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Introduction

Seedance is an AI video service provided by Ace Data Cloud, featuring ByteDance’s Seedance video generation model. Through the unified API of Ace Data Cloud, you can quickly call Seedance using cURL to achieve text-to-video, image-to-video, audio generation, multiple resolutions, and other functions.

Prerequisites

  • Have an Ace Data Cloud account and obtain an API Token
  • Terminal environment with cURL installed

Basic Usage

The main endpoint for calling the Seedance API is:
POST https://api.acedata.cloud/seedance/videos
This example uses the doubao-seedance-1-0-pro-250528 model.
Available models include: doubao-seedance-1-5-pro-251215, doubao-seedance-1-0-pro-250528, doubao-seedance-1-0-pro-fast-251015.
Complete cURL command example:
curl -X POST https://api.acedata.cloud/seedance/videos \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "doubao-seedance-1-0-pro-250528", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "A kitten yawning --rs 720p --rt 16:9 --dur 5"}]}'
Please replace YOUR_API_TOKEN with the actual token you obtained from the Ace Data Cloud platform.

Response Example

A successful call returns data in JSON format, for example:
{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    ...
  }
}

Using jq to Process Response

It is recommended to use the jq tool for formatted output:
curl -s -X POST https://api.acedata.cloud/seedance/videos \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "doubao-seedance-1-0-pro-250528", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "A kitten yawning --rs 720p --rt 16:9 --dur 5"}]}' | jq .

Error Handling

Common error codes:
Status CodeDescription
401Authentication failed, please check API Token
403Insufficient balance or no access rights
429Request rate limit exceeded
500Internal server error

Next Steps