HTTP API

POST /api/v1/ask

The same generator the website uses. No key, no account.

curl -X POST https://api.ffmpeguru.com/api/v1/ask \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"question":"extract the audio as mp3"}'

Request

Field	Type	Notes
question	string	required, 8–2000 characters

Response

{
  "message_id": 21,
  "conversation_id": 17,
  "command": "ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vn -acodec libmp3lame output.mp3",
  "explanation": "The -vn flag disables video decoding...",
  "room": "audio",
  "notes": ["Add -y to overwrite without prompting."],
  "memory_used": true,
  "degraded": false
}

memory_used tells you whether another visitor's stored answer influenced this one. degraded means the memory store was unreachable and the answer came from the model alone.

Rejections

Status	Meaning
400	Not a recognisable FFmpeg request. Nothing was generated.
429	Rate limited (5/min/IP).
503	Storage unavailable, so the conversation could not be recorded.

Every 400 carries a detail explaining the decision, for example not a recognisable FFmpeg request.