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Amara

Syncs video metadata and subtitle tracks across your content library, automates language track creation, and manages captioning workflows for global distribution.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Amara integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Amara calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Amara data, across all 30 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Amara access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Amara, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Amara is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Amara.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Amara action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Amara, and when to use it.

Add Subtitle Note
Use this to add a note to a subtitle set after you have retrieved the notes uri for that specific set.
Create Subtitle Language
Use this to add a new language track using an ISO 639 1 code before you upload subtitle files.
Fetch Subtitles Data
Pull subtitle segments for a video in a specific language once you have confirmed the video id and language code.
Get Subtitle Language Details
Retrieve metadata about a specific language track using the video id and language code.
Get Team Details
Pull metadata for a single team using their unique slug.
Get User Data
Fetch account details for a specific user by their username or id.
Get Video URL Details
Pull Amara metadata like id, title, and duration for a public or embeddable video url.
List Available Languages
Pull the full list of all supported languages available within the Amara platform.
List Subtitle Languages
Fetch all available subtitle languages currently associated with a specific video id.
List Teams
Retrieve a paginated list of all teams you have access to.
List Videos
Fetch a paginated list of videos with optional filters to find specific content.
List Video URLs
Retrieve every url associated with a video for embedding or processing purposes.
Make Video URL Primary
Designate a specific video url as the primary one for display after confirming the url id.
Update Subtitle Language
Adjust completeness flags or soft limit constraints for a subtitle language after reviewing settings.
View Video Details
Pull complete metadata for a given video using its unique id.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven uses the ISO 639 1 standard for all language requests in Amara. When you ask the agent to create a language track, it first validates the requested language against the list of available languages supported by the Amara API. If you provide a full name like Spanish, the agent maps it to es before sending the request. This ensures that the API call does not fail due to naming mismatches. You can also explicitly provide the two letter code to speed up the workflow and avoid any ambiguity during the provisioning of new subtitle tracks for your videos.
Ceven does not perform the translation inside Amara but it orchestrates the movement of data. The agent can fetch the subtitle segments from Amara, send them to a translation service or a human translator, and then push the translated text back into the correct language track. This means you can build a full loop where a video is uploaded, the agent creates the language tracks, manages the translation handoff, and finally updates the subtitle language status to complete once the text is returned and uploaded to the platform.
The primary limitation is the Amara API rate limit which varies based on your account tier. Amara employs strict throttling to ensure platform stability. If a Ceven workflow attempts to list thousands of videos or update hundreds of subtitle tracks in a few seconds, Amara may return a 429 too many requests error. Ceven handles this by implementing an exponential backoff strategy, meaning the agent will pause and retry the request automatically. For very large libraries, we recommend scheduling your audits in batches rather than triggering them all at once.
Many videos in Amara have multiple source URLs from different platforms. Ceven can list all associated URLs and then use the make video url primary action to designate which one should be the default for embedding. This is useful for users who migrate their hosting from one platform to another. The agent can scan your library, find videos pointing to an old host, and automatically switch the primary URL to the new host version without you having to manually edit each video record in the Amara dashboard.
Ceven can read team and user data to provide audits and reports on who has access to which projects. By using the list teams and get team details actions, the agent can generate a report of all active collaborators on a specific project. While the current integration focuses heavily on reading and managing the content side of subtitles, it provides the necessary visibility to ensure that only authorized users are assigned to sensitive video assets before you start the captioning process.
When using the get video url details action, Ceven relies on Amara to validate the link. If the URL is broken or not public, Amara returns an error which the Ceven agent interprets as a missing asset. The agent can then be programmed to flag these videos in a spreadsheet or notify a team member to update the link. This prevents your automation from failing silently and ensures that your captioning pipeline only processes videos that are actually accessible and ready for subtitle synchronization.
Yes, Ceven can add notes to subtitle sets to facilitate communication between editors and translators. The agent first retrieves the notes uri for the specific subtitle set and then posts the note. This is particularly useful for automated quality assurance workflows. For example, if an external tool detects a timing error in the captions, Ceven can automatically post a note in Amara at the exact subtitle set where the error occurred, alerting the human editor to the specific issue without requiring a separate email.
When you ask for a list of videos or teams, Amara returns the data in pages. Ceven is designed to handle this automatically by following the pagination cursors. If you ask for all videos in your account, the agent will make multiple sequential calls to the API until every record is retrieved. You will see the agent indicate that it is fetching more results in the activity log. This ensures that your reports and audits are comprehensive and do not just reflect the first twenty or fifty results returned by the initial API call.

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