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AddLiveWatermark

Last updated: 2023-09-06 15:06:17

1. API Description

Domain name for API request: live.tencentcloudapi.com.

After a watermark is added and a watermark ID is successfully returned, you need to call the CreateLiveWatermarkRule API to bind the watermark ID to a stream.
After the number of watermarks exceeds the upper limit of 100, to add a new watermark, you must delete an old one first.

A maximum of 100 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

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2. Input Parameters

The following request parameter list only provides API request parameters and some common parameters. For the complete common parameter list, see Common Request Parameters.

Parameter Name Required Type Description
Action Yes String Common Params. The value used for this API: AddLiveWatermark.
Version Yes String Common Params. The value used for this API: 2018-08-01.
Region No String Common Params. This parameter is not required for this API.
PictureUrl Yes String Watermark image URL.
Unallowed characters in the URL:
;(){}$>`#"'|
WatermarkName Yes String Watermark name.
Up to 16 bytes.
XPosition No Integer Display position: X-axis offset in %. Default value: 0.
YPosition No Integer Display position: Y-axis offset in %. Default value: 0.
Width No Integer Watermark width or its percentage of the live streaming video width. It is recommended to just specify either height or width as the other will be scaled proportionally to avoid distortions. The original width is used by default.
Height No Integer Watermark height, which is set by entering a percentage of the live stream image’s original height. You are advised to set either the height or width as the other will be scaled proportionally to avoid distortions. Default value: original height.

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name Type Description
WatermarkId Integer Watermark ID.
RequestId String The unique request ID, which is returned for each request. RequestId is required for locating a problem.

4. Example

Example1 Sample request

Input Example

https://live.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=AddLiveWatermark
&PictureUrl=http://watermark-10005041.cos.myqcloud.com/1251830167/watermark_img_Alogo.png
&XPosition=80
&YPosition=10
&WatermarkName=logo
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "3c140219-cfe9-470e-b241-907877d6fb03",
        "WatermarkId": 123
    }
}

5. Developer Resources

SDK

TencentCloud API 3.0 integrates SDKs that support various programming languages to make it easier for you to call APIs.

Command Line Interface

6. Error Code

The following only lists the error codes related to the API business logic. For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.

Error Code Description
InternalError.ConfOutLimit The number of templates exceeded the limit.
InternalError.DBError DB execution error.
InternalError.WatermarkAddError Failed to add the watermark.
InvalidParameter Invalid parameter.
ResourceNotFound.ForbidService You are blocked.
ResourceNotFound.FreezeService Service suspended.
ResourceNotFound.StopService The service has been suspended due to account arrears. Please top up it to a positive balance to activate the service first.
ResourceNotFound.UserDisableService You disabled the service.
ResourceNotFound.UserNotFount The user does not exist.