Screencast-O-Matic API
ScreenPal (formerly Screencast-O-Matic) offers a narrow, gated surface: a Video SDK and a JavaScript-embed Channel Recorder API with a webhook callback, not a general REST API. Access requires Team Business (25+ creators) or Team Education plans and an email to sales for activation.
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Screencast-O-Matic scores B+ on the API Report Card. ScreenPal (formerly Screencast-O-Matic) offers a narrow, gated surface: a Video SDK and a JavaScript-embed Channel Recorder API with a webhook callback, not a general REST API. Access requires Team Business (25+ creators) or Team Education plans and an email to sales for activation.
Screencast-O-Matic has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Solid API with minor gaps
Screencast-O-Matic, rebranded as ScreenPal in 2022 (screencast-o-matic.com now redirects to screenpal.com), is an all-in-one screen recording, video editing, and video hosting platform first launched in 2006.
Primary vertical: misc, a horizontal screen-recording and video tool. A professor records a 20-minute lecture from the ScreenPal desktop recorder with webcam picture-in-picture, trims dead air in the built-in editor, lets the AI generate captions and a transcript, then publishes to a hosted channel that's embedded in Canvas or Blackboard for students.
High in education, moderate in business. ScreenPal publicly claims 9M+ users, 200M+ videos created, and presence in 190 countries since 2006.
For education customers, ScreenPal hosts lecture recordings, captions, and quiz responses that double as compliance/accessibility artifacts (FERPA, ADA captioning).
Founded 2006 in Seattle, making ScreenPal nearly 20 years old as of 2026.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.