To access Viz Ticker functions, use standard REST HTTP calls to the Media Sequencer used by the Ticker System. The full Media Sequencer API documentation can be accessed by browsing:

It is advisable to read the Media Sequencer API documentation carefully in order to use the REST API effectively. Most programming and scripting languages have built in support for HTTP calls which makes it easy to interface Ticker via the REST API. It is beyond the scope of this document to explain REST (Representational State Transfer) in detail. There are many good internet resources for this. A good starting point for reading about REST would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer.

In the following examples we use the free curl utility to send REST calls and tidy to do a basic XML formatting, see The curl and tidy Utilities. Other tools can of course be used. For example Telerik’s Fiddler2 (http://www.telerik.com/fiddler) is quite popular.

The basic workflow:

1. Send the REST API command you require to port 8580 on the Media Sequencer running the Ticker System.

2. Media Sequencer sends the response as XML in UTF-8.