is there an http api in OBS like there is in vmix?

[Mitchstein443]

I've been going through the forums and documention and I can not seem to find what I'm looking for. maybe someone can point me in the right direction?

In Vmix I had a powershell script that sent http requests to vimix to do things like get current active source, surce name, time left, etc but also could sent http urls to change sources, add sources remove them etc etc..

so far I found that the tuna plugin allows me to get the filename playing from a playlist, the duration, the position, status and time left.
I figured out how to parse that info and create txt files for the titles to update now playing and upnext at this time..

What I'd like to do is turn on and off these titles at specific intervals from a script that will run under powershell..

So in vmix I'd simple send http://127.0.0.1:8088/API/?Function=OverlayInput1In&Input=4" this would turn on (in) input number 4 to turn it off you change In to Out.

Is there anything like this in OBS or some otherway through url calls to do this?

 

[lebaston100]

Not natively. But you can use the websocket plugin https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-websocket-remote-control-obs-studio-from-websockets.466/ together with obs-websocket-http https://github.com/IRLToolkit/obs-websocket-http which bridges http requests to websocket.

 

[Mitchstein443]

will the websocket-http run on windows I only see install instructions for unbuntu?

 

[lebaston100]

It's just python so it in theory runs everywhere with python and the right packages installed.

 

[Mitchstein443]

I got alot of learning to do with changing over from vmix to obs. I guess i got the basics working, just wish I understood how I got them working lol.. is there an official documentation for it anywhere or is it all just here and there and fid it by googling it?

 

[lebaston100]

Doe to the nature of open source there are A LOT of third party tools that are not all in a central place but all over the internet. Some stuff is made for consumers that just want to install something and have it work, but a lot isn't.
As for your question i don't know of any other documentation for obs-websocket-http besides the github page. obs-websocket has a big protocol documentation linked and i'm sure there are lot's of tutorials about it out there.

 

[Mitchstein443]

yeah I know all about how open source works.. I'll have to go through the github more thouroughly then I did. Lol, the lst time Iwas doing anything with "open source" it was called freeware and shareware and we were trading it on our BBS's.. Of course I have been aware of it, just havn't used any of it in the last decade or so..