Gemini Creative used the Cablecast API to help Pittsfield TV

Streaming Video with the Cablecast API

Website Design
API Development
Wordpress Development

Streaming Cablecast videos on your website.

The Cablecast API is like a database we can talk to. We can ask it a question and it will return results. What we do with those results is up to you.

Once we have the data we can display it on your website in a way that fits your website’s look and feel. If you’re looking to redesign your website, we’ll make sure the video data we retrieve works perfectly with your new design.

Search the video archive
Request saved searches or galleries
Display multiple LIVE TV feeds
Display the program schedule for TV channels
Show the video agenda link to PDF
Request program chapter markers

To do these things, we use a combination of the WordPress backend, the theme template, and custom PHP and Javascript to make requests to the Cablecast API. The response is structured in JSON format, which can be read by the browser and displayed on your website.

We don’t expect our clients to work with the API themselves. Our goal is to understand what it is you’d like the API to help you do, and see if that is something the Cablecast API is cabable of.

PCTV has the website they hoped for.

Pittsfield Community Television called to ask us what it would take to design a new website. Our process started with Discovery.

Once we understood what the website was meant to accomplish, we looked into delivering all video content using the Cabelcast API. This opened a world of possibilities for us, so we worked closely with PCTV staff to design a series of pages that could allow the visitor to browse video content.

Based on the capabilities of the API, we were able to add functionality to the website. We are now able to search their video archive and display results. We can display saved searches or galleries created by the staff. We can use the WordPress backend to put together a category system and then request galleries for each category. We can also display LIVE TV and TV Schedules for different channels.

If you're interested in learning more about the Cablecast API and how it could be leveraged to stream video content on your website, we invite you to give us a call at (413) 854-4599.

Shawn Serra Executive Director of Pittsfield Community Television

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