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In this article:

  • Publish your video
  • Check if the video is available
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Publishing a video

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Yandex Cloud
Updated at January 26, 2026
  • Publish your video
  • Check if the video is available

You can publish a video and check its availability.

Publish your videoPublish your video

Cloud Video UI
API
  1. Upload a video.
  2. Wait until the video is completely uploaded, processed, and gets the Ready status.

By default, all videos are published after uploading, changing their status to Published.

If you want to unpublish a video, disable the Grant access option. The Public access field value will change to Unpublished and your video will become unreachable via links.

Use the performAction REST API method for the Video resource or the VideoService/PerformAction gRPC API call.

Check if the video is availableCheck if the video is available

Cloud Video UI
API
  1. Open the Cloud Video home page.
  2. Select a channel.
  3. In the Video tab, select your video.
  4. On the opened page with video parameters, select the link tab under Past code.
  5. Click Copy.
  6. Open a new browser page and paste the obtained URL to the address bar.
  7. Click the Play button.

Use the getPlayerURL REST API method for the Video resource or the VideoService/GetPlayerURL gRPC API call.

See alsoSee also

Getting an embed code or link to a video
Downloading a video

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