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Playlist feeds (MRSS)

Read a playlist as an MRSS feed

Every playlist, static or smart, can be read as an MRSS (Media RSS) feed, for example to syndicate your videos to a partner site or app. There are three feeds per playlist: standard MRSS, one for Roku and one for Yahoo. To create and manage the playlists themselves, see Playlists.

Feed URLs

https://player.target-video.com/services/mrss/playlist/PLAYER_ID/PLAYLIST_ID.xml
https://player.target-video.com/services/roku/playlist/PLAYER_ID/PLAYLIST_ID.xml
https://player.target-video.com/services/yahoo/playlist/PLAYER_ID/PLAYLIST_ID.xml

Replace PLAYLIST_ID with the playlist’s ID and PLAYER_ID with the ID of a player on the same website; the CMS shows these URLs with your default player. If your account uses its own player domain, the CMS shows the URLs on that domain.

Paging

A feed returns the first 20 videos of the playlist. To get more, add the page number and the number of videos per page (at most 100) before .xml:

https://player.target-video.com/services/mrss/playlist/PLAYER_ID/PLAYLIST_ID/2/50.xml

This example returns videos 51 to 100.

What a feed contains

A feed lists only the playlist’s videos that are active, published (their publish date has passed), not expired and not DRM-protected. Each video is an item with:

  • title, description, pubDate and guid;

  • media:content for each rendition (the MP4 renditions and, when available, the HLS stream), with url, type, duration, width, height and bitrate;

  • media:thumbnail, the video’s snapshot;

  • media:keywords, the video’s tags;

  • media:subTitle, the video’s captions (WebVTT), when it has any.

Roku feeds are flat: one media:content per video, no HLS stream and no captions. Yahoo feeds add updated (when the video last changed) and category (the video’s IAB categories).

Before you import a feed

  • Signed media URLs. If your account uses secure (signed) video URLs, the media links in the feed expire after a while. Download or ingest the videos soon after you read the feed.

  • Geo-restricted videos are filtered by the country of the server that reads the feed, not by your viewers’ country.

  • Errors return HTTP 200. A missing playlist, for example, returns a feed with a single item whose title is the error message (“Playlist doesn’t exist.”). Check for that before you import.

Playlist feeds (MRSS) · TargetVideo Developer Docs