---
canonical: https://amplience.com/developers/docs/apis/staging/
title: Virtual staging
description: How to use the Amplience Virtual Staging API to generate a timestamp or snapshot-specific virtual staging domain for previewing unpublished content.
audience: Developer
date_published: 2022-06-23
date_modified: 2025-01-29
---

# Virtual Staging API

You can generate a time stamp, or snapshot specific virtual staging domain via the Virtual Staging API.

Note that you should use the this API rather than modifying a virtual staging domain directly.

The Virtual Staging API accepts the following parameters:

- `timestamp` (epoch milliseconds) or `snapshotId` (string)
- Base Virtual Staging Environment (Your base VSE is setup by Amplience when your account is created and provided during the onboarding process)

### Generating a VSE using a timestamp

To generate a VSE using a timestamp make a GET request to the Virtual Staging service in the following format:

```html
https://virtual-staging.amplience.net/domain/<base-vse-domain
  >?timestamp=<epoch-millis></epoch-millis
></base-vse-domain>
```

Example:

```html
GET
https://virtual-staging.amplience.net/domain/1vkz2i2i1hlau19hndnr03duvb.staging.bigcontent.io?timestamp=1543598417
```

This will return a 200 response and the body will be the newly generated API domain name you should use to request content.

### Generating a VSE using a snapshotId

You can also use the Virtual Staging service to generate a Virtual Staging domain pinned to a content snapshot (taken from the payload of the snapshot published webhook event, for example).

To generate a VSE using a snapshotId, send a GET request to the Virtual Staging service in the following format:

```html
https://virtual-staging.amplience.net/domain/<base-vse-domain
  >?snapshotId=<string></string
></base-vse-domain>
```

Example:

```html
GET
https://virtual-staging.amplience.net/domain/1vkz2i2i1hlau19hndnr03duvb.staging.bigcontent.io?snapshotId=0cc865a52faff0001987e70
```

This will return a 200 response and the body will be the newly generated API domain name that you can use to request content.