# Available Immediately Inputs

What is it

The available immediately inputs are push inputs which are created along with a workflow creation. Whereas a normal input is created only when a channel is started. This allows to have the push URLs available before the Live Channel has been started. To set an available immediately input you need to set the boolean variable availableImmediately to true when creating a workflow:

  "settings": {
    "inputs": [
      {
        "createInput": {
          "type": "VIRTUAL_INPUT",
          "protocol": "RTMP_PUSH",
          "availableImmediately": true
        }
      }
    ]

Once the availableImmediately has been set to and the workflow is created we will be able to see the push URLs for the channel without the need to have the channel being started. This is helpful when encoders are being set up and a push URL needs to be configured but we do not want to start the channel yet.

View the push URLs