A video calling API typically provides access to the underlying functionality of video-calling services, such as audio and video capture, encoding and decoding, and transmission over the internet. This allows developers to create their own user interfaces and features for their applications while leveraging the power and reliability of the underlying video-calling service.
There are many different video-calling APIs on the market, each with its own features, capabilities, and limitations. Some of the most popular video APIs include the Digital Samba’s WebRTC API, the Skype API, and the Zoom API.
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Overall, a video-calling API is a valuable tool for developers who want to add video conferencing to their websites or applications. With a video-call API, developers can create user-friendly and engaging video-calling experiences for their users, while leveraging the reliability and power of the underlying video-calling service.
To use a video chat for a website, developers would typically create a user account with the live chat service provider, and then obtain an API key or other authentication credentials. They would then use the API to access the live chat service's functionality and embed video conference
into their website. This might involve adding HTML and JavaScript code to the website, as well as making API calls to the live chat service to manage user accounts, create chat rooms, and handle messages and other data.
Overall, it is efficient to embed video chat into a website using an API. By using a video chat API, developers can add real-time communication capabilities to their website, and provide their users with an engaging and user-friendly live chat and video experience.
Digital Samba's video calling API is engineered to seamlessly integrate with web applications and websites. It offers comprehensive access to Digital Samba's extensive feature set, empowering developers to selectively incorporate these features into their tailored applications.
Digital Samba’s video call SDK also allows developers to take a deep dive into the inner workings of real-time communication features to make their own home-brew implementation if that is desired.
The video calling API is top-down flexible, allowing developers to efficiently select and use features that just work and embed those features directly into any application that supports HTML and API calls to Digital Samba’s robust global infrastructure.
Another option for developing an application that uses live user-fed video and audio is MirrorFly’s API. MirrorFly offers quick and simple solutions to the majority of simple needs regarding video and audio integration into basic applications on the web and in mobile and desktop environments.
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VideoSDK is a live video API provider that hosts two products. One product is for live audio/video, and the other is for interactive live streaming. They have web and mobile documentation available for developers and also support React.
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Sinch is a voice and video service that supports crossover from in-app voice, video and text to phone calls and SMS service. This access to tier 1 networking (settlement-free peering) is a powerful offer that makes Sinch a good platform to develop when building something like a telemarketing business or large-scale customer support service.
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The Vonage video API is available for developers to integrate video conferencing into website, mobile applications, Windows desktop environments, Linux desktop environments, and more. The audio-video data transfer for Vonage’s API is based on WebRTC. Vonage’s API has separate components for client and server-side executable code.
Client-side code runs on the user’s environment such as a mobile app, or website. It handles the majority of the Vonage API’s functionality, while server-side code is designed to run on web infrastructure that connects client-side functionality through the management of session tokens.
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Apphitect is based out of the UAE and offers cloud infrastructure that can support live video calling and some other peer-to-peer data streaming functionality. They offer support for many languages and frameworks with their API, and can quickly deploy a working, production-ready application that includes live video streaming between users.
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Agora offers an exhaustive list of API’s and SDK’s for developing live video solutions for the web. Agora also offers community connections on StackOverflow and other technical help sites, and it also offers a stand-alone product with lots of features. There are also many options for using their API to develop live video solutions.
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PubNub offers an API that allows developers to integrate video calls and voice into websites across the web as well as in native desktop environments. They use a Publish/Subscribe REST API architecture for their back-end service, which is somewhat novel.
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There are many different ways to include live video calling or chat features in a modern website. There is not a truly one-size-fits-all solution that covers what every developer is looking for all of the time. However, one thing that can be universally recommended is talking to an expert.
That said, committing to an API and SDK provider for making products or services that you will rely on for the foreseeable future as a business obligation is a serious decision.
While video-calling API’s have some common features; they are not the same, and those differences in the quality of the API service or the company providing the API can make a significant impact on your idea’s scalability and operational security going forward. It is very important to make the right decision off the bat when choosing a web video call API.
Digital Samba has a live technical sales team that can schedule a demonstration of what our video conferencing API can do for developers that are looking into using back-end APIs to handle live voice, video, and chat with their applications.
Reach out to us to have a tech help you flesh out the best way forward with your project.