Create cast token

POST

/api/v1/cast-tokens

curl --request POST \
  --url https://example.com/api/v1/cast-tokens \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --cookie kivo_session=<kivo_session> \
  --data '{ "receiverName": "example", "receiverKind": "web" }'

• The server itself, under its configured base path (such as `/kivo`).

Gives a Cast receiver a token to play as this user. A token the receiver sends to the cast routes, returned once, with the addresses to reach the server by. It belongs to the caller’s session: signing that session out ends it. An API key’s caller, or a cast token’s, has no session to give one, so gets 404.

Authorizations

• cookieAuth
• bearerAuth

Request Body^required

Media typeapplication/json

object

receiverName

required

The Cast device’s name, such as “Living Room TV”, shown as the client of the plays it starts.

string

>= 1 characters <= 100 characters

receiverKind

required

What plays the cast: web the Web Receiver page on any Google Cast device, androidTv the Android TV app opened by Cast Connect.

string

Allowed values: web androidTv

Responses

201

The token, shown once.

Media typeapplication/json

object

token

required

Shown once. Sent only in the Authorization header, never in a URL.

string

expiresAt

required

The latest it can last; unused for 30 minutes, it ends sooner.

string format: date-time

serverId

required

The server’s ID, which the receiver checks each address against.

string format: uuid

urls

required

Addresses for the receiver to try in order, as localUrls and then publicUrl give them to the caller.

Array<string>

Example ^generated

{
  "token": "example",
  "expiresAt": "2026-04-15T12:00:00Z",
  "serverId": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0",
  "urls": [
    "example"
  ]
}

400

The request is malformed or a field is invalid (code invalidRequest).

Media typeapplication/problem+json

An RFC 9457 problem document. code is stable and is what clients translate.

object

type

required

A URI naming the problem type; about:blank when only code matters.

string

title

required

A short English summary, for logs.

string

status

required

integer

detail

English detail for logs and developers; never internal error text.

string

instance

string

code

required

A problem’s stable code, which clients translate. A client that doesn’t know a code goes by the response’s status.

string

Allowed values: invalidRequest unauthenticated invalidCredentials wrongPassword forbidden crossOrigin denied notFound expired notReady rangeNotSatisfiable conflict alreadySetUp nameTaken lastAdmin ownUser fileStillPresent kindMismatch notStoppable streamLimit notPlayable noFallback playEnded throttled rateLimited providerUnavailable notConfigured quotaUsed transcodeBusy transcodeFailed internal

requestId

required

The request ID, also in the X-Request-Id header and the server log.

string

reason

For transcodeBusy and notPlayable, why. For transcodeBusy: transcodeLimit or storageFull. For notPlayable: noTracks, fileUnplayable, subtitleUnplayable, transcodeFailed, keyframeIndexMissing or downloadsNotAllowed.

string

Allowed values: noTracks fileUnplayable subtitleUnplayable keyframeIndexMissing transcodeFailed transcodeLimit storageFull downloadsNotAllowed sourceUnreadable subtitlesUnavailable planUnreadable

mismatch

For fileUnplayable, the capability the file failed.

object

field

required

string

declared

The declared value, lists joined by commas; absent when the client declared none.

string

actual

required

string

retryAfterSeconds

For throttled and rateLimited, the Retry-After header’s value.

integer

errors

For invalidRequest, what’s wrong with which field.

Array<object>

object

field

required

A JSON pointer into the body, or a parameter name.

string

code

required

What’s wrong with a field: tooLarge for a file or list over its size, unsupported for a file in a format the server doesn’t take, unknownEpisodeGroup for a group:<ID> ordering TMDb doesn’t list for the series, and notABook for a work edited with books that isn’t one.

string

Allowed values: required invalid tooShort tooLong tooLarge unsupported outOfRange unknownEpisodeGroup notABook

plays

For streamLimit, the user’s plays, to show what is playing where.

Array<object>

One of the user’s plays, for the stream limit.

object

id

required

A UUIDv7.

string format: uuid

workId

required

A UUIDv7.

string format: uuid

title

required

string

clientName

The name of the session or API key it was started by.

string

startedAt

required

string format: date-time

message

For playEnded, the admin’s words to the viewer, when they gave any.

string

resetsAt

For quotaUsed, when the quota resets, when the provider said.

string format: date-time

Example

{
  "code": "invalidRequest",
  "reason": "noTracks",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "required"
    }
  ]
}

401

No valid session or API key (code unauthenticated), or a failed sign-in (code invalidCredentials).

Media typeapplication/problem+json

An RFC 9457 problem document. code is stable and is what clients translate.

object

type

required

A URI naming the problem type; about:blank when only code matters.

string

title

required

A short English summary, for logs.

string

status

required

integer

detail

English detail for logs and developers; never internal error text.

string

instance

string

code

required

A problem’s stable code, which clients translate. A client that doesn’t know a code goes by the response’s status.

string

Allowed values: invalidRequest unauthenticated invalidCredentials wrongPassword forbidden crossOrigin denied notFound expired notReady rangeNotSatisfiable conflict alreadySetUp nameTaken lastAdmin ownUser fileStillPresent kindMismatch notStoppable streamLimit notPlayable noFallback playEnded throttled rateLimited providerUnavailable notConfigured quotaUsed transcodeBusy transcodeFailed internal

requestId

required

The request ID, also in the X-Request-Id header and the server log.

string

reason

For transcodeBusy and notPlayable, why. For transcodeBusy: transcodeLimit or storageFull. For notPlayable: noTracks, fileUnplayable, subtitleUnplayable, transcodeFailed, keyframeIndexMissing or downloadsNotAllowed.

string

Allowed values: noTracks fileUnplayable subtitleUnplayable keyframeIndexMissing transcodeFailed transcodeLimit storageFull downloadsNotAllowed sourceUnreadable subtitlesUnavailable planUnreadable

mismatch

For fileUnplayable, the capability the file failed.

object

field

required

string

declared

The declared value, lists joined by commas; absent when the client declared none.

string

actual

required

string

retryAfterSeconds

For throttled and rateLimited, the Retry-After header’s value.

integer

errors

For invalidRequest, what’s wrong with which field.

Array<object>

object

field

required

A JSON pointer into the body, or a parameter name.

string

code

required

What’s wrong with a field: tooLarge for a file or list over its size, unsupported for a file in a format the server doesn’t take, unknownEpisodeGroup for a group:<ID> ordering TMDb doesn’t list for the series, and notABook for a work edited with books that isn’t one.

string

Allowed values: required invalid tooShort tooLong tooLarge unsupported outOfRange unknownEpisodeGroup notABook

plays

For streamLimit, the user’s plays, to show what is playing where.

Array<object>

One of the user’s plays, for the stream limit.

object

id

required

A UUIDv7.

string format: uuid

workId

required

A UUIDv7.

string format: uuid

title

required

string

clientName

The name of the session or API key it was started by.

string

startedAt

required

string format: date-time

message

For playEnded, the admin’s words to the viewer, when they gave any.

string

resetsAt

For quotaUsed, when the quota resets, when the provider said.

string format: date-time

Example

{
  "code": "invalidRequest",
  "reason": "noTracks",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "required"
    }
  ]
}

404

No such resource, or the caller may not see it (code notFound).

Media typeapplication/problem+json

An RFC 9457 problem document. code is stable and is what clients translate.

object

type

required

A URI naming the problem type; about:blank when only code matters.

string

title

required

A short English summary, for logs.

string

status

required

integer

detail

English detail for logs and developers; never internal error text.

string

instance

string

code

required

A problem’s stable code, which clients translate. A client that doesn’t know a code goes by the response’s status.

string

Allowed values: invalidRequest unauthenticated invalidCredentials wrongPassword forbidden crossOrigin denied notFound expired notReady rangeNotSatisfiable conflict alreadySetUp nameTaken lastAdmin ownUser fileStillPresent kindMismatch notStoppable streamLimit notPlayable noFallback playEnded throttled rateLimited providerUnavailable notConfigured quotaUsed transcodeBusy transcodeFailed internal

requestId

required

The request ID, also in the X-Request-Id header and the server log.

string

reason

For transcodeBusy and notPlayable, why. For transcodeBusy: transcodeLimit or storageFull. For notPlayable: noTracks, fileUnplayable, subtitleUnplayable, transcodeFailed, keyframeIndexMissing or downloadsNotAllowed.

string

Allowed values: noTracks fileUnplayable subtitleUnplayable keyframeIndexMissing transcodeFailed transcodeLimit storageFull downloadsNotAllowed sourceUnreadable subtitlesUnavailable planUnreadable

mismatch

For fileUnplayable, the capability the file failed.

object

field

required

string

declared

The declared value, lists joined by commas; absent when the client declared none.

string

actual

required

string

retryAfterSeconds

For throttled and rateLimited, the Retry-After header’s value.

integer

errors

For invalidRequest, what’s wrong with which field.

Array<object>

object

field

required

A JSON pointer into the body, or a parameter name.

string

code

required

What’s wrong with a field: tooLarge for a file or list over its size, unsupported for a file in a format the server doesn’t take, unknownEpisodeGroup for a group:<ID> ordering TMDb doesn’t list for the series, and notABook for a work edited with books that isn’t one.

string

Allowed values: required invalid tooShort tooLong tooLarge unsupported outOfRange unknownEpisodeGroup notABook

plays

For streamLimit, the user’s plays, to show what is playing where.

Array<object>

One of the user’s plays, for the stream limit.

object

id

required

A UUIDv7.

string format: uuid

workId

required

A UUIDv7.

string format: uuid

title

required

string

clientName

The name of the session or API key it was started by.

string

startedAt

required

string format: date-time

message

For playEnded, the admin’s words to the viewer, when they gave any.

string

resetsAt

For quotaUsed, when the quota resets, when the provider said.

string format: date-time

Example

{
  "code": "invalidRequest",
  "reason": "noTracks",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "required"
    }
  ]
}

default

A server-side failure: 500 (code internal, or transcodeFailed for a play’s media), or 503 for something unavailable (codes providerUnavailable and transcodeBusy, for now; notConfigured, until an admin configures it).

Media typeapplication/problem+json

An RFC 9457 problem document. code is stable and is what clients translate.

object

type

required

A URI naming the problem type; about:blank when only code matters.

string

title

required

A short English summary, for logs.

string

status

required

integer

detail

English detail for logs and developers; never internal error text.

string

instance

string

code

required

A problem’s stable code, which clients translate. A client that doesn’t know a code goes by the response’s status.

string

Allowed values: invalidRequest unauthenticated invalidCredentials wrongPassword forbidden crossOrigin denied notFound expired notReady rangeNotSatisfiable conflict alreadySetUp nameTaken lastAdmin ownUser fileStillPresent kindMismatch notStoppable streamLimit notPlayable noFallback playEnded throttled rateLimited providerUnavailable notConfigured quotaUsed transcodeBusy transcodeFailed internal

requestId

required

The request ID, also in the X-Request-Id header and the server log.

string

reason

For transcodeBusy and notPlayable, why. For transcodeBusy: transcodeLimit or storageFull. For notPlayable: noTracks, fileUnplayable, subtitleUnplayable, transcodeFailed, keyframeIndexMissing or downloadsNotAllowed.

string

Allowed values: noTracks fileUnplayable subtitleUnplayable keyframeIndexMissing transcodeFailed transcodeLimit storageFull downloadsNotAllowed sourceUnreadable subtitlesUnavailable planUnreadable

mismatch

For fileUnplayable, the capability the file failed.

object

field

required

string

declared

The declared value, lists joined by commas; absent when the client declared none.

string

actual

required

string

retryAfterSeconds

For throttled and rateLimited, the Retry-After header’s value.

integer

errors

For invalidRequest, what’s wrong with which field.

Array<object>

object

field

required

A JSON pointer into the body, or a parameter name.

string

code

required

What’s wrong with a field: tooLarge for a file or list over its size, unsupported for a file in a format the server doesn’t take, unknownEpisodeGroup for a group:<ID> ordering TMDb doesn’t list for the series, and notABook for a work edited with books that isn’t one.

string

Allowed values: required invalid tooShort tooLong tooLarge unsupported outOfRange unknownEpisodeGroup notABook

plays

For streamLimit, the user’s plays, to show what is playing where.

Array<object>

One of the user’s plays, for the stream limit.

object

id

required

A UUIDv7.

string format: uuid

workId

required

A UUIDv7.

string format: uuid

title

required

string

clientName

The name of the session or API key it was started by.

string

startedAt

required

string format: date-time

message

For playEnded, the admin’s words to the viewer, when they gave any.

string

resetsAt

For quotaUsed, when the quota resets, when the provider said.

string format: date-time

Example

{
  "code": "invalidRequest",
  "reason": "noTracks",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "required"
    }
  ]
}