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GET /v1/meta

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/rutube-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/rutube-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/rutube-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/rutube-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "source": "RUTUBE public API (rutube.ru/api, live)",
        "service": "rutube-api",
        "endpoints": {
            "GET /v1/meta": "This document.",
            "GET /v1/video": "One video's full stats by id (id=<hex>, from /v1/search).",
            "GET /v1/search": "Search videos by query (q=news, limit=20). Returns views, duration, channel.",
            "GET /v1/channel": "A channel's recent uploads by person id (id=38770854, limit=20)."
        },
        "description": "Live data from RUTUBE, the largest Russian video platform (tens of millions of users), served straight from its public web API. The search endpoint finds videos by query with their view counts, duration and channel; the video endpoint returns one video's full stats (views, duration, publish date, category, author); the channel endpoint returns a channel's recent uploads by person id. Live, no key, nothing stored. A distinct video-platform feed, separate from YouTube, Vimeo, Bilibili, Dailymotion, PeerTube and other video APIs.",
        "sample_video_id": "b68e4526d60f0945b36853edee93aca8",
        "upstream_status": "ok"
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-10T22:56:34.029Z",
        "request_id": "d200330e-3c40-4257-b82c-0e968a3c683d"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta",
    "success": true
}