# POST /v1/music/video-to-music (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03

> Video To Music

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/music/video-to-music?output_format=mp3_22050_32' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY" \
  -F 'videos=@sample.bin'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| videos | body | string[] | Yes | One or more video files... |
| output_format | query | string | No | Output format of the generated audio.... |
| description | body | string | No | Optional text description of the musi... |

## Response (200 OK)
"binary"

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