Setup MiniMax

Table of contents

  1. Generating videos using hailuoai.video
    1. Step 1 • Navigate to hailuoai.video
    2. Step 2 • Open Developer Tools » Application
    3. Step 3 • Locate account value
    4. Step 4 • Locate url value
    5. Step 5 • Locate token value
  2. Generating music using hailuoai.com/music
    1. Step 1 • Navigate to hailuoai.com/music
    2. Step 2 • Open Developer Tools » Application
    3. Step 3 • Clear Application Storage
    4. Step 4 • Locate account value
    5. Step 5 • Locate url value
    6. Step 6 • Locate token value
  3. Configure MiniMax API account
  4. Verify account, url and token values

Approximately 5 minutes to complete setup steps.

MiniMax AI, a Chinese AI startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent. MiniMax unveiled its latest text-to-video AI model at Hailuo AI in early September 2024. This model is notable for generating ultra-realistic video clips with precise prompt following.

Generating videos using hailuoai.video

You need a hailuoai.video account to generate videos 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.

Expand hailuoai.video

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 • Open Developer Tools » Application

Select Developer Tools » Application 1.

Step 3 • Locate account value

Once Application 1 selected find:

  • Local storage » https://hailuoai.video 2
  • Locate ANONYMOUS_REAL_USER_ID key and copy ANONYMOUS_REAL_USER_ID value 3. This is your account number.

As an example below the account number is 301348409581838336.

Step 4 • Locate url value

Select Developer Tools » Network 1:

  • Type /register in the filter box 2 and hit Enter.
  • Make sure that All or Fetch/XHR 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.video/v1/api/user/device/register?device_platform=web&app_id=3001&version_code=22201&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 5 • 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.eyJleHAiOjE3MzIxNTk4MjksInVzZXIiOnsiaWQiOiIzMDEzNDg0MDk1ODE4MzgzMzYiLCJuYW1lIjoidXNlIGFwaSIsImF2YXRhciI6Imh0dHBzOi8vbGgzLmdvb2dsZXVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbS9hL0FDZzhvY0lLNEJaMmpfSlIxcTh3TkFKU2RlZzlwVHZlTDJTSVhFRjg4TkU4MV85VlowbFBRQT1zOTYtYyIsImRldmljZUlEIjoiIn19.1-zGnbUfENnVdjDGDBuaZ4Sf7rTelfqUKk5XNj7liE4

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

Generating music using hailuoai.com/music

You need a hailuoai.com/music account to generate music using MiniMax API. You can create as many accounts as you need. Our API uses automated load balancing and will select an account with available capacity.

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 • Open Developer Tools » Application

Select Developer Tools » Application 1.

Step 3 • Clear Application Storage

Once Application 1 selected find and clear (right-click to see popup menu Clear) following Storage 2 items:

  • All Local storage entries 3
  • All Session storage entries 4
  • All Cookies 5

Reload page 6 by pasting https://hailuoai.com/music again and hitting enter.

Step 4 • Locate account value

Once the page is fully reloaded verify that you are on the 1 https://hailuoai.com/music, if not paste it into the browser url again and let the page fully load:

  • Select Local storage » https://hailuoai.com 2
  • Locate ANONYMOUS_REAL_USER_ID key 3
  • Copy ANONYMOUS_REAL_USER_ID value 4. This is your account number.

As an example below the account number is 298732619965022215.

Step 5 • 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 6 • 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/account and configure the MiniMax API account to using account, url and token values retrieved above.

Verify account, url and token values