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Overview - Getting Started

Kaltura API Credentials — Setup Guide​

How to obtain and configure the credentials needed for all Kaltura API integrations.

Applies to: All Kaltura API services and embeddable components
Time to complete: ~5 minutes (existing account) or ~15 minutes (new account)
Output: A populated .env file ready for any guide in this project

When to Use​

  • First-time developers setting up their Kaltura API environment from scratch.
  • Development teams onboarding new engineers to an existing Kaltura integration.
  • AI agents that need to programmatically validate credentials before making API calls.

Get a Kaltura Account​

Sign up for a Kaltura account at:

https://corp.kaltura.com/pricing/

Upon account creation, you receive:

CredentialDescription
Partner IDNumeric account identifier
Admin SecretMaster API key for generating sessions

Enterprise users with existing accounts: contact your Kaltura administrator for access.

Credentials are permanent per account. The Admin Secret is the single key used for all session generation — KS type (0 or 2) determines whether the resulting session has user-level or admin-level privileges.