canonical: https://jentic.com/apis/blitzreels.com/blitzreels

# BlitzReels API

The BlitzReels API creates AI-powered short-form video clips from a source and exports them to finished videos. An agent previews a YouTube source before clipping, generates clips with presets, and exports, promotes, or rejects them after review. It organizes work in clipping projects and a workspace media library, generates caption emoji accents, and tracks clip batches and export jobs across a large management surface.

## For AI agents

Create AI short-form video clips from a source, apply presets, and export them: preview YouTube sources, manage clips, clip batches, projects, and a workspace media library.

## Scope

Does not host a social account, run paid ads, or stream live video. Use for AI short-form clip creation and export only.

## Capabilities

- Create short-form clips from a source video
- Preview a YouTube source before clipping it
- Export a clip to a finished video
- List and apply clip presets for format and style
- Organize clips in clipping projects and a workspace media library
- Generate caption emoji accents for a project
- Validate an API key before running a clip batch

## Use cases

### Agent-driven clip creation

An AI agent turns a long video into publishable short-form clips. Through Jentic the agent previews a YouTube source, creates clips with a chosen preset, and exports each one to a finished video. The clips land in a clipping project where the agent can read their status before handing them off.

Example prompt: Preview a YouTube source, create clips with a vertical preset, and export the accepted clips to finished videos

### Review-and-promote workflow

A creator keeps a human in the loop before a clip ships. The API lets a clip be rejected or repaired after visual review, and a visually accepted export can be promoted as a managed delivery. An agent can create the batch, surface the clips for review, and promote only the approved ones.

Example prompt: List the clips in a batch, promote the exports a reviewer accepted, and reject the rest

### Media library management

A team keeps its source media organized across projects. The API manages a workspace media library with folders and assets, and exposes the latest clip batch for a media asset, so an agent can find a source, clip it, and track the resulting batch. Batch and asset operations keep the library tidy between runs.

Example prompt: Find a media asset, read its latest clip batch, and create new clips from the same source

## Key endpoints

| Method | Path | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| GET | `/clips` | List clips |
| POST | `/clips` | Create clips |
| GET | `/clips/{clip_id}` | Get a clip |
| POST | `/clips/{clip_id}/export` | Export a clip |
| GET | `/clips/presets` | List available clip presets |
| GET | `/clips/source-preview` | Preview a YouTube source before clipping |
| GET | `/clipping-projects` | List clipping projects |
| GET | `/auth/validate` | Validate API key |

## Key resources

- **Clips** — Create, read, export, reselect, reject, and repair clips
- **Clip batches** — Track, recover, and archive batches of generated clips
- **Clipping projects** — List and organize clipping projects and their captions
- **Media library** — Manage workspace media folders and assets
- **Presets** — List clip presets for format and style

## AI readiness

This API is usable in Jentic One now. Its AI-readiness score against Jentic's framework shows where it stands today and where improvements would make it even easier for agents to use.

- **Score:** 49 / 100
- **Maturity:** Foundational
- **Dimensions:**
  - Foundational Compliance: 47 / 100
  - Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility: 69 / 100
  - AI-Readiness & Agent Experience: 44 / 100
  - Agent Usability: 43 / 100
  - Security: 50 / 100
  - AI Discoverability: 62 / 100
- **View full report:** https://jentic.com/apis/blitzreels.com/blitzreels/scorecard
- **How the score is calculated:** https://docs.jentic.com/reference/api-readiness-framework/overview/
- **More about the dimensions:** https://docs.jentic.com/reference/api-readiness-framework/specification/#dimensional-model-overview

### Score it yourself

Every API in the directory is allowlisted, so you can re-score it with no key required.

- **Score your own API:** https://jentic.com/scorecard.md
- **Scoring CLI agent skill:** https://github.com/jentic/jentic-api-scorecard/blob/main/skills/jentic-api-scorecard/SKILL.md

```sh
npx @jentic/api-scorecard-cli score <openapi-url>
```

## Why Jentic

- **Setup:** Wiring the BlitzReels API by hand means handling its API key in the Authorization header as a bearer value, polling clip and export jobs across a large surface, and tracking clip batches and media assets yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import it from the API Directory, store the key once, and your agent calls it.
- **Permission scoping:** The BlitzReels API puts the clip id in the URL path (`/clips/{clip_id}`), so a rule can pin your agent to the clip operations it needs: it can create and export clips and read their status without reaching workspace recovery or batch-delete operations. You choose the operations it may call, so destructive ones like deleting a clip or emptying a media folder are not included unless you add them.
- **Credential handling:** Your BlitzReels API key is held once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
- **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'create short-form clips' or 'export a video clip', and Jentic returns the matching BlitzReels operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

## Related APIs

- **Creatomate** — Renders video from templates and data
- **JSON2Video** — Builds videos programmatically from a JSON scene description
- **Shotstack** — Edits and renders video timelines via API

## FAQ

### What authentication does the BlitzReels API use?

The BlitzReels API authenticates with an API key sent in the Authorization header as a bearer value per its OpenAPI spec. Through Jentic the key is injected at call time by your own Jentic One instance, so it never enters the agent's prompt or logs.

### Can I create clips from a YouTube video with the BlitzReels API?

Yes. The source-preview operation previews a YouTube source before clipping, and the create-clips operation generates short-form clips from it. Each clip can then be exported to a finished video through the export operation.

### What are the rate limits for the BlitzReels API?

The OpenAPI spec does not specify rate limits. Check the provider's site at https://blitzreels.com for current limits before running large clip batches.

### Is there a BlitzReels MCP server?

You don't need an MCP server to give your agent the BlitzReels API. Jentic connects it directly from the API Directory: import it, store your key once, and your agent calls it, so you skip installing and syncing a separate server.

### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the BlitzReels API?

Yes. Write a rule that allows only the clip create, export, and read operations, so your agent can produce and download clips but cannot empty a media folder or batch-delete projects. Every call it makes is logged.

### How do I create and export a clip with the BlitzReels API through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'create short-form clips' and it returns the create-clips operation with its input schema; the agent passes a source and a preset, then exports each clip through the export operation. To run it on your own infrastructure, install Jentic One from its GitHub repo.