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Get Content Metadata by ID (REST)

Overview

The REST Web Service, located at /content_metadata, returns metadata for a file. The REST service results are limited to 1K in size but can reveal a lot of information.

Request URL

http://myserver/content_metadata/152

Parameters

Parameter Type Required Max Length Description
id Integer 8 The Content ID of the content file on the server. In the above example URL, 152 is the ID.

The ID parameter can be determined by looking at URL paths in the web application. For example, the following URL from the content details page shows a Program ID of 152:

http://myserver/content/show/152?more=HWTTTT

Return

Success

A typical return is in this example.

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  
  
  30130
   
  
  2009-07-29T13:09:47-04:00
  
  2009-12-31T18:00:00-05:00
  
  Sample Content for TelVue
  
  31
  
  Premiere
  
  
  Sample.m2p 
  
  152
  2009-07-29T13:09:47-04:00
   
  
  Sample
  
  Sample Content
  
  
  
      
      1 
      Community 
    
  
  
  true

Failure

Program not Found

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

  Content with id: 152 does not exist.