Metadata
All API calls made for metadata require an access token which is acquired during authentication process.
Editorial and technical metadata
Endpoints serving metadata
Textual
OTT metadata
- btv/programmes (includes editorial and technical)
- btv/services
- btv/series
- btv/products
On demand metadata
- vod/editorials
- vod/nodes
- vod/series
- vod/products
Images
- IHS - ihs/v1
Security
- MDS - Access token provided with REST API
Compression
- Content-Encoding: gzip
Version management
- All apps check the version at boot up to pull metadata from MDS.
- HTTP cache headers in response set to 10 mins by default, trigger the native cache mechanisms.
- Ingest and Opcon metadata updates reflect after cache time in respective apps or immediately in desktop (not assumed to be data charges sensitive)
