Context Script

Overview: Below is information pertaining to how IRIS.TV’s Contextual Video Marketplace integrates with the IRIS.TV Context Script. The Context Script gives publishers the ability to retrieve contextual information for a given video asset. This is meant to be used as a part of your existing ad workflow to send contextual data through your ad server. This documentation will walk through how to add the Context Script and workflows for adding the data to your ad tags.

See example implementation page here: https://ovp.iris.tv/demos/context/iris-context-api.html

Prerequisites

Before adding the Context Script the following needs to be completed:

A feed with video URLs needs to be provided for IRIS.TV to import and add context to assets. These URLs need to link to either MP4 or m3u8 files.
An ad tag that can be appended with context category information within the “cust_params” field.
Ad targeting on the context category needs to be set up through the ad server, supply side, and demand side.

Please speak to your IRIS.TV representative for details on these requirements.

This workflow requires two values:

client_token: Authentication string associated with each client. This will be provided by IRIS.TV once the content feed is imported.
platform_id: The reference ID for the video from the publisher’s CMS.

Building the Integration

The order of operations for retrieving the contextual data is as follows:

IRIS.TV Context Script is loaded with the page.
The Context Script is initialized.
Call the Context Script with the platform_id for the video that is about to play to receive the videos contextual segments.
Add the contextual segments to the pre-roll ad tag.

This process should be repeated as you iterate through the video playlist.

Installing the Script

Add the following script to the top of your page: https://ovp.iris.tv/libs/context/iris-context.min.js

NOTE: The script should be loaded as a high priority to ensure you can receive context information for the pre-roll of the initial video.

An example of adding the script to your page HTML:

<script src=”https://ovp.iris.tv/libs/context/iris-context.min.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>

If you do not want to load the script as a high-priority, there is an event that you can listen to at the global changes to ensure that the context methods are available. An example of setting up that event listener:

window.addEventListener(‘IrisContextAPI’, function() {
    // window.IrisContextAPI is ready to be used
});

Initializing the Script

To initialize the script, provide your client token to the IrisContextAPI Object

   var IrisContext = window.IrisContextAPI({
      client_token: '<your client token here>'
   });

Using the Script

Once the script is initialized, you can send in a video ID to receive the context segment on the video. These methods are:

getContext – requests the context information for the video ID.
getVideoInfo – requests context category information for the video ID.

Parameters for these methods:

platform_id: the CMS reference ID of the video. Required.

Please confirm with your IRIS.TV representative

Where the context field should be added within the ad tag (i.e. in the “cust_params” field in a DFP tag).

getContext

To retrieve the context use the following method:

IrisContext.getContext('<platform_id of video here>', function(data) { 
  // data is ready to be used
  // where data is an object of the form { context: [‘ctx-value’] }
  console.log(data.context);
});

Here’s an example of the response from the Context Script for getContext:

{
  platform_id: '6026440620001',
  context: ["e883d22ce29c85f9e910281d2a410c5bad77a098"]
}