Terms of Use
Short, because the service is short: there is no account to create and nothing to install. These terms cover what is expected of a caller and what is not promised back.
Using the API means accepting these terms. There is no signup step at which to agree, so the first request is the agreement. If they are not acceptable, the service should not be used.
1. The service
VidSrc provides an interface for resolving film and television identifiers to stream URLs offered by third parties, and a player that plays them. It hosts no video. What it returns depends on services it does not control, and no result is guaranteed — see the disclaimer, which forms part of these terms.
2. What you may do
- Embed the player on a website you operate, including on a commercial site.
- Call the API from your own application, subject to the rate expectations below.
- Cache a resolved URL briefly, in your own application, to avoid repeating an identical request. Anything longer than minutes is pointless anyway — the links are transient by design.
3. What you may not do
- Resell the API as your own service, or present it as a product whose origin is concealed.
- Scrape the catalogue. Walking id ranges to build a list of what resolves is exactly the traffic that takes the service down for everyone.
- Circumvent rate limiting, whether by rotating addresses, using proxies, or distributing requests across many clients.
- Interfere with the service, including attempting to exhaust its upstream concurrency or filling its caches deliberately.
- Remove or obscure attribution where it is present, or misrepresent the service as licensed content.
- Use it for anything unlawful where you or the service are located, or to infringe anyone's rights.
4. Rate expectations
There is no key and therefore no per-key quota — limits are applied per address, and they are generous for a person and tight for a script. A caller making a reasonable number of requests will never notice them.
Resolving a stream means work upstream: several providers are tried before one answers. That cost is why bulk resolution is refused rather than merely discouraged.
5. Availability
The service is offered as is and as available. It may change, be interrupted, or be withdrawn, in whole or in part, at any time and without notice. No availability target is offered and none should be assumed.
6. No warranty, and limits on liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the service carries no warranty of any kind and the operators are not liable for any loss arising from its use or its unavailability, including lost profits, lost data, or losses from reliance on a link or a title match. The disclaimer sets out the detail.
7. Intellectual property
The name, the mark, and the code of this site belong to their owner. Titles, artwork and metadata reached through the service belong to their respective rights holders and are used descriptively to identify what a link points at.
8. Copyright and takedown
No video is hosted here, so there is nothing on this site to remove. That is not a way of avoiding the question, and a notice will still be read and answered.
A notice should include:
- identification of the work, and the specific URL on this site concerned;
- the name of the rights holder, or proof of authority to act for them;
- contact details for a reply;
- a statement that the use is not authorised, and that the information given is accurate.
Send it to [email protected]. Where a notice identifies a specific upstream provider, the response will say which one it is, because that is the party actually serving the file and the one able to act — and knowing which provider is involved is usually the most useful part of the answer.
9. Privacy
What is and is not collected is set out in the privacy policy, which forms part of these terms.
10. Changes
These terms may be revised as the service changes. The date at the top is the date of the last revision, and continuing to use the service afterwards means accepting the revised version.