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# Create video

POST https://api-gateway.merge.dev/v1/videos
Content-Type: application/json

Start an asynchronous video generation job; poll it with `GET /v1/videos/{video_id}`.

Reference: https://docs.merge.dev/merge-gateway/api-overview/videos/create

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Your production key sent as a bearer token.

## Request

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects a VideoGenerationRequestSchema.

- `model` (string, required) — Video model, for example `google/veo-3.1-generate-001`.
- `prompt` (string, required) — Text prompt for the video.
- `customer` (string, optional, nullable) — Customer ID (UUID) to scope this request to, applying that customer's routing policy, provider keys, budget, and usage attribution.
- `vendor` (string, optional, nullable) — Pin the vendor that runs this request.
- `seconds` (VideoGenerationRequestSchemaSeconds, optional, nullable) — Clip length in seconds, within the model's limits.
- `size` (string, optional, nullable) — Output resolution as `WIDTHxHEIGHT`, model-specific.
- `user` (string, optional, nullable) — End-user identifier forwarded to the provider.

## Response

### 202

Successful Response

- `id` (string, required) — Video job ID.
- `status` (string, required) — Job status, starting at `queued`; poll until it is `completed` or `failed`.
- `model` (string, required) — Model running the job.
- `object` ("video", optional, default: video)
- `seconds` (string, optional, nullable) — Clip length in seconds.
- `size` (string, optional, nullable) — Output resolution.
- `created_at` (integer, optional, nullable) — Unix timestamp in seconds.
- `progress` (integer, optional, nullable) — Progress percentage, when the provider reports it.
- `error` (map from string to any, optional, nullable) — Error details for a failed job.
- `cost` (double, optional, nullable) — Cost of the job in USD, set once it completes; failed jobs are not billed.

## Errors

### 422 Unprocessable Entity Error

Validation Error

- `detail` (list of ValidationError, optional)

## Types

### VideoGenerationRequestSchemaSeconds

Clip length in seconds, within the model's limits.

### ValidationError

Single field-level validation error. `loc` is the JSON path to the offending field, `msg` is a human-readable explanation, and `type` is a stable machine-readable error code.

- `loc` (list of ValidationErrorLocItems, required)
- `msg` (string, required)
- `type` (string, required)
- `input` (any, optional)
- `ctx` (ValidationErrorCtx, optional)

### ValidationErrorLocItems

### ValidationErrorCtx

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "model": "string",
  "prompt": "string"
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "id": "string",
  "status": "string",
  "model": "string",
  "object": "video",
  "seconds": "string",
  "size": "string",
  "created_at": 1,
  "progress": 1,
  "error": {},
  "cost": 1.1
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api-gateway.merge.dev/v1/videos"

payload = {
    "model": "string",
    "prompt": "string"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api-gateway.merge.dev/v1/videos';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"model":"string","prompt":"string"}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api-gateway.merge.dev/v1/videos"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"model\": \"string\",\n  \"prompt\": \"string\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api-gateway.merge.dev/v1/videos")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"model\": \"string\",\n  \"prompt\": \"string\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api-gateway.merge.dev/v1/videos")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"model\": \"string\",\n  \"prompt\": \"string\"\n}")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api-gateway.merge.dev/v1/videos', [
  'body' => '{
  "model": "string",
  "prompt": "string"
}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api-gateway.merge.dev/v1/videos");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\n  \"model\": \"string\",\n  \"prompt\": \"string\"\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [
  "model": "string",
  "prompt": "string"
] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api-gateway.merge.dev/v1/videos")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```