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TL;DR — Your server syncs Wandura's catalog into your own database, applies your own paywall, and asks Wandura for a short-lived ticket each time a viewer starts an episode. The app plays that ticket with the licensed Player SDK. Wandura checks your licence on every ticket; you decide which viewer may watch what. Content with nothing to protect can use the lighter open video path instead.
The pieces
| Piece | Runs | Talks to | Holds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalog sync job | Your backend, on a schedule | GET /catalog |
A metadata:read key; writes your film tables |
| Ticket endpoint | Your backend, per play | POST /playback |
A playback key; your paywall |
| App | Viewer's phone | Your backend only | One ticket per episode, in memory |
| Player SDK | Inside your app | Wandura's streaming network | Its licence file; the device key, which never leaves the device |
| Creatives sync (optional) | Your backend | GET /creatives |
A creatives:export key |
One play, step by step:
The key that decrypts the video is bound to the viewer's device: it never passes through your backend or the API response.
Who does what
| Area | Wandura | Your team |
|---|---|---|
| Films | Produces, encodes and protects every film; keeps titles, posters, order and subtitles up to date. | Shows them in your app, in the order and with the text you receive. |
| Rights | Grants your organisation a licence per film, with an optional window, and checks it on every ticket. | Follows any other limits of your contract (for example countries). |
| Viewers and money | Nothing: the API has no viewer identity. | Accounts, sign-in, paywall, free episodes, coins, subscriptions, refunds, viewer support. |
| Keys | Nothing to issue: your Admins and Developers create, rotate and revoke every key themselves, playback keys included. | Keeps keys on your servers; revokes a key that may have leaked, then tells Wandura. |
| Player | Registers your app IDs and issues the Player SDK licence (your organisation pays for it). | Integrates the Player SDK in each app. |
| Playback | Signs a ticket for one episode on one device and records it. | Asks for a ticket only for episodes the viewer may watch. |
| Usage | Counts views from play tickets. |
Sends "intent": "play" when a viewer starts an episode and "prefetch" when preloading. |
Choose a model
| Standard (licensed films) | Managed | Open video | |
|---|---|---|---|
| For | Every partner app showing Wandura films | Only apps operated by the Wandura group, by separate agreement | Content with no rights to protect, for example fitness clips |
| Film list | Your server polls GET /catalog |
Agreed with Wandura's content team | GET /videos |
| Playback | A ticket per episode from POST /playback |
Set up with Wandura | Plain signed MP4 links, valid 1 hour |
| Player | The Player SDK (licensed) | The Player SDK (licensed) | Any standard player |
| Licence check | On every ticket | By contract | Per organisation and per app key |
| Start with | Integration roadmap | Contact Wandura | Open video |
If you are not sure, you are on the standard model. The managed model is not offered to external partners.
Related
- Before you start
- Security: the trust boundary.
- Canonical API behaviour
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