How do I protect my vid.lys with the PRO service?

You have a number of choices to make when choosing who, where and when people view your Vid.lys. There's also a progression of API calls to make in order to acheive protected results .

You can use a mix of IP ranges & Expiration dates & tokens. Use one or all three!

DATE CONTROLS: Examples: (from http://api.vid.ly/#AddMedia)

This example is of an XML that will allow the start date of the vid.ly to be September 22, 2015.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Query>
    <Action>AddMedia</Action>
    <userid>[userid]</userid>
    <userkey>[userkey]</userkey>
    <Source>
        <sourcefile>[sourcefile]</sourcefile>
        <Protect>
            <StartDate>2015-09-22 00:00:00</StartDate>
        </Protect>
    </Source>
</Query>

XML sample of Vid.ly that will expire @ September 25, 2015.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Query>
    <Action>AddMedia</Action>
    <userid>[userid]</userid>
    <userkey>[userkey]</userkey>
    <Source>
        <sourcefile>[sourcefile]</sourcefile>
        <Protect>
            <ExpirationDate>2015-09-25 00:00:00</ExpirationDate>
        </Protect>
    </Source>
</Query>

XML Sample of Vid.ly that will allow the Vid.ly to be available on September 22, but expire on the 25th of September 2015.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Query>
    <Action>AddMedia</Action>
    <userid>[userid]</userid>
    <userkey>[userkey]</userkey>
    <Source>
        <sourcefile>[sourcefile]</sourcefile>
        <Protect>
            <StartDate>2015-09-22 00:00:00</StartDate>
            <ExpirationDate>2015-08-25 00:00:00</ExpirationDate>
        </Protect>
    </Source>
</Query>

IP RANGE: Feel free to use a number of dates and IP ranges to customize your protection. With the <ipaddress> tag, you can use multiples of these, or send a comma delimited list.

Example:

..which is equivalent to:

IP addresses can be defined as below:

192.168.1.50 – just a single IP
192.168.1.1-50 – IP range from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.50
192.168.1.* – IP range from .0 to .255
192.168.1-10.* – even bigger IP range
192.168.2.*,192.168.3.1-50,192.168.4.100 – several masks combined, separated with comma.

via XML API, use this as a template for protecting via IP:

<Query>
    <Action>AddMedia</Action>
    <UserID>[User ID]</UserID>
    <UserKey>[User key]</UserKey>
    <Notify>[Notify URL]</Notify>
    <Source>
        <SourceFile>[SourceFile1]</SourceFile>
        <Protect>
            <IpAddress>89.100.11.*,89.100.12.1-20,89.100.13.50</IpAddress>
        </Protect>
    </Source>
</Query>

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