Setup MiniMax

September 25, 2024 (March 17, 2025)

Table of contents

  1. Generating videos and images using hailuoai.video
    1. Step 1 • Navigate to hailuoai.video
    2. Step 2 • Locate url
    3. Step 3 • Locate token value
  2. LLM models DeepSeek R1 and MiniMax-Text-01 available via chat.minimax.io
  3. Generating text-to-speech using www.minimax.io/audio
  4. Generating music using hailuoai.com/music
  5. Configure MiniMax API account
  6. Verify url and token values

Approximately 5 minutes to complete setup steps.

Generating videos and images using hailuoai.video

You need a hailuoai.video account to generate videos and images using MiniMax API. Sign-in with your Google account at hailuoai.video. You can create as many accounts as you need. Our API uses automated load balancing and will select an account with available capacity.

Step 1 • Navigate to hailuoai.video

Open Chromium-compatible browser (e.g. Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Opera) and navigate to https://hailuoai.video.

Once the page is fully loaded, ensure that you’re logged in with your Google account 1.

Open Developer Tools by right-clicking on the page and selecting “Inspect Element” 2.

Finally refresh page 3.

Step 2 • Locate url

Select Developer Tools » Network 1:

  • On the left side many click on Assets submenu 2.
  • Type /cursor in the filter box 3 and hit Enter.
  • Make sure that All or Fetch/XHR is selected 4.
  • You should see a http call(s) entry as shown below 5, click on that entry.
  • Select “Headers” tab 6.
  • Locate General » Request URL 7 as shown below and copy its value. This is your url.

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As an example below the url is

https://hailuoai.video/v3/api/multimodal/video/my/cursor?type=next&currentID=0&limit=30&scene=mine&filterType=2&device_platform=web&app_id=3001&version_code=22202&biz_id=0&lang=en&uuid=8a2d8b5d-ac0d-4bb5-8028-3177fa64f861&device_id=301350748241866752&os_name=Windows&browser_name=opera&device_memory=8&cpu_core_num=12&browser_language=en-US&browser_platform=Win32&screen_width=1920&screen_height=1080&unix=1728704107000

Step 3 • Locate token value

Locate Request Headers » Token 7 as shown below and copy it’s value. This is your token.

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As an example below the token is

eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJleHAiOjE3MzIxNTk4MjksInVzZXIiOnsiaWQiOiIzMDEzNDg0MDk1ODE4MzgzMzYiLCJuYW1lIjoidXNlIGFwaSIsImF2YXRhciI6Imh0dHBzOi8vbGgzLmdvb2dsZXVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbS9hL0FDZzhvY0lLNEJaMmpfSlIxcTh3TkFKU2RlZzlwVHZlTDJTSVhFRjg4TkU4MV85VlowbFBRQT1zOTYtYyIsImRldmljZUlEIjoiIn19.1-zGnbUfENnVdjDGDBuaZ4Sf7rTelfqUKk5XNj7liE4

If you are curious, you can use jwt.io to decode the token and see its content.

LLM models DeepSeek R1 and MiniMax-Text-01 available via chat.minimax.io

The chat.minimax.io account shares the same Google account as https://hailuoai.video. Once you have set up your hailuoai.video account ↑, you’ll be able to use all the features of chat.minimax.io.

Generating text-to-speech using www.minimax.io/audio

The www.minimax.io/audio account shares the same Google account as https://hailuoai.video. Once you have set up your hailuoai.video account ↑, you’ll be able to use all the features of www.minimax.io/audio.

Generating music using hailuoai.com/music

You need a hailuoai.com/music account to generate music using MiniMax API.

Expand hailuoai.com/music

Step 1 • Navigate to hailuoai.com/music

Open Chromium-compatible browser (e.g. Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Opera) and navigate to https://hailuoai.com/music.

Once the page is fully loaded, open Developer Tools by right-clicking on the page and selecting “Inspect Element” 1.

Step 2 • Locate url value

Select Developer Tools » Network 1:

  • Type /register in the filter box 2 and hit Enter.
  • Make sure that All is selected 3.
  • You should see a single http call entry as shown below 4, click on that entry.
  • Select “Headers” tab 5.
  • Locate General » Request URL 6 as shown below and copy it’s value. This is your url.

As an example below the url is

https://hailuoai.com/v1/api/user/device/register?device_platform=web&app_id=3001&version_code=22201&uuid=5c8e7861-58db-4235-a526-80afbc279c88&device_id=298732618450878466&os_name=Windows&browser_name=opera&device_memory=8&cpu_core_num=12&browser_language=en-US&browser_platform=Win32&screen_width=1920&screen_height=1080&unix=1728079775000

Step 3 • Locate token value

Locate Request Headers » Token 1 as shown below and copy it’s value. This is your token.

As an example below the token is

eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJleHAiOjE3MzE1MzU1NzYsInVzZXIiOnsiaWQiOiIyOTg3MzI2MTk5NjUwMjIyMTUiLCJuYW1lIjoi5bCP6J665bi9MjIxNSIsImF2YXRhciI6Imh0dHBzOi8vY2RuLnlpbmdzaGktYWkuY29tL3Byb2QvdXNlcl9hdmF0YXIvMTcwNjI2NzM2NDE2NDQwNDA3Ny0xNzMxOTQ1NzA2Njg5NjU4OTZvdmVyc2l6ZS5wbmciLCJkZXZpY2VJRCI6IjI5ODczMjYxODQ1MDg3ODQ2NiIsImlzQW5vbnltb3VzIjp0cnVlfX0.lOzbwFnC4Xv2YReBRgNozjsN66YXajoxTV_VEG-t3Gk

If you are curious, you can use jwt.io to decode the token and see its content.

Configure MiniMax API account

Please use the Verify feature below to ensure all the retrieved values above are correct.

Proceed to POST /accounts and configure the MiniMax API account to using url and token values retrieved above.

Verify url and token values