Happy Scribe Orders API
Create and track transcription, subtitling, and translation orders.
Create and track transcription, subtitling, and translation orders.
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openapi: 3.2.0
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:
responses:
ValidationError:
description: The request payload failed validation.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
NotFound:
description: The requested resource was not found.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
Unauthorized:
description: Missing or invalid Bearer token.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
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
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`.'