Can I get the JSON output from the code I wrote using the NodeJS SDK?

Shotstack API
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I wrote code using the NodeJS SDK that generates a fairly complex video. I have later decided to use Zapier to create this video out of answers from SurveySparrow. In Zapier I can POST to the ShotStack API but I have to provide the JSON payload directly. Is there a way in which I will not have to re-write the whole JSON from scratch, maybe getting the JSON as an output from the code I wrote in the SDK?

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Hi @femxxhealth,

Yes you can get the JSON of any template you have built by using the UUID of a completed render and polling the API to check the render status by adding timeline=true as a parameter. The JSON will then be available inside of the data property.

curl -X GET \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "x-api-key: ptmpOiyKgGYMnnONwvXH7FHzDGOazrIjaEDUS7Cf" \
     https://api.shotstack.io/stage/render/d2b46ed6-998a-4d6b-9d91-b8cf0193a655?timeline=true

This would return the following:

{
   "success":true,
   "message":"OK",
   "response":{
      "id":"d2b46ed6-998a-4d6b-9d91-b8cf0193a655",
      "owner":"hckwccw3q3",
      "plan":"sandbox",
      "status":"done",
      "url":"https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/shotstack-api-stage-output/hckwccw3q3/d2b46ed6-998a-4d6b-9d91-b8cf0193a655.mp4",
      "data":{
         "output":{
            ...
         },
         "timeline":{
            ...
         }
      },
      "created":"2019-04-16T12:02:42.148Z",
      "updated":"2019-04-16T12:02:51.867Z"
   }
}
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You can also just dump any object created using the SDK using JSON.stringify:

const edit = new Shotstack.Edit;
edit
    .setTimeline(timeline)
    .setOutput(output);

console.log(JSON.stringify(edit, null, 2));

That will just output the JSON to the terminal, or you could write it to a file etc…

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Thank you so much, this saved me a lot of time :slight_smile:

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Thanks a lot! Very helpful :grinning:

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