Photo story, Creator native 1.0.0
| Template | Photo story, tpl_8cd4b197ba09 |
|---|---|
| Variant | Creator native |
| Version | 1.0.0, the newest: what a channel following this variant draws |
| Shapes | 9x16, 4x5, 1x1, 16x9, 2x3 |
| Length | 13 seconds |
Example video
The 1x1 cut of this version, drawn from its own worked example. Open the video on its own.
What it accepts
A short story told in pictures: two to eight pictures in turn, each pushing in slowly with where and when and one line beside it, the title on the first and the credit on the last, while a segment per picture fills with the story. metaData is the post's title, descriptions and hashtags and is never drawn.
| Field | Type | Required | Limit | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
clipData | group | yes | Clip data: Everything drawn: a kicker and the title on the first picture, the pictures in order with a line and a place each, how they are laid in, the credit on the last and the look. | |
clipData.kicker | text | up to 20 characters | Kicker: A word above the title, such as IN PICTURES or 100 YEARS. | |
clipData.title | text | yes | up to 70 characters | Title: The story's title, on the first picture, which is the cover. |
clipData.shots | list | yes | at least 2, up to 8 | Pictures: In the order they are shown, each with its line. Two to eight, each adding a little over three seconds. |
clipData.shots[] | group | Picture | ||
clipData.shots[].picture | image | yes | media:// file from the media library, alt text up to 120 characters | Picture |
clipData.shots[].line | text | yes | up to 90 characters | Line: One or two sentences read while the picture is on screen. |
clipData.shots[].place | text | up to 40 characters | Where and when: Above the line, such as Old quay, 1926. | |
clipData.pictureFit | enum | fill, whole | Picture fit: Fill each picture's frame for photographs; show them whole for logos, plans or cut-out products. | |
clipData.credit | text | up to 60 characters | Credit: Who the pictures are by, on the last picture. | |
clipData.look | group | Look: How the clip looks and moves within its style. The same five switches in every format of the collections. Leave a switch out, or set it to the style's own, and the style decides. | ||
clipData.look.theme | enum | auto, brand, light, dark, bold | Theme: The style's own choice; your brand's own colours and background; a light or dark page tinted with your brand colour; or your brand colour as the page. | |
clipData.look.pace | enum | auto, calm, standard, punchy | Pace: How things arrive: the style's own rhythm, calm fades, a standard rhythm, or punchy slams and cuts. | |
clipData.look.corners | enum | auto, square, soft, round | Corners: The shape of cards, panels and marks. | |
clipData.look.align | enum | auto, start, centre | Text alignment: Where the text lines up. | |
clipData.look.logo | enum | auto, free | Logo: The style's own: the logo on the style's plate (a card, a disc, a badge) so it reads on any page. As it is: the logo whole, with no plate, frame or crop, for a logo made to stand on the page, such as one with a transparent background. As it is, make sure your logo reads on the page of the theme you choose. | |
metaData | group | Meta data: Everything about the post that is never drawn in the clip: its title, its description in four lengths, one per kind of platform, and its hashtags. Reelwire adds the brand's description, link and hashtags after it. Left out, the post text is generated from the clip data. | ||
metaData.title | text | up to 100 characters | Title: Used where the platform has a title of its own: Facebook Feed, LinkedIn, Pinterest and YouTube. Up to 100 characters, which every one of them takes. | |
metaData.captionTiny | text | up to 200 characters | Tiny description (Pinterest, Threads, X): Up to 200 characters. The brand's description, link and hashtags follow it within the platform's limit. | |
metaData.captionShort | text | up to 500 characters | Short description (Telegram, Threema, WeChat, WhatsApp): Up to 500 characters. The brand's description, link and hashtags follow it within the platform's limit. | |
metaData.captionMedium | text | up to 1500 characters | Medium description (Discord, Facebook Reels, Instagram, LinkedIn, Signal, Slack, TikTok): Up to 1500 characters. The brand's description, link and hashtags follow it within the platform's limit. | |
metaData.captionLong | text | up to 4000 characters | Long description (Facebook Feed, YouTube): Up to 4000 characters. The brand's description, link and hashtags follow it within the platform's limit. | |
metaData.hashtags | list | up to 15 | Hashtags: Written without the #. Up to 15, which every platform takes. | |
metaData.hashtags[] | text | up to 60 characters | Hashtag |
locales carries other languages: under each language code, the parts of clipData and metaData that differ, laid over the default, so a language with no copy still renders.
A picture is always a file from your media library: media:// followed by its id or its name.
Anything the table does not list is refused, and so is anything over its limit, with a 422 that
names the field.
The JSON Schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"clipData": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"kicker": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 20,
"title": "Kicker",
"description": "A word above the title, such as IN PICTURES or 100 YEARS."
},
"title": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 70,
"title": "Title",
"description": "The story's title, on the first picture, which is the cover."
},
"shots": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"picture": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 2048,
"pattern": "^media:\\/\\/[^\\s/\\\\\\u0000-\\u001f][^/\\\\\\u0000-\\u001f]{0,254}$",
"title": "Picture",
"description": "A file from the workspace's media library, written media:// and the file's id or name. A web address is refused."
},
"alt": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 120,
"title": "Alt text",
"description": "What the picture shows, for anyone who cannot see it."
}
},
"required": [
"url"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"title": "Picture"
},
"line": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 90,
"title": "Line",
"description": "One or two sentences read while the picture is on screen."
},
"place": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 40,
"title": "Where and when",
"description": "Above the line, such as Old quay, 1926."
}
},
"required": [
"picture",
"line"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"title": "Picture"
},
"minItems": 2,
"maxItems": 8,
"title": "Pictures",
"description": "In the order they are shown, each with its line. Two to eight, each adding a little over three seconds."
},
"pictureFit": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"fill",
"whole"
],
"title": "Picture fit",
"description": "Fill each picture's frame for photographs; show them whole for logos, plans or cut-out products.",
"enumNames": [
"Fill the frame",
"Show it whole"
]
},
"credit": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 60,
"title": "Credit",
"description": "Who the pictures are by, on the last picture."
},
"look": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"theme": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"auto",
"brand",
"light",
"dark",
"bold"
],
"title": "Theme",
"description": "The style's own choice; your brand's own colours and background; a light or dark page tinted with your brand colour; or your brand colour as the page.",
"enumNames": [
"The style's own",
"Brand colours",
"Light",
"Dark",
"Bold brand colour"
]
},
"pace": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"auto",
"calm",
"standard",
"punchy"
],
"title": "Pace",
"description": "How things arrive: the style's own rhythm, calm fades, a standard rhythm, or punchy slams and cuts.",
"enumNames": [
"The style's own",
"Calm",
"Standard",
"Punchy"
]
},
"corners": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"auto",
"square",
"soft",
"round"
],
"title": "Corners",
"description": "The shape of cards, panels and marks.",
"enumNames": [
"The style's own",
"Square",
"Softly rounded",
"Round"
]
},
"align": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"auto",
"start",
"centre"
],
"title": "Text alignment",
"description": "Where the text lines up.",
"enumNames": [
"The style's own",
"At the start of the line",
"Centred"
]
},
"logo": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"auto",
"free"
],
"title": "Logo",
"description": "The style's own: the logo on the style's plate (a card, a disc, a badge) so it reads on any page. As it is: the logo whole, with no plate, frame or crop, for a logo made to stand on the page, such as one with a transparent background. As it is, make sure your logo reads on the page of the theme you choose.",
"enumNames": [
"The style's own",
"As it is, no plate or crop"
]
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"title": "Look",
"description": "How the clip looks and moves within its style. The same five switches in every format of the collections. Leave a switch out, or set it to the style's own, and the style decides."
}
},
"required": [
"title",
"shots"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"title": "Clip data",
"description": "Everything drawn: a kicker and the title on the first picture, the pictures in order with a line and a place each, how they are laid in, the credit on the last and the look."
},
"metaData": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"title": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 100,
"title": "Title",
"description": "Used where the platform has a title of its own: Facebook Feed, LinkedIn, Pinterest and YouTube. Up to 100 characters, which every one of them takes."
},
"captionTiny": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 200,
"title": "Tiny description (Pinterest, Threads, X)",
"description": "Up to 200 characters. The brand's description, link and hashtags follow it within the platform's limit."
},
"captionShort": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 500,
"title": "Short description (Telegram, Threema, WeChat, WhatsApp)",
"description": "Up to 500 characters. The brand's description, link and hashtags follow it within the platform's limit."
},
"captionMedium": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 1500,
"title": "Medium description (Discord, Facebook Reels, Instagram, LinkedIn, Signal, Slack, TikTok)",
"description": "Up to 1500 characters. The brand's description, link and hashtags follow it within the platform's limit."
},
"captionLong": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 4000,
"title": "Long description (Facebook Feed, YouTube)",
"description": "Up to 4000 characters. The brand's description, link and hashtags follow it within the platform's limit."
},
"hashtags": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 60,
"title": "Hashtag"
},
"maxItems": 15,
"title": "Hashtags",
"description": "Written without the #. Up to 15, which every platform takes."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"title": "Meta data",
"description": "Everything about the post that is never drawn in the clip: its title, its description in four lengths, one per kind of platform, and its hashtags. Reelwire adds the brand's description, link and hashtags after it. Left out, the post text is generated from the clip data."
},
"locales": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"clipData": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"kicker": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 20,
"title": "Kicker",
"description": "A word above the title, such as IN PICTURES or 100 YEARS."
},
"title": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 70,
"title": "Title",
"description": "The story's title, on the first picture, which is the cover."
},
"shots": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"picture": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 2048,
"pattern": "^media:\\/\\/[^\\s/\\\\\\u0000-\\u001f][^/\\\\\\u0000-\\u001f]{0,254}$",
"title": "Picture",
"description": "A file from the workspace's media library, written media:// and the file's id or name. A web address is refused."
},
"alt": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 120,
"title": "Alt text",
"description": "What the picture shows, for anyone who cannot see it."
}
},
"required": [
"url"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"title": "Picture"
},
"line": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 90,
"title": "Line",
"description": "One or two sentences read while the picture is on screen."
},
"place": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 40,
"title": "Where and when",
"description": "Above the line, such as Old quay, 1926."
}
},
"required": [
"picture",
"line"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"title": "Picture"
},
"minItems": 2,
"maxItems": 8,
"title": "Pictures",
"description": "In the order they are shown, each with its line. Two to eight, each adding a little over three seconds."
},
"pictureFit": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"fill",
"whole"
],
"title": "Picture fit",
"description": "Fill each picture's frame for photographs; show them whole for logos, plans or cut-out products.",
"enumNames": [
"Fill the frame",
"Show it whole"
]
},
"credit": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 60,
"title": "Credit",
"description": "Who the pictures are by, on the last picture."
},
"look": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"theme": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"auto",
"brand",
"light",
"dark",
"bold"
],
"title": "Theme",
"description": "The style's own choice; your brand's own colours and background; a light or dark page tinted with your brand colour; or your brand colour as the page.",
"enumNames": [
"The style's own",
"Brand colours",
"Light",
"Dark",
"Bold brand colour"
]
},
"pace": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"auto",
"calm",
"standard",
"punchy"
],
"title": "Pace",
"description": "How things arrive: the style's own rhythm, calm fades, a standard rhythm, or punchy slams and cuts.",
"enumNames": [
"The style's own",
"Calm",
"Standard",
"Punchy"
]
},
"corners": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"auto",
"square",
"soft",
"round"
],
"title": "Corners",
"description": "The shape of cards, panels and marks.",
"enumNames": [
"The style's own",
"Square",
"Softly rounded",
"Round"
]
},
"align": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"auto",
"start",
"centre"
],
"title": "Text alignment",
"description": "Where the text lines up.",
"enumNames": [
"The style's own",
"At the start of the line",
"Centred"
]
},
"logo": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"auto",
"free"
],
"title": "Logo",
"description": "The style's own: the logo on the style's plate (a card, a disc, a badge) so it reads on any page. As it is: the logo whole, with no plate, frame or crop, for a logo made to stand on the page, such as one with a transparent background. As it is, make sure your logo reads on the page of the theme you choose.",
"enumNames": [
"The style's own",
"As it is, no plate or crop"
]
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"title": "Look",
"description": "How the clip looks and moves within its style. The same five switches in every format of the collections. Leave a switch out, or set it to the style's own, and the style decides."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"title": "Clip data",
"description": "Everything drawn: a kicker and the title on the first picture, the pictures in order with a line and a place each, how they are laid in, the credit on the last and the look."
},
"metaData": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"title": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 100,
"title": "Title",
"description": "Used where the platform has a title of its own: Facebook Feed, LinkedIn, Pinterest and YouTube. Up to 100 characters, which every one of them takes."
},
"captionTiny": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 200,
"title": "Tiny description (Pinterest, Threads, X)",
"description": "Up to 200 characters. The brand's description, link and hashtags follow it within the platform's limit."
},
"captionShort": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 500,
"title": "Short description (Telegram, Threema, WeChat, WhatsApp)",
"description": "Up to 500 characters. The brand's description, link and hashtags follow it within the platform's limit."
},
"captionMedium": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 1500,
"title": "Medium description (Discord, Facebook Reels, Instagram, LinkedIn, Signal, Slack, TikTok)",
"description": "Up to 1500 characters. The brand's description, link and hashtags follow it within the platform's limit."
},
"captionLong": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 4000,
"title": "Long description (Facebook Feed, YouTube)",
"description": "Up to 4000 characters. The brand's description, link and hashtags follow it within the platform's limit."
},
"hashtags": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 60,
"title": "Hashtag"
},
"maxItems": 15,
"title": "Hashtags",
"description": "Written without the #. Up to 15, which every platform takes."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"title": "Meta data",
"description": "Everything about the post that is never drawn in the clip: its title, its description in four lengths, one per kind of platform, and its hashtags. Reelwire adds the brand's description, link and hashtags after it. Left out, the post text is generated from the clip data."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
},
"propertyNames": {
"enum": [
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"ab",
"ae",
"af",
"ak",
"am",
"an",
"ar",
"as",
"av",
"ay",
"az",
"ba",
"be",
"bg",
"bi",
"bm",
"bn",
"bo",
"br",
"bs",
"ca",
"ce",
"ch",
"co",
"cr",
"cs",
"cu",
"cv",
"cy",
"da",
"de",
"dv",
"dz",
"ee",
"el",
"en",
"eo",
"es",
"et",
"eu",
"fa",
"ff",
"fi",
"fj",
"fo",
"fr",
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"gd",
"gl",
"gn",
"gu",
"gv",
"ha",
"he",
"hi",
"ho",
"hr",
"ht",
"hu",
"hy",
"hz",
"ia",
"id",
"ie",
"ig",
"ii",
"ik",
"io",
"is",
"it",
"iu",
"ja",
"jv",
"ka",
"kg",
"ki",
"kj",
"kk",
"kl",
"km",
"kn",
"ko",
"kr",
"ks",
"ku",
"kv",
"kw",
"ky",
"la",
"lb",
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"li",
"ln",
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"lt",
"lu",
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"mg",
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"mr",
"ms",
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"no",
"nr",
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"ro",
"ru",
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"se",
"sg",
"si",
"sk",
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"sm",
"sn",
"so",
"sq",
"sr",
"ss",
"st",
"su",
"sv",
"sw",
"ta",
"te",
"tg",
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"xh",
"yi",
"yo",
"za",
"zh",
"zu",
"zh-CN",
"zh-TW",
"pt-BR"
]
}
}
},
"required": [
"clipData"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}
Ask Reelwire for the same document yourself, without signing in:
curl "http://localhost:4000/v1/formats/template/tpl_8cd4b197ba09?variant=Creator%20native&version=1.0.0"
Delivery JSON
Your own system sends this to one of your streams, POST /v1/stream, and every channel listening to
that stream draws it with its template. data is the document described above; a stream with an
empty field map passes it to the template unchanged. Try it first on POST /v1/stream/validate,
which answers the same without publishing anything. Streams and feeds
explains the rest, including how to map a document of your own shape instead.
{
"streamId": "st_your_stream_id",
"eventId": "01M2SQMKK3G1NVFXV31DCBVB95",
"occurredAt": "2026-09-23T07:00:00Z",
"locale": "en",
"data": {
"clipData": {
"kicker": "New exhibition",
"title": "Colour and water: the autumn exhibition, room by room",
"shots": [
{
"line": "Inks dropped into still water, photographed at a thousandth of a second.",
"place": "Room one, the ink tank",
"picture": {
"alt": "Clouds of red and blue ink in water",
"url": "media://example-image.png"
}
},
{
"line": "The same colours, traced into slow waves and printed four metres wide on silk.",
"place": "Room two, the silk hall",
"picture": {
"alt": "Soft waves of blue, violet and orange",
"url": "media://example-image.jpg"
}
},
{
"line": "And back outside: the hills above the town, drawn in layers of evening light.",
"place": "Room three, the fells at dusk",
"picture": {
"alt": "Hills under an evening sky, drawn in layers",
"url": "media://example-image.svg"
}
}
],
"pictureFit": "fill",
"credit": "Pictures: Halden Gallery and the exhibiting artists",
"look": {
"theme": "auto",
"pace": "auto",
"corners": "auto",
"align": "auto",
"logo": "auto"
}
},
"metaData": {
"title": "Colour and water: the autumn exhibition at the Halden Gallery, room by room",
"captionTiny": "Colour and water, the autumn exhibition at the Halden Gallery, in three rooms: ink caught in still water, waves of colour printed on silk, and the fells at dusk.",
"captionShort": "Colour and water, the autumn exhibition at the Halden Gallery, room by room. Room one shows inks dropped into still water and photographed at a thousandth of a second. Room two traces the same colours into slow waves, printed four metres wide on silk. Room three goes back outside, to the hills above the town drawn in layers of evening light.",
"captionMedium": "Colour and water, the autumn exhibition at the Halden Gallery, room by room. It starts in room one with a glass tank: inks dropped into still water and photographed at a thousandth of a second, each picture a moment nobody saw with their own eyes. In room two the same colours are traced into slow waves and printed four metres wide on silk, hung so they move a little as you walk past. Room three goes back outside, to the hills above the town, drawn in layers of evening light. The exhibition is open every day from 10 to 6, and entry is free.",
"captionLong": "Colour and water, the autumn exhibition at the Halden Gallery, room by room. It starts in room one with a glass tank: inks dropped into still water and photographed at a thousandth of a second, each picture a moment nobody saw with their own eyes. The tank is in the room too, and twice a day the artists drop a new colour into it while visitors watch. In room two the same colours are traced into slow waves and printed four metres wide on silk, hung so they move a little as you walk past. Room three goes back outside, to the hills above the town, drawn in layers of evening light from sketches made on the ridge path over one summer. The exhibition is open every day from 10 to 6, entry is free, and a guided walk through all three rooms starts at 2 every Saturday. The pictures are by the Halden Gallery and the exhibiting artists.",
"hashtags": [
"exhibition",
"haldengallery",
"art",
"photography"
]
}
}
}
The delivery names no version: which build draws it is the channel's choice, the newest of its
variant or the one it is pinned to. eventId is a ULID you make once per event: sending the same
one again changes nothing. occurredAt is when the thing happened, not when you sent it. locale
is the language of the text in data, and data.locales carries other languages beside it.