Is there any way to fetch vertical (or non-vertical) videos via API

[lrkissling]

Background

We are using the /search/published endpoint of the Content API to search for videos by tag, using an OpenSearch query akin to q=type:video+AND+taxonomy.tag.text:"test". We would also like to filter by whether a video is a vertical video or not.

Issue

While the ANS for videos includes a additional_properties.vertical field that indicates whether a video has a vertical aspect ratio, this field is not available for searching or filtering in Content API.

Question

Is there any way I am not aware of to fetch videos via API, filtering by video aspect ratio? We could add a vertical-video tag and filter that way, but that requires Video Center users to properly tag vertical videos which may be unreliable.

[lrkissling]

We ended up creating a video type called "Vertical Video" that automatically applies the "vertical-video" tag. Then we filter out videos with that tag via q=type:video+AND+taxonomy.tag.text:"test"+AND+NOT+taxonomy.tag.text:"vertical-video".

I don't think this is an ideal solution (it'd be better to be able to filter on the additional_properties.vertical metadata) but it works well enough for us.