Mux Elixir

Official Mux API wrapper for Elixir projects, supporting both Mux Data and Mux Video.

Mux Video is an API-first platform, powered by data and designed by video experts to make beautiful video possible for every development team.

Mux Data is a platform for monitoring your video streaming performance with just a few lines of code. Get in-depth quality of service analytics on web, mobile, and OTT devices.

Not familiar with Mux? Check out https://mux.com/ for more information.

Installation

Add mux to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:mux, "~> 1.9.0"}
  ]
end

Quickstart

We'll put our access token in our application configuration.

# config/dev.exs
config :mux,
  access_token_id: "abcd1234",
  access_token_secret: "efghijkl"

Then use this config to initialize a new client in your application.

client = Mux.client()

You can also pass the access token ID and secret directly to client/2 function if you'd prefer:

client = Mux.client("access_token_id", "access_token_secret")

Now we can use the client to do anything your heart desires (to do with the Mux API). From here we can create new videos, manage playback IDs, etc.

{:ok, asset, raw_env} = Mux.Assets.create(client, %{input: "https://example.com/video.mp4"});

Every successful response will come back with a 3 item tuple starting with :ok. The second item is whatever's in the data key, which will typically be the the item you were interacting with. In the example above, it's a single asset. The third item is the raw Tesla Env, which is basically the raw response object. This can be useful if you want to get to metadata we include, such as the timeframe used or the total row count returned, or if you just want to get to headers such as the request ID for support reasons.

Usage in Phoenix

Creating a new client before making a request is simple, but you may not want to do it every single time you need to use a function in a controller. We suggest using action/2 to initialize the client and pass that to each of the controller functions.

def action(conn, _) do
  mux_client = Mux.client() # or Mux.client("access_token_id", "access_token_secret")
  args = [conn, conn.params, mux_client]
  apply(__MODULE__, action_name(conn), args)
end

def create(conn, params, mux_client) do
  # ...
  {:ok, asset, _} = mux_client |> Mux.Video.Assets.create(%{input: "http://example.com/input.mp4"})
  # ...
end

Verifying Webhook Signatures in Phoenix

Note that when calling Mux.Webhooks.verify_header/3 in Phoenix you will need to pass in the raw request body, not the parsed JSON. Phoenix has a nice solution for doing this example.

Read more about verifying webhook signatures in our guide

defmodule MyAppWeb.BodyReader do
  def read_body(conn, opts) do
    {:ok, body, conn} = Plug.Conn.read_body(conn, opts)
    conn = update_in(conn.assigns[:raw_body], &[body | &1 || []])
    {:ok, body, conn}
  end
end

# endpoint.ex
plug Plug.Parsers,
  parsers: [:urlencoded, :multipart, :json],
  pass: ["*/*"],
  body_reader: {MyAppWeb.BodyReader, :read_body, []},
  json_decoder: Phoenix.json_library()

# controller
signature_header = List.first(get_req_header(conn, "mux-signature"))
raw_body = List.first(conn.assigns.raw_body)
Mux.Webhooks.verify_header(raw_body, signature_header, secret)

You will most likely have to store the raw body before it gets parsed and then extract it later and pass it into Mux.Webhooks.verify_header/3

Publishing new versions

1. Update version in mix.exs
2. Update version in README
3. Commit and open a PR
4. After code is merged, tag master ex: git tag v1.7.0 and git push --tags
5. run mix publish