Important: OpenAI has announced that the Sora 2 API and consumer applications will be discontinued on September 24, 2026 . The iOS and Android apps were already shut down on April 26, 2026. If you're building production systems that depend on video generation, factor this timeline into your architecture decisions — you'll need to migrate to an alternative or wait for OpenAI's next video generation offering well before Q4 2026. TL;DR: Sora 2 is OpenAI's production video generation API, accessible through POST /v1/videos at api.openai.com . Video generation is asynchronous — you submit a job, poll for status, and download the result once complete. This guide covers authentication, working code examples in curl and Python, and what to actually expect from the model in production. If you've been putting off video generation because the API landscape looked fragmented, Sora 2's straightforward REST interface makes it one of the easier video models to integrate — just be aware of the September 2026 sunset date.…