Patchwork Archive API

API data from Patchwork Archive is public and no API key is required to access what is publicly available on the frontend.

Below is an offering of what endpoints are available publicly. If you are for whatever reason hosting an instance of Patchwork-Backend please refer to the README in the repository for worker and queuer API endpoints

Gets archived videos from a particular channel

/channel/{channel_id}

Gets a paginated result of archived videos matching a channel id

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Gets archived videos from a particular channel

/channel_name

Gets a paginated result of archived videos matching a channel id

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Get basic information regarding a specific video

/video/{video_id}

Pulls basic information about a video from fallback database only

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Get a singular random video

/random_video

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Get multiple random videos

/discover_videos

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Get paginated search results for some keyword

/search/results

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Get today's daily features videos

/daily_featured_videos

Either 1 or 2 video objects in an array depending on calculated hash

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Get the 6 most recently archived videos

/recently_archived

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Get detailed information about the video if available

/database/video_data/{video_id}

If info.json generated by yt-dlp is available it will be directly delivered here, if not, fallback video data from the database is used instead

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Get the status of the database

/database/status

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Get the status of the database

/storage/status

Gets the number of videos archived and space used in GB

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Last modified: 16 December 2023