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Glossary

CreateLiveSnapshotTemplate

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Last updated: 2025-10-30 21:48:02

1. API Description

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

This API is used to create a screencapture template. After a template ID is returned, you need to call the CreateLiveSnapshotRule API to bind the template ID to a stream. You can create up to 50 screencapture templates.

To learn more about the live screencapture feature, see Live Screencapture.

A maximum of 200 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: CreateLiveSnapshotTemplate.
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.
TemplateName Yes String Template name.
Maximum length: 255 bytes.
Only letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens can be contained.
CosAppId Yes Integer COS application ID.
CosBucket Yes String COS bucket name.
Note: the value of CosBucket cannot contain -[appid].
CosRegion Yes String COS region.
Description No String Description.
Maximum length: 1,024 bytes.
Only letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens can be contained.
SnapshotInterval No Integer Screencapturing interval (s). Default value: 10
Value range: 2-300
Width No Integer Screenshot width. Default value: 0 (original width)
Value range: 0-3000
Height No Integer Screenshot height. Default value: 0 (original height)
Value range: 0-2000
PornFlag No Integer Whether to enable porn detection. 0: no, 1: yes. Default value: 0
CosPrefix No String COS Bucket folder prefix.
If no value is entered, the default value
/{Year}-{Month}-{Day}
will be used.
CosFileName No String COS filename.
If no value is entered, the default value
{StreamID}-screenshot-{Hour}-{Minute}-{Second}-{Width}x{Height}{Ext}
will be used.

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name Type Description
TemplateId Integer Template 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

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: live.intl.tencentcloudapi.com
Content-Type: application/json
X-TC-Action: CreateLiveSnapshotTemplate
<Common request parameters>

{
    "CosRegion": "beijing",
    "Description": "testDesc",
    "SnapshotInterval": "10",
    "PornFlag": "0",
    "CosBucket": "bucket",
    "TemplateName": "testName",
    "Height": "250",
    "CosAppId": "123",
    "Width": "250"
}

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "TemplateId": 1000,
        "RequestId": "3c140219-cfe9-470e-b241-907877d6fb03"
    }
}

5. Developer Resources

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

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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
FailedOperation.CallOtherSvrFailed Failed to call the internal service.
FailedOperation.CosBucketNotExist The COS bucket does not exist.
FailedOperation.CosBucketNotPermission You don’t have permission to access the COS bucket.
FailedOperation.CosRoleNotExists The COS role does not exist. Please go to the “Feature Configuration > Live Screencapture & Porn Detection” page of the CSS console to grant the permission.
InternalError Internal error.
InternalError.ArgsNotMatch For the transcoding template adding API.
InternalError.ConfInUsed The template is in use.
InternalError.ConfNotFound The template does not exist.
InternalError.ConfOutLimit The number of templates exceeded the limit.
InternalError.InvalidInput Parameter check failed.
InternalError.NotFound The record does not exist.
InternalError.RuleAlreadyExist The rule has already been configured.
InternalError.RuleInUsing The rule is in use.
InternalError.RuleNotFound The rule does not exist.
InvalidParameter Invalid parameter.
InvalidParameter.COSCustomFileNameError Incorrect custom COS filename.
InvalidParameterValue Invalid parameter value.
MissingParameter Parameter missing.
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.
UnsupportedOperation.NotLVBCodeMode Not a LVB code/new console mode

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