Get media item status

GET/v1/event/{eventId}/sessions/{sessionId}/media/{mediaItemId}

US Region: https://public-api.sessionboard.com · EU Region: https://public-api-eu.sessionboard.com

Check upload and transcription progress after completing an upload. Requires read:media (legacy tokens with empty scopes pass).

Request example

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/sessions/{sessionId}/media/{mediaItemId}' \
  --header 'x-access-token: <api-token>'

JavaScript

const response = await fetch('https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/sessions/{sessionId}/media/{mediaItemId}', {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    "x-access-token": "<api-token>"
  },
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

Python

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/sessions/{sessionId}/media/{mediaItemId}",
    headers={
        "x-access-token": "<api-token>"
    },
)

print(response.json())

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/sessions/{sessionId}/media/{mediaItemId}",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        "x-access-token: <api-token>",
    ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);

echo $response;

Go

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "io"
  "net/http"
)

func main() {
  req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/sessions/{sessionId}/media/{mediaItemId}", nil)
  req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "<api-token>")

  res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
  defer res.Body.Close()
  body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

  fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/sessions/{sessionId}/media/{mediaItemId}"))
    .header("x-access-token", "<api-token>")
    .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();

HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
    .send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

System.out.println(response.body());

Try it

RegionUS Region — https://public-api.sessionboard.comEU Region — https://public-api-eu.sessionboard.com

Authorization

Send asAPI token (x-access-token)OAuth access token (Bearer)

Token

Your token stays in this page. It is sent only to the region above and is never saved; it is gone when you leave or reload the page.

Path parameters

eventId*

sessionId*

mediaItemId*

GET

Send request

Authorizations

• x-access-tokenstringheader

  Organization API token. Generate from Organization Settings → API Tokens.

• AuthorizationBearer <token>headeror

  OAuth 2.1 access token. Obtained via the OAuth PKCE flow at /oauth/token.

Send one of these. See Authentication.

Path parameters

• eventIdintegerpathrequired

  Event ID

• sessionIdstring<uuid>pathrequired

  Session UUID

• mediaItemIdstring<uuid>pathrequired

Responses

200application/json

OK

• dataMediaItem
  Show child attributes

  • idstring<uuid>
  • typestring

    Example

    "media_item"

  • titlestring
  • platformstring
  • kindstring
  • event_idinteger
  • session_idstring<uuid>
  • media_s3_keystring
  • transcript_statusstring

    Allowed values

    "queued", "processing", "ready", "failed"

  • duration_secondsnumber
  • created_atstring<date-time>
  • updated_atstring<date-time>

403

Missing read:media scope

404

Not found

Response examples

200

{
  "data": {
    "id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "type": "media_item",
    "title": "<string>",
    "platform": "<string>",
    "kind": "<string>",
    "event_id": 123,
    "session_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "media_s3_key": "<string>",
    "transcript_status": "queued",
    "duration_seconds": 123.45,
    "created_at": "2026-01-15T09:30:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-01-15T09:30:00Z"
  }
}