with Frame.io will focus on media Asset upload and retrieval. If you’re planning on building a full application for release inside (or outside!) your organization, you may also want to consider building an OAuth2.0 application for distribution. These guides are the major building blocks you’ll need to start your journey:
Navigate Frame.io’s project structure
Add media to your Frame.io projects
Create applications for multiple users
All Assets live inside of Projects. The first guide covers Project traversal, starting at the root folder. Once you can navigate to a specific destination, you have everything you need to start uploading media. After you’ve got upload working, it’s time to build an application that other people can use!
Frame.io’s Developer Platform offers a few options you can use to extend your workflows into other tools, or to create whole new features.
Webhooks provide a way to leverage events that occur inside of Frame.io into notifications that can be sent to external systems for processing, API callback, and workflow automation.
There a number of ways to use our webhooks. You can build something yourself or you can take advantage of a no-code automation tool like Zapier, Integromat, Pabbly Connect, or Pipedream.
We have a Webhooks Example App on Github that you can use as a starting point if you’d like to build your own receiver.
Custom Actions allow you to build integrations directly into Frame.io as programmable UI components. They’re technically very similar to Webhooks, and are a great way to extend your Frame.io workflows.
If you’re not sure about building right away, you can check out our Developer Forum. Our community is full of developers, tinkerers, and creative professionals who have built, or are building awesome integrations using Frame.io’s API combined with a variety of other workflow tools.