camera clip URL isn't valid.

[bartdorsey]

I tried to fetch the clip URL and I get this JSON response back from the blink servers:

{"message":"Media not found","code":700}

So I'm assuming the clip URL we have isn't the correct one that blink actually uses for the video clip. How are you reverse engineering what the blink app does?

[madshall]

Can you show me the code you used?

[madshall]

Maybe they've changed something else along with auth endpoints. Can you fetch thumbnail?

[bartdorsey]

So I also tried to grab the getVideos url at '/api/v2/videos' and that returns

{ message: 'An app update is required' }

Here's some sample code I was using

const Blink = require('node-blink-security');
const request = require("request");

const blink = new Blink(
    "XXXXXXX",
    "xXXXXXX",
    "BlinkCameras",
    {
        auth_2FA: false
    }
);

(async () => {
    try {
        await blink.setupSystem();
        const cameras = await blink.getCameras();
        blink.getLinks();
        const cam = cameras["1090611"];
        request(
            {
                url: cam.clip,
                headers: blink._auth_header,
                json: true
            },
            (err, response, body) => {
                console.log(body);
            }
        );

        request({
            url: blink.urls.base_url + '/api/v2/videos',
            headers: blink._auth_header,
            json:true
        }, (err, response, body) => {
            console.log(body);
        })
    }
    catch (e) {
        console.error(e);
    }
})();

So it seems they've changed a lot of the default URLs.

[bartdorsey]

BTW the thumbnail url works.

[madshall]

What are you trying to achieve? Do you want to record video from your camera or access a previously recorded clip?

[madshall]

Try using blink.getVideos() with the latest version - 4.1.4

[bartdorsey]

Thanks, hopefully I'll have a chance to try this this week sometime.