Media Probe API - Read Duration, Size and Codecs From Any File: Pricing, Documentation

Authentication

All requests require an API key passed via header.

Pricing: Billed at $0.002 per call — a flat rate. Probing a 3-hour film costs the same as probing a 3-second clip.

Retries: this is an asynchronous job on shared encoding capacity, so a request can occasionally come back processing_failed or take much longer than usual. These are transient and succeed on a retry, and a failed job is never charged — the wallet hold is released. If you chain these tools, retry a failed step rather than failing the whole pipeline.

Webhook (Optional)

Add the X-Webhook-URL header to your generate request to receive a POST callback instead of polling.

X-Webhook-URL: https://your-server.com/webhook/callback

Request Parameters - Media Probe generate request

The result is a small JSON file, not a media file: media_url points at it and media_type is application/json. It holds ok, duration_seconds, has_audio, width, height and image_format. width and height are null for an audio-only source.

If the URL downloads but holds nothing probeable — a CDN returning an HTML error page with a 200, a truncated upload, a non-media content type — you get a 422 rather than a confident set of zeros. Callers size work off duration_seconds, so a wrong 0 is worse than an error.

Request Headers

Response Handling

Common status codes.

Error Responses

Queue system errors and model validation errors.

Queue System Errors

// 402 — Insufficient balance
{
  "error": "Insufficient Balance",
  "message": "Your wallet does not have enough balance."
}

// 400 — Model not found
{
  "error": "Model not found",
  "message": "Model 'media-probe' not found or is disabled"
}

Error via Status/Webhook

{
  "request_id": "media-probe_019dxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "status": "ERROR",
  "model_id": "media-probe",
  "error": "Description of the error",
  "output": null
}

Retrieving Results

Poll the universal status endpoint to check progress and retrieve results.

Endpoint

GET https://gateway.pixazo.ai/v2/requests/status/{request_id}
Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: YOUR_API_KEY

curl -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  "https://gateway.pixazo.ai/v2/requests/status/media-probe_019dxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"

{
  "request_id": "media-probe_019dxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "status": "COMPLETED",
  "model_id": "media-probe",
  "error": null,
  "output": {
    "media_url": [
      "https://pub-582b7213209642b9b995c96c95a30381.r2.dev/v1/media-probe_019dxxxx/output.json"
    ],
    "media_type": "application/json"
  },
  "created_at": "2026-03-31T10:00:00.000Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-03-31T10:00:15.000Z",
  "completed_at": "2026-03-31T10:00:15.000Z"
}

Response Fields

Status Values

Status Flow

QUEUED → PROCESSING → COMPLETED
                    → FAILED
                    → ERROR

Typical Workflow

1. Send a generate request to the API endpoint
2. Save the request_id from the response
3. Poll every 5-10 seconds: GET /v2/requests/status/{request_id}
4. When status is "COMPLETED", download from output.media_url

Tip: Use X-Webhook-URL header to get a callback instead of polling.