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Request structure

Service URL format

Developers need to specify the corresponding access address based on the geographical region of their server when sending requests to the ZEGOCLOUD server.

Warning

To ensure the quality of your business service access, please prioritize using the domain name of the geographical region where your server is located as the access address when sending requests to the ZEGOCLOUD server.

ZEGOCLOUD supports request access from the following geographical regions:

RegionAPI base URL
Chinese Mainland (Shanghai)${PRODUCT}-api-sha.zego.im
Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan (Hong Kong)${PRODUCT}-api-hkg.zego.im
Europe (Frankfurt)${PRODUCT}-api-fra.zego.im
Western United States (California)${PRODUCT}-api-lax.zego.im
Asia-Pacific (Mumbai)${PRODUCT}-api-bom.zego.im
Southeast Asia (Singapore)${PRODUCT}-api-sgp.zego.im
Unified access address (regardless of region)${PRODUCT}-api.zego.im

In this context, PRODUCT refers to different services provided by ZEGOCLOUD, and in this particular product, it is mini-game, for instance, mini-game-api.zego.im.

Communication protocol

For secure communications, all the Server APIs must be accessed via HTTPS requests.

Request methods

The operations of the ZEGOCLOUD server API support the following HTTP request methods:

  • GET
  • POST
Note

For a GET request, all request parameters (including common parameters and business-related parameters) should be placed in the Query. For a POST request, special and complex parameters can be placed in the Request Body.

Common parameters

This section describes the Common parameters that are used when you call an operation of the ZEGOCLOUD server API, including Common request parameters and Common response parameters.

Common request parameters

Common request parameters are the parameters that are required for every API request.

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
AppIdUint32YesThe application ID, which is a unique credential assigned by ZEGOCLOUD for the request sender.
SignatureStringYesThe signature. For more information about how to generate a signature, see the Signature method section of this topic.
SignatureNonceStringYesA random string.
SignatureVersionStringYesThe version of the signature. Default value: 2.0.
TimestampInt64YesThe UNIX timestamp. Unit: seconds. The time deviation from the actual time must be within 10 minutes.

Sample request:

  • Request URL:

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    https://mini-game-api.zego.im/?Action=DescribeGameLaunchCode
    &AppId=1234567890
    &SignatureNonce=15215528852396
    &Timestamp=1234567890
    &Signature=7a2c0f11145fb760d607a07b54825013
    &SignatureVersion=2.0
    
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  • Request message body:

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    {
        "RoomId": "room_123",
        "MiniGameId": "TinyLoveWar",
        "AnchorId": "anchor1",
        "Nickname": "anchor",
        "Avatar": "http://xxx",
        "Sex": 1
    }
    
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Common response parameters

All responses to API requests are returned in a unified format, with the returned data in JSON format.

The following common response parameters will be included in the response to every request, regardless of whether the request is successful.

ParameterTypeDescription
CodeNumberReturn code.
MessageStringRequest result description.
RequestIdStringRequest ID.
DataObjectResponse data.
Sample response
{
    "Code": 0,
    "Message": "",
    "RequestId": "8411281679140263090",
    "Data": {
        "CurrencyBalance":102,
    }
}
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Signing the requests

To ensure secure API calls, the ZEGOCLOUD server authenticates every API request, which means a request signature must be included in every API request.

Warning
A new signature needs to be generated for every API request.

1. Get the AppId and Server Secret Key

To generate a request signature, you will need to use the AppId and ServerSecret assigned to your project by ZEGOCLOUD. The AppId is used as the identifier of the request sender, and ServerSecret is the secret key to generate the signature string on the request sender side and verify the signature on the ZEGOCLOUD server. To ensure system security, please keep this information strictly confidential.

After you create a project in the ZEGOCLOUD console, you can obtain the values of the AppID and ServerSecret parameters. For more information, see How to view project information.

2. Generate a signature

  1. Signature parameters
ParameterDescription
AppIdThe application ID. After you create a project in the ZEGOCLOUD console, you can obtain the value of the AppID parameter from the project information. For more information, see How to view project information.
SignatureNonceA random number. The value must be the same as that of the SignatureNonce parameter in the common request parameters. For more information about how to generate a random number, see the "Signature example" section of this topic.
ServerSecretThe secret key. After you create a project in the ZEGOCLOUD console, you can obtain the value of the ServerSecret parameter from the project information. For more information, see How to view project information.
TimestampThe UNIX timestamp. Unit: seconds. For more information about how to generate a timestamp, see the "Signature example" section of this topic. The time deviation from the actual time must be within 10 minutes.
Note

The values of the SignatureNonce and Timestamp parameters used to generate the signature must be consistent with those of the common parameters.

  1. Signature algorithm

Signature = md5(AppId + SignatureNonce + ServerSecret + Timestamp)

  1. Format of the Signature string

The Signature is a hex string of 32 characters in lower case.

3. Signature example code

ZEGOCLOUD provides sample code in various programming languages for generating the signature.

Go
Python
Java
PHP
Node.js
import (
   "crypto/md5"
   "crypto/rand"
   "encoding/hex"
   "fmt"
   "log"
   "time"
)
// Signature=md5(AppId + SignatureNonce + ServerSecret + Timestamp)
func GenerateSignature(appId uint32, signatureNonce string, serverSecret string, timestamp int64) (Signature string){
   data := fmt.Sprintf("%d%s%s%d", appId, signatureNonce, serverSecret, timestamp)
   h := md5.New()
   h.Write([]byte(data))
   return hex.EncodeToString(h.Sum(nil))
}
func main() {
   /*Generate a random hexadecimal string of 16 characters. */
   nonceByte := make([]byte, 8)
   rand.Read(nonceByte)
   signatureNonce := hex.EncodeToString(nonceByte)
   log.Printf(signatureNonce)
   appId := 12345       // Use your AppId
   serverSecret := "9193cc662a4c0ec135ec71fb57194b38"    // Use your  ServerSecret
   timestamp := time.Now().Unix()
   /* appId:12345
      signatureNonce:4fd24687296dd9f3
      serverSecret:9193cc662a4c0ec135ec71fb57194b38
      timestamp:1615186943      2021/03/08 15:02:23
      signature:43e5cfcca828314675f91b001390566a
    */
   log.Printf("signature:%v", GenerateSignature(uint32(appId), signatureNonce, serverSecret, timestamp))
}
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# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
import secrets
import string
import hashlib
import time
#Signature=md5(AppId + SignatureNonce + ServerSecret + Timestamp)
def GenerateSignature(appId, signatureNonce, serverSecret, timestamp):
    str1 = str(appId) + signatureNonce + serverSecret + str(timestamp)
    hash = hashlib.md5()
    hash.update(str1.encode("utf8"))
    signature = hash.hexdigest()
    return signature

def main():
    # Generate a random hexadecimal string of 16 characters. 
    signatureNonce = secrets.token_hex(8)

    # Use the application ID and server secret of your project.
    appId = 12345
    serverSecret = "9193cc662a4c0ec135ec71fb57194b38"
    # Obtain a 10-digit UNIX timestamp.
    timestamp = int(time.time())
    print(GenerateSignature(appId,signatureNonce,serverSecret,timestamp))

if __name__ == '__main__': main()

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import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.SecureRandom;
public class Md5{
    /**
     * Converts the byte array to a hexadecimal string.
     * @param bytes The byte array to be converted.
     * @return  The generated hexadecimal string.
     */
    public static String bytesToHex(byte[] bytes) {
        StringBuffer md5str = new StringBuffer();
        // Convert each byte of the array to a hexadecimal string and concatenate all the generated hexadecimal strings into an MD5 string.
        int digital;
        for (int i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
            digital = bytes[i];
            if (digital < 0) {
                digital += 256;
            }
            if (digital < 16) {
                md5str.append("0");
            }
            md5str.append(Integer.toHexString(digital));
        }
        return md5str.toString();
    }
    // Signature=md5(AppId + SignatureNonce + ServerSecret + Timestamp)
    public static String GenerateSignature(long appId, String signatureNonce, String serverSecret, long timestamp){
        String str = String.valueOf(appId) + signatureNonce + serverSecret + String.valueOf(timestamp);
        String signature = "";
        try{
            // Create an object that provides the message-digest algorithm, and initialize the object as an MD5 algorithm object.
            MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
            // Obtain a byte array after calculation.
            byte[] bytes = md.digest(str.getBytes("utf-8"));
            // Convert each byte of the array to a hexadecimal string and concatenate all the generated hexadecimal strings into an MD5 string.
            signature = bytesToHex(bytes);
        }catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return signature;
    }


    public static void main(String[] args){
        // Generate a random hexadecimal string of 16 characters.
        byte[] bytes = new byte[8];

        // Obtain a cryptographically strong random number generator by using the `SecureRandom` class.
        SecureRandom sr = new SecureRandom();

        sr.nextBytes(bytes);
        String signatureNonce = bytesToHex(bytes);
        long appId = 12345L;       // Use the application ID and server secret of your project. Append an "L" or "l" to the application ID to indicate that the application ID is of the LONG type.
        String serverSecret = "9193cc662a4c0ec135ec71fb57194b38";
        long timestamp = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L;
        System.out.println(GenerateSignature(appId,signatureNonce,serverSecret,timestamp));
    }
}
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<?php
function GenerateSignature($appId, $signatureNonce, $serverSecret, $timestamp)
{
    $str = $appId.$signatureNonce.$serverSecret.$timestamp;
    $signature = md5($str);
    return $signature;
}

// Generate a random hexadecimal string of 16 characters.
$signatureNonce = bin2hex(random_bytes(8));
// Use the application ID and server secret of your project.
$appId = 12345;
$serverSecret = "9193cc662a4c0ec135ec71fb57194b38";
$timestamp = time();
$signature = GenerateSignature($appId, $signatureNonce, $serverSecret, $timestamp);
echo $signature;
?>
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const crypto = require('crypto'); 
//Signature=md5(AppId + SignatureNonce + ServerSecret + Timestamp)
function GenerateUASignature(appId, signatureNonce, serverSecret, timeStamp){
    const hash = crypto.createHash('md5'); // Use the MD5 hash algorithm.
    var str = appId + signatureNonce + serverSecret + timeStamp;
    hash.update(str);
    //hash.digest('hex') indicates that the output is in the hexadecimal format.
    return hash.digest('hex');
}

var signatureNonce = crypto.randomBytes(8).toString('hex');
// Use the application ID and server secret of your project.
var appId = 12345;
var serverSecret = "9193cc662a4c0ec135ec71fb57194b38";
var timeStamp = Math.round(Date.now()/1000);
console.log(GenerateUASignature(appId, signatureNonce, serverSecret, timeStamp));
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Signature failures

When a signature verification fails, an error code will be returned.

Return codeDescription
100000004Signature expired.
100000005Invalid signature.

Identity authentication

If you receive a callback from the ZEGOCLOUD server, we recommend that you authenticate the identity of the callback sender by using a signature. The signature is generated by calculating an MD5 value of the AppId, SignatureNonce, CallbackSecret, and Timestamp parameters.

The CallbackSecret parameter value must be kept strictly confidential. For more information about how to obtain the CallbackSecret parameter value, see How to view project information.

The callback from the ZEGOCLOUD server carries the signature_nonce, timestamp, and signature parameters. You can use the following formula to calculate a signature to authenticate the identity of ZEGO:

Signature = MD5(AppId + SignatureNonce + CallbackSecret + Timestamp)

The signature is a hexadecimal string of 32 characters in lowercase.

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