Generation

Generating visuals with the Abyssale REST API

Basically, visuals are created by injecting your data (and customisation parameters) into your template.

The generation process is straightforward:

1. Design your template in Abyssale (or use one from the Abyssale library) (Check out this video if you would like to design your template)

2. Send your data through the API

3. Once your generation API request has been executed, there are 2 ways to get your visuals:

1. Synchronously

Synchronous means that the Abyssale process will wait for your visual to be generated before responding to the API call.

The API response will then contain your generated asset & additional information.

An example of synchronous JPEG generation

Contraints using the synchronous response type:

• Available for static templates only

• Only a single static image (jpeg, png, pdf) can be generated in this way (hence a single format of your template).

Here are the related documentations using the synchronous response type:

• Generate a single Image

• Generate a single PDF

2. Asynchronously

Asynchronous means that the Abyssale process will process your generation request as soon as it become ready. The API response will only contain a generation_request_id.

From that point, there are 2 possibilities to obtain your visuals.

1. Webhooks:

Once the generation is finished, Abyssale will post the response to a given URL. The associated event is NEW_BANNER_BATCH.

Example of Abyssale Webhook server posting to the callback URL

2. Polling:

You can check the progress of an asynchronous generation by periodically calling an Abyssale endpoint with your initial generation_request_id.

An example of an Abyssale call to check the progress of a generation request.

Here are the related documentations using the asynchronous response type:

• Generate Images

• Generate animated HTML5 ads

• Generate Videos

• Generate animated GIFs