Happy Scribe Uploads API

Signed upload URLs for local media files.

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happyscribe-uploads-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Happy Scribe Exports Uploads 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: Uploads
  description: Signed upload URLs for local media files.
paths:
  /uploads/new:
    get:
      operationId: newUpload
      tags:
      - Uploads
      summary: Request a signed upload URL
      description: Returns a signed URL to which a local media file can be PUT. The returned temporary URL is then passed as tmp_url / url when creating a transcription or order.
      parameters:
      - name: filename
        in: query
        required: true
        description: The name of the file to be uploaded.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A signed upload URL.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Upload'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid Bearer token.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  schemas:
    Upload:
      type: object
      properties:
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: Signed URL to PUT the file to.
        tmp_url:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: Temporary URL to pass when creating a transcription or order.
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'API token from your Happy Scribe account settings, passed as `Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN`.'