curl --request GET \
--url https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"documents": [
{
"createdAt": "2026-10-22T10:00:00.000Z",
"id": "ffd_abc123",
"name": "Lower third",
"ownerID": "vid_abc123",
"scope": "story",
"sceneID": "<string>"
}
]
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "bad_request",
"message": "The request was malformed or contained invalid parameters."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "unauthorized",
"message": "Authentication is required. Provide a valid API key."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "forbidden",
"message": "You don't have permission to access this resource."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "not_found",
"message": "The requested resource was not found."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "conflict",
"message": "The request conflicts with the resource's current state, e.g. an Idempotency-Key whose first request is still in progress. Retry once it settles."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "rate_limited",
"message": "You have exceeded the rate limit. Please slow down."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "server_error",
"message": "An unexpected error occurred"
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "not_implemented",
"message": "The requested operation is not implemented."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "unavailable",
"message": "A dependency was unavailable and the request was not executed. Safe to resend unchanged after the Retry-After delay."
}List Tella Motion documents
Lists Tella Motion documents you can edit, newest first. With storyId, a video’s: its Tella Motion clips’ and the documents its overlays and b-roll play. Without it, your documents that no video plays yet. Every one plays live where the video uses it, so an edit shows in the video at once. Tella Motion media in the library is a frozen snapshot, which becomes a new document of the video’s when placed.
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.tella.com/v1/motion/documents")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"documents": [
{
"createdAt": "2026-10-22T10:00:00.000Z",
"id": "ffd_abc123",
"name": "Lower third",
"ownerID": "vid_abc123",
"scope": "story",
"sceneID": "<string>"
}
]
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "bad_request",
"message": "The request was malformed or contained invalid parameters."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "unauthorized",
"message": "Authentication is required. Provide a valid API key."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "forbidden",
"message": "You don't have permission to access this resource."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "not_found",
"message": "The requested resource was not found."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "conflict",
"message": "The request conflicts with the resource's current state, e.g. an Idempotency-Key whose first request is still in progress. Retry once it settles."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "rate_limited",
"message": "You have exceeded the rate limit. Please slow down."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "server_error",
"message": "An unexpected error occurred"
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "not_implemented",
"message": "The requested operation is not implemented."
}{
"docsUrl": "https://docs.tella.com/",
"error": "unavailable",
"message": "A dependency was unavailable and the request was not executed. Safe to resend unchanged after the Retry-After delay."
}Authorizations
API key obtained from your Tella account settings
Query Parameters
The video (vid_…) whose documents to list. Leave it out for your documents that no video plays yet.
"vid_abc123"
Response
OK
Tella Motion documents you can edit, newest first: the video's (its Tella Motion clips' and the documents its overlays and b-roll play), or without a video, yours that no video plays yet.
Hide child attributes
Hide child attributes
"2026-10-22T10:00:00.000Z"
Document ID
"ffd_abc123"
"Lower third"
The owner's ID: the video's, for story documents; yours, for user documents.
"vid_abc123"
Who owns the document: story for a video's own documents (its Tella Motion clips, overlays and b-roll), user for one of yours that no video plays yet.
"story"
The clip that plays this document, when it is a Tella Motion clip's. Absent for overlays and b-roll.
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