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Create Transcription

Create a new transcription from a instagram, tiktok, youtube video URL

POSThttps://api.gettranscribe.ai/transcriptions

Headers

Content-Type: application/json

x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY

Body Parameters

urlrequired

string

The video URL to transcribe (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc.)

folder_idoptional

number

ID of the folder to organize the transcription

languageoptional

string

ISO-639-1 language code (e.g., "en", "es", "fr") to improve transcription accuracy

promptoptional

string

Context text to guide transcription (names, technical terms, domain-specific vocabulary)

Example Request

curl -X POST https://api.gettranscribe.ai/transcriptions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DM1P8q1MzaG/",
    "folder_id": 123,
    "language": "en",
    "prompt": "This video contains entrepreneurship and motivational content"
  }'

Example Response

{
  "id": 4032,
  "user_id": 2,
  "transcription": "A lot of people here are crying that they don't have the money, the fame, the happiness that they wanted at 34, but they didn't do shit.\nIt's okay to be ambitious.\nIt's okay to be accountable, right?\nIt's okay to have momentary micro moments of self-doubt.\nIt is not allowed to have consistent dwelling and consistent beating yourself up for dumb shit.\nSo what I need from you is to understand who gives a fuck.\nStart being happy about what you've accomplished instead of crying about what you haven't accomplished.",
  "platform": "instagram",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/DM1P8q1MzaG/",
  "thumbnail_url": "https://d.rapidcdn.app/thumb?token=...",
  "download_video_url": "https://d.rapidcdn.app/v2?token=...",
  "download_audio_url": "https://gettranscribe.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/users/2/20250807-124315_6bd26fd0-f3de-4683-8982-5572b6e0079c/compressed_audio.mp3"
  "duration": "0:30",
  "duration_seconds": 30.159864,
  "word_count": 91,
  "char_count": 515,
  "folder_id": null,
  "transcription_analysis": null,
  "original_transcription": "A lot of people here are crying that they don't have the money, the fame, the happiness that they wanted at 34, but they didn't do shit. It's okay to be ambitious. It's okay to be accountable, right? It's okay to have momentary micro moments of self-doubt. It is not allowed to have consistent dwelling and consistent beating yourself up for dumb shit. So what I need from you is to understand who gives a fuck. Start being happy about what you've accomplished instead of crying about what you haven't accomplished.",
  "transcription_segments": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "end": 1.4199999570846558,
      "seek": 0,
      "text": " A lot of people here are crying",
      "start": 0,
      "tokens": [50364, 316, 688, 295, 561, 510, 366, 8554, 50442],
      "avg_logprob": -0.19140006601810455,
      "temperature": 0,
      "no_speech_prob": 0.0340588241815567,
      "compression_ratio": 1.716417908668518
    }
    // ... more segments
  ],
  "transcription_words": [
    {
      "end": 0.20000000298023224,
      "word": "A",
      "start": 0
    },
    {
      "end": 0.30000001192092896,
      "word": "lot",
      "start": 0.20000000298023224
    }
    // ... more words with timestamps
  ],
  "analysis_language": null,
  "language": "en",
  "prompt": "This video contains entrepreneurship and motivational content",
  "created_at": "2025-08-07T17:43:15.822Z",
  "updated_at": "2025-08-07T17:43:15.822Z",
  "deleted_at": null,}

Note: The response includes detailed transcription data with word-level timestamps, audio segments, download URLs, and metadata. The transcription_segments andtranscription_words arrays have been truncated for brevity.