Heygen

heygen is a Rust SDK for interacting with the HeyGen API, providing an ergonomic and type-safe way to create and manage AI-generated videos.

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High level features

• Create AI-generated avatar videos with comprehensive configuration options
• Manage templates for premium HeyGen creators
• Handle webhook registrations and notifications
• List and retrieve video details and status
• Fully typed responses and error handling
• Built on top of reqwest for reliable HTTP communication

Usage example

use heygen::HeyGenBot;
use serde_json::json;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    // Create a new HeyGen client
    let client = HeyGenBot::new("your-api-key".to_string(), Some("https://api.heygen.com/v2/")).unwrap();

    // Create a video using an avatar
    let payload = json!({
        "video_inputs": [{
            "character": {
                "type": "avatar",
                "avatar_id": "Angela-inTshirt-20220820",
                "avatar_style": "normal"
            },
            "voice": {
                "type": "text",
                "input_text": "Hello from the HeyGen Rust SDK!",
                "voice_id": "1bd001e7e50f421d891986aad5158bc8",
                "speed": 1.1
            }
        }],
        "dimension": {
            "width": 1280,
            "height": 720
        }
    });

    // Generate the video
    match client.create_avatar_video(payload).await {
        Ok(response) => {
            if let Some(data) = response.data {
                println!("Video generated successfully! ID: {}", data.video_id);
            }
        }
        Err(e) => eprintln!("Error generating video: {}", e),
    }
}

Features

Video Generation

• Create avatar videos with customizable parameters
• Generate videos from templates (premium feature)
• Monitor video generation status
• List all generated videos

Template Management

• List available templates
• Retrieve template details
• Generate videos from existing templates

Webhook Management

• Register webhook endpoints
• List registered webhooks
• Update webhook configurations
• Delete webhook registrations

Avatar Management

• List all available avatars

Examples

The examples directory contains various examples showcasing different features:

To run an example use cargo run --example <example_file_name>

Getting Started

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
heygen = "0.1.2"

Documentation

For detailed documentation and API reference, check out heygen API.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in heygen by you shall be licensed as MIT, without any additional terms or conditions.