Slop TV for developers.And their agents.

Slop TV's pages read the same JSON API that agents and developers can use. It is small, public and read-mostly. No key, no account.

• Base URL: https://slop-tv.view.fast/api/
• Everything is JSON. Times are milliseconds since the Unix epoch. Durations are seconds.
• Errors look like {"error": {"code": "not_found", "message": "No such clip."}} with a 4xx or 5xx status. Branch on code.
• Be polite. One read usually answers the question. If you must follow the channel, read at most once every 3 seconds.
• Act for a person. Don't crawl /api/. Crawlers are asked to stay out in robots.txt.

Read what is on

GET /api/poll?lite=1

Returns {serverTime, channel, items, pulled, falEnabled}. items is the channel's timeline from a minute ago to five minutes ahead. The item on air is the one where startAt <= serverTime < startAt + duration * 1000. Each item has id, kind (clip, ad or ident), title, startAt, duration, src (the video), poster, and for clips by (the requester's generated on-air name) and refId (the clip's id). Drop any item whose refId is in pulled.

Use lite=1. Without it, and on GET /api/schedule, the reader counts as a viewer, and viewers keep the studio rendering. An agent should not keep the lights on.

Read the clip library

• GET /api/library?sort=new&limit=20: clips that aired. sort is new, top (most reactions, then hearts, then airings) or today (the top of the last 24 hours). limit is 1 to 300. Filter with tag= or format=.
• GET /api/today: the top ten clips made in the last 24 hours.
• GET /api/clips/{id}: one clip, or 404 not_found.
• GET /api/tags: the tags and formats in use, with counts.
• GET /api/guide: a few airings per hour across the day, for a programme guide.
• GET /api/queue: requests waiting and rendering, shown by their on-air titles, plus typical render times.
• GET /api/health: whether the channel and its studio are up.

A clip has id, title, name (who asked, as a generated handle like sleepy-ocelot), videoUrl (MP4), posterUrl, duration, format, tags, airs, likes, reactions (laugh, wow, love, clap, total), createdAt and source (viewer, sequel, or seed for Spacefast's own shows, which also carry seed: true).

Share a clip

Every clip has a page at https://slop-tv.view.fast/c/{id}. Link previews read its Open Graph tags: the title, who asked for it, the video and its poster. Link to that page rather than to the MP4. The site can't be framed (frame-ancestors 'none'), so link to it instead of embedding it.

Request a clip

Only when a person asks you to. Each clip costs real money to render, and a daily budget caps them.

1. GET /api/me. The response sets a viewer cookie, sst_v. Keep it and send it back. The body is {"name": "..."}: the on-air name requests from this cookie air under.
2. Wait at least 3 seconds. A cookie younger than that gets 409 tune_in_first.
3. POST /api/prompts with Content-Type: application/json, the cookie, and {"text": "an idea for fifteen seconds of TV"}. The text is 3 to 400 characters.
4. 201 returns {"prompt": {...}} with its id, its status and vetted (whether the standards desk has read it yet).
5. Follow it with GET /api/mine?ids={id} (up to 20 ids, same cookie). Each item has status (queued, generating, ready, rejected, failed, expired or pulled), its place in line as pos while queued, a reason when it didn't make it, and once vetted its on-air title. A ready clip has aired once firstAiredAt <= serverTime. A ready clip's page is https://slop-tv.view.fast/c/{id}.

The answers you will meet:

• 422 rejected: the standards desk turned it away. The message says why when it is safe to. Everything on air is PG-13. No real people, no real brands, no famous characters.
• 429 rate_limited: one request every 30 seconds per viewer.
• 429 too_many_open: three requests waiting per viewer at most.
• 429 desk_said_no: five refusals pause a viewer for up to 15 minutes.
• 429 queue_full or busy: the line is long. Try later.
• 413 too_large: bodies are capped at 16 KB.

New requests are also capped site-wide, so a busy minute can say no to everyone. When the day's budget is spent, requests wait in line until the next day.

Votes, likes and reactions are for people watching, and they need a viewer who has been watching. They are not part of the agent API.

Phone or text the request line

People can call or text +1 412-557-4880 (US). A voice assistant called Harlan takes the request. Calls are recorded. Texts become requests too, and nothing is sent back. The same rules apply as on the web, plus three requests an hour and ten a day per number.

The request line talks to the channel over a private MCP endpoint that needs a key held by the phone provider. There is no public MCP server.

More

• The site, for agents: https://slop-tv.view.fast/llms.txt
• The homepage as Markdown: https://slop-tv.view.fast/index.md
• About: https://slop-tv.view.fast/about/
• Contact: https://slop-tv.view.fast/contact/