Happy Scribe Orders API

Create and track transcription, subtitling, and translation orders.

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happyscribe-orders-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Happy Scribe Exports Orders API
  description: The Happy Scribe API turns audio and video into text and subtitles programmatically. Submit work through the Orders API (automatic/machine or professional/human service), manage the resulting transcriptions, export finished transcripts into 15+ formats (SRT, VTT, STL, DOCX, PDF, TXT, JSON, CSV, XLSX, and editing-suite formats), and administer organizations and their members. Files are ingested by public URL or via a signed upload. All requests are REST over HTTPS and authenticated with a Bearer API token from your Happy Scribe account settings. Base URL https://www.happyscribe.com/api/v1. Endpoint paths and fields are grounded in the public developer documentation (dev.happyscribe.com); request/response schemas below are honestly modeled from that documentation and may not enumerate every field.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Happy Scribe
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com
servers:
- url: https://www.happyscribe.com/api/v1
  description: Happy Scribe API v1
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Orders
  description: Create and track transcription, subtitling, and translation orders.
paths:
  /orders:
    post:
      operationId: createOrder
      tags:
      - Orders
      summary: Create a transcription or subtitling order
      description: Creates an order to transcribe or subtitle a media file from a URL, using automatic (machine) or professional (human) service. This is the preferred way to submit new work.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrderInput'
      responses:
        '201':
          description: The created order.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Order'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError'
  /orders/translation:
    post:
      operationId: createTranslationOrder
      tags:
      - Orders
      summary: Create a translation order
      description: Creates an order to translate an existing transcription into a target language.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - transcription_id
              - target_language
              properties:
                transcription_id:
                  type: string
                target_language:
                  type: string
                  description: BCP-47 target language code.
                service:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                  - auto
                  - pro
      responses:
        '201':
          description: The created translation order.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Order'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError'
  /orders/{id}:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Id'
    get:
      operationId: getOrder
      tags:
      - Orders
      summary: Retrieve an order
      description: Retrieves an order by ID, including its state.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The requested order.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Order'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /orders/{id}/confirm:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Id'
    post:
      operationId: confirmOrder
      tags:
      - Orders
      summary: Confirm an incomplete order
      description: Confirms an order that was created in an incomplete state, submitting it for processing.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The confirmed order.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Order'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError'
components:
  schemas:
    OrderInput:
      type: object
      required:
      - url
      - language
      - organization_id
      properties:
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: Public or signed URL of the media file.
        language:
          type: string
          description: BCP-47 language code.
        organization_id:
          type: string
        service:
          type: string
          enum:
          - auto
          - pro
        is_subtitle:
          type: boolean
          default: false
        confirm:
          type: boolean
          description: When true, submit immediately instead of leaving the order incomplete.
        glossary_ids:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        style_guide_id:
          type: string
    Order:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        state:
          type: string
          enum:
          - incomplete
          - waiting_for_payment
          - submitted
          - locked
          - fulfilled
          - failed
          - canceled
          - expired
        service:
          type: string
        language:
          type: string
        transcription_ids:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        createdAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid Bearer token.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    NotFound:
      description: The requested resource was not found.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    ValidationError:
      description: The request payload failed validation.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  parameters:
    Id:
      name: id
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The unique identifier of the resource.
      schema:
        type: string
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'API token from your Happy Scribe account settings, passed as `Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN`.'