OpenRouter Video Generation API: A Code-First Guide
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OpenRouter offers a unified API for video generation that abstracts the complexity of different video providers.
Instead of integrating each provider separately — Seedance, Veo, Wan, and others — you use the same endpoint, authentication, and job queue logic for all. You send a prompt to POST /api/v1/videos, receive a job ID, poll until the video is ready, then retrieve the MP4. Because video generation takes several seconds to minutes, OpenRouter uses an asynchronous system where your app can continue while generation runs in the background, and the job is stored so you can retrieve it later even after restart.
Each provider can have its own endpoint, request parameters, job statuses, polling logic, and output format. That turns a simple model change into another integration to build and maintain.
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