What's playing right now

The media item currently on the overlay screen, with its live playback position. position_seconds is the position within the video (start offset + elapsed time), capped at the video’s known duration; it is null while the queue is paused (pausing clears the timing anchor) or when no anchor exists. Requires media:read.

GET/media/now

Authorization

AuthorizationBearer token (tp_live_...) · headerrequired

A TipPage API key, created in Dashboard → Settings → Developer.

Responses

200Current playback state.

playingboolean

A media item is on screen right now.

is_pausedboolean

visibleboolean

Whether the media player is shown on the overlay.

mediaQueueMediaItem | any

Show properties

One of:

QueueMediaItem

order_idstring

donor_namestring

media_urlstring<uri>

media_start_timeinteger

Start offset in seconds.

video_titlestring | null

video_thumbnailstring<uri> | null

video_durationinteger

Duration in seconds (0 = unknown).

platformstring

requested_viastring

tip | chat | admin | channel_point | ...

is_replayboolean

queued_atstring<date-time>

any

any

started_atstring<date-time> | null

When playback of the current item began.

position_secondsinteger | null

Live position within the video, in seconds.

401Missing or invalid API key (`missing_api_key` / `invalid_api_key`).

errorstringrequired

Human-readable message.

codestring

Machine-readable code (e.g. `missing_scope`, `not_in_queue`).

403The key lacks the required scope (`missing_scope`).

errorstringrequired

Human-readable message.

codestring

Machine-readable code (e.g. `missing_scope`, `not_in_queue`).

required_scopestring

429Rate limit exceeded - check the `RateLimit-*` headers.

errorstring

Request

curl -X GET "https://api.tippage.com/v1/media/now" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"

const response = await fetch("https://api.tippage.com/v1/media/now", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"
  }
});

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.tippage.com/v1/media/now",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"
    },
)

Response

{
  "playing": true,
  "is_paused": true,
  "visible": true,
  "media": {
    "order_id": "string",
    "donor_name": "string",
    "media_url": "http://example.com",
    "media_start_time": 0,
    "video_title": "string",
    "video_thumbnail": "http://example.com",
    "video_duration": 0,
    "platform": "youtube",
    "requested_via": "string",
    "is_replay": true,
    "queued_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z"
  },
  "started_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "position_seconds": 0
}