ScreenPal API
ScreenPal's developer surface is the Solution Builder: a JavaScript SDK that embeds its recorder in a host app and delivers uploads via JS callback or webhook. There is no general REST API. Access is sales-led and plan-gated, with partner credentials issued after activation and no public sandbox.
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ScreenPal scores B+ on the API Report Card. ScreenPal's developer surface is the Solution Builder: a JavaScript SDK that embeds its recorder in a host app and delivers uploads via JS callback or webhook. There is no general REST API. Access is sales-led and plan-gated, with partner credentials issued after activation and no public sandbox.
ScreenPal has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Solid API with minor gaps
ScreenPal is an all-in-one screen recording, video editing, image editing, and video hosting platform that was rebranded in 2022 from Screencast-O-Matic (originally launched 2006 in Seattle).
Vertical: misc, a horizontal screen-recording, video-editing, and video-hosting tool that does not map to a single Supergood named vertical. A university professor records a 30-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 ScreenPal channel embedded in Canvas, Blackboard, D2L Brightspace, Moodle, or Schoology..
High in education, moderate in business, niche in developer tooling. ScreenPal publicly cites 9M+ users, 200M+ videos created, presence in 190 countries, and a customer list that includes 98 of the top 100 U.S. universities.
For education customers, ScreenPal hosts lecture recordings, captions, transcripts, and quiz/poll responses that double as compliance and accessibility artifacts under FERPA (student records), ADA / Section 508 (captioning), and institution-specific retention policies.
Founded 2006 in Seattle as Screencast-O-Matic; rebranded as ScreenPal in 2022 including a redesigned web app and an expanded AI feature set (auto-captions, transcripts, chapters, summaries, background removal, text-to-speech, 100+-language translation).
SDK access is sales-led and plan-gated (Team Business / Education / Enterprise), no self-serve developer signup, no public sandbox, no trial keys. Public docs are thin, the Solution Builder API reference covers the JS embed and webhook payload shape but leaves rate limits, error semantics, retry behavior, and auth specifics largely undocumented and deferred to partner support. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Loom (Atlassian), Camtasia (TechSmith), Snagit (TechSmith), Screencastify, Vidyard, OBS Studio. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
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.