Preview URL to Video

FreshPOST

POST https://api.creatify.ai/api/link_to_videos/preview/

Generate a preview of a URL-to-video task. Previews are lower quality but allow you to verify content before rendering.

Credit Cost

1 credit per 30 seconds of video

Request Body

Name	Type	Required	Description
id	string	Yes	The task ID to preview

Headers

Header	Type	Required	Description
X-API-ID	string	Yes	Your Creatify API ID
X-API-KEY	string	Yes	Your Creatify API key
Content-Type	string	Yes	application/json

Example Request

curl -X POST 'https://api.creatify.ai/api/link_to_videos/preview/' \
  -H 'X-API-ID: your-api-id' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: your-api-key' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "id": "ltv-001"
  }'

Response

{
  "id": "ltv-001",
  "status": "processing",
  "preview": null
}

When complete:

{
  "id": "ltv-001",
  "status": "done",
  "preview": "https://cdn.creatify.ai/previews/ltv-001.mp4"
}

Status Codes

Code	Description
200	Preview generation started
401	Unauthorized -- invalid API credentials
402	Insufficient credits
404	Task not found
500	Internal server error

TIP

Always preview before rendering to verify the video content matches your expectations. Previewing costs 1 credit vs 4 credits for rendering.