How to get a list of templates with ids

Shotstack API
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How do I get a list of available templates? Or how do I download a template given a template id?

I have looked at TemplateListResponseData but dont get the api call.

I am using the node sdk.

Thanks!

2

Hi,
I have just added some examples to the Node.js examples repo with how to get a list of templates and an individual template: GitHub - shotstack/node-demos: Shotstack Node demos - Edit videos in the cloud with Node and the Shotstack Video Editing API.

To get a list use the following code:

const Shotstack = require('shotstack-sdk');

const defaultClient = Shotstack.ApiClient.instance;
const DeveloperKey = defaultClient.authentications['DeveloperKey'];
const api = new Shotstack.EditApi();

let apiUrl = 'https://api.shotstack.io/stage';

if (!process.env.SHOTSTACK_KEY) {
    console.log('API Key is required. Set using: export SHOTSTACK_KEY=your_key_here');
    process.exit(1);
}

if (process.env.SHOTSTACK_HOST) {
    apiUrl = process.env.SHOTSTACK_HOST;
}

defaultClient.basePath = apiUrl;
DeveloperKey.apiKey = process.env.SHOTSTACK_KEY;

api.getTemplates().then((data) => {
    const { templates } = data.response;

    if (templates.length) {
        console.log(templates);
    }
}, (error) => {
    console.error('Request failed: ', error);
    process.exit(1);
});

That should give a regular array containing objects with the name and id of the templates.

You can then use one of the template ids using the following code:

const Shotstack = require('shotstack-sdk');

const defaultClient = Shotstack.ApiClient.instance;
const DeveloperKey = defaultClient.authentications['DeveloperKey'];
const api = new Shotstack.EditApi();
const id = process.argv[2];

let apiUrl = 'https://api.shotstack.io/stage';

if (!id) {
  console.log(">> Please provide the UUID of the template (i.e. node examples/templates/template.js 7feabb0e-b5eb-8c5e-847d-82297dd4802a)\n");
  process.exit(1);
}

if (!process.env.SHOTSTACK_KEY) {
    console.log('API Key is required. Set using: export SHOTSTACK_KEY=your_key_here');
    process.exit(1);
}

if (process.env.SHOTSTACK_HOST) {
    apiUrl = process.env.SHOTSTACK_HOST;
}

defaultClient.basePath = apiUrl;
DeveloperKey.apiKey = process.env.SHOTSTACK_KEY;

api.getTemplate(id).then((data) => {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(data.response, null, 2));
}, (error) => {
    console.error('Request failed: ', error);
    process.exit(1);
});

Just make sure you pass it the template ID. The example above uses the command line argument like this:

node script.js<template_uuid>

Further documentation is here: Templates | Shotstack Documentation

3

Thanks Lucas! I’ll give it a try.

4

Worked like a charm. Thanks