---
title: "Issue Media Token"
method: POST
path: "/api/media-token"
---

# Issue Media Token

`POST /api/media-token`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.openshorts.app` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.openshorts.app/api/media-token`
- Auth: none declared

A short-lived token for the caller's own media, for the places that
cannot send a header: the dashboard appends it to /videos and /thumbnails
URLs (``mt=``) and also gets it as an HttpOnly cookie on this host.

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Changes

- **2026-10-28** `f48b7596b582`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/openshorts/apis/openshorts-api/changes/api/media-token/post.md)

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/openshorts/apis/openshorts-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/openshorts/apis/openshorts-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/openshorts/apis/openshorts-api/revisions/62b7629b5e88?raw)