---
title: "Process Endpoint"
method: POST
path: "/api/process"
---

# Process Endpoint

`POST /api/process`

## 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/process`
- Auth: none declared

## Request body `multipart/form-data`

- BodyProcessEndpointApiProcessPost
  - `file` string, binary, nullable
  - `url` string, nullable
  - `acknowledged` string, nullable
  - `output_format` string, nullable
  - `layouts` string, nullable
  - `force_low_quality` string, nullable
  - `webhook_url` string, nullable
  - `webhook_secret` string, nullable
  - `target_clips` string, nullable
  - `clip_min_seconds` string, nullable
  - `clip_max_seconds` string, nullable
  - `auto_hook` string, nullable
  - `auto_hook_style` string, nullable
  - `thumbnail_session_id` string, nullable
  - `captions` string, nullable
  - `upload_id` string, nullable
  - `max_minutes` string, nullable
  - `source_start` string, nullable
  - `source_end` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

## Changes

- **2026-10-24** `608303963a3c`: 2 info
  - added the new optional request property `source_end`
  - added the new optional request property `source_start`
- **2026-09-17** `a8091f7b7077`: 1 info
  - added the new optional request property `max_minutes`

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

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