Generate GIF from Video Job API - ApyHub

Generate GIF from Video Job API

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The Generate GIF from Video Job API enables you to convert any portion of a video into a GIF via an asynchronous job submission. This means you can initiate a job by specifying a video source, start and end points, and desired GIF properties, then let the system handle the conversion behind the scenes. Rather than waiting for immediate output, you can perform other tasks and simply query the job’s status until your GIF is ready.
This API is particularly useful for applications where dynamic visual content—like animated previews, social media posts, or marketing snippets—is key. By streamlining GIF generation into a background process, you can easily scale your visual content creation workflow and reduce the manual effort and errors associated with traditional conversion methods.
Try the Video-to-GIF Conversion Job API in the API playground to experience seamless, asynchronous GIF creation that saves you time and improves your content pipeline.
Note: This API accepts video files, video URLs, and links from platforms like YouTube and Dailymotion, although there may be occasional functionality and accessibility issues due to platform policies.
Apy Jobs are long running calls which are split into two actions:
1. Submitting the job
2. Checking the status of the job and receiving the response on successful completion of the job.
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Generate GIF from Video Submit Job : input file
POST
https://api.apyhub.com/job/generate/gif/file

Request example

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curl --location --request POST 'https://api.apyhub.com/job/generate/gif/file' \
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--header 'apy-token: {{token}}' \
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--form 'video=@"sample.mp4"' 
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--form 'start_time="0"'
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--form 'duration="2"'
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--form 'speed="0"'
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--form 'size="400x300"'
Method: POST
Content Type: multipart/form-data
Query Parameter(s)
AttributeTypeMandatoryDescription
persistentBooleanNoSet to true to retain the converted video URL indefinitely. If false, the URL expires after 15 minutes, default false.
Request Body
AttributeTypeMandatoryDescription
videoFileYesThe source video file in any of supported formats (mp4,webm,flv,avi,mkv,mov,3gp).
start_timeStringNoThe time in seconds at which you want to generate the GIF. For example: if a video is 3 minutes long and you want to generate GIF from 90th second then this will be as start_time: 90 and it defaults to 0 (generate GIF from 0th second of the video).
durationStringNoThe GIF file length. For example: you want to generate the GIF for 4 seconds then it will be as duration: 4 and it defaults to 2 and max duration user can enter is 20(seconds).
speedStringNoThe GIF speed at which you want gif to run. For example: you want to increase the GIF speed by 4x then it will be as speed:4 and to decrease the GIF speed by 4x then it will be as speed:-4. It defaults to 0 which is normal speed and user can enter any value from range -10 to 10.
sizeStringNothe dimensions of the generated GIF file, should be in WidthxHeight format and it defaults to original_size.
Response
AttributeTypeDescription
job_idStringThe ID of the Job associated with the input video file, which can be utilized by the "Check Status" endpoint to retrieve the generated gif.
Sample Response
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{
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    "job_id": "4f3dfb22-33df-49f6-9820-7d8219ab6dc4"
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}

HTTP Response Codes

The method may return one of the following HTTP status codes:
Status CodeDescription
200The request was successful.
401Required authentication information is either missing or not valid for the resource.
400Invalid input - the provided files are corrupt or the supported inputs are not provided.
500If any unexpected error occurs while processing the request.

Authentication

All API requests to ApyHub services need to be authenticated. Currently we support tokens or basic authentication mechanisms. You can generate and view your existing credentials from your workspace settings (on the left side of the navbar) and go to “API Keys".
Points to note:
  • Credential secrets are generated on the fly and are not stored in plain text, so on generating a credential please save the secrets somewhere safe.
  • Use the apy-token as the header parameter to pass the token.
  • Use the Authorization header to send the basic authentication credentials.

Error codes

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{
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  "error": {
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    "code": 105,
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    "message": "Invalid URL"
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  }
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}
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