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Publishing
POST
/videos/{id}/publish

Posts the rendered video to the connected social accounts. Omit profileId and platforms to use the video's own destination (a clip inherits its blueprint's). Omit caption to use the video's brief.description.

Publishing needs a paid plan (warning-plan-publish) and a rendered video (warning-publish-not-configured). Platforms with no connected account are reported back as missingPlatforms rather than failing the whole call, unless none of the requested platforms resolves, which is warning-publish-no-accounts. An account whose authorization expired is warning-publish-auth, and reconnecting it in Settings clears that.

Send an Idempotency-Key: a timed-out retry would otherwise post the same video twice.

Authorization

bearerAuth
AuthorizationBearer <token>

An API key created under Settings > API & Webhooks. Keys start with sf_live_.

In: header

Path Parameters

id*string

Header Parameters

Idempotency-Key?string

Unique key per action (a UUID works well). Reusing it replays the first response instead of running the action again, so a retry after a timeout can never generate, render, publish or charge twice.

Lengthlength <= 255

Request Body

application/json

TypeScript Definitions

Use the request body type in TypeScript.

Response Body

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

curl -X POST "https://example.com/videos/string/publish" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -d '{    "profileId": "pR4kM8xT2vQ6nL9wz",    "platforms": [      "tiktok",      "youtube"    ],    "caption": "Burnout is not a workload problem. #founders"  }'
{  "data": {    "videoId": "7bQxL2mF9dR4tK1sv",    "platforms": [      "tiktok"    ],    "missingPlatforms": [      "youtube"    ],    "publish": {      "status": "COMPLETED",      "scheduledAt": null,      "startedAt": "2026-08-06T09:40:02.000Z",      "publishedAt": "2026-08-06T09:40:31.000Z",      "failedAt": null,      "platforms": [        "tiktok"      ],      "missingPlatforms": [        "youtube"      ],      "caption": "Burnout is not a workload problem. #founders",      "error": null    }  }}

List publishing profiles GET

The named destinations in this workspace and the social accounts connected to each. Unpaginated: a workspace holds a handful at most. Pass `?refresh=true` to re-read the connected accounts upstream before answering. That is slower, and never fails the request: if the accounts cannot be re-read, the cached ones are returned.

Clear the publish state DELETE

Wipes the publish block so the video can be sent again. Refused while a publish is live or already finished (`warning-invalid-input`): clearing it then would lose the result and let an automation post the same video twice.