Happy Scribe

Happy Scribe is a transcription, subtitling, and translation platform. Its REST API (base https://www.happyscribe.com/api/v1, Bearer-token auth) turns audio and video into text with automatic (machine) or professional (human) transcription, generates and translates subtitles/captions, and exports finished transcripts into 15+ formats (SRT, VTT, STL, DOCX, PDF, TXT, JSON, CSV, XLSX, plus editing-suite formats like Adobe Premiere XML, Final Cut Pro XML, EDL, and Avid DS). Work is organized under organizations and folders, files are ingested by URL or signed upload, and webhooks notify consumers when transcriptions complete.

Happy Scribe publishes 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Exports API, Glossaries and Style Guides API, Orders API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Audio Transcription, Transcription, Speech-to-Text, Subtitles, and Captions.

The Happy Scribe catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Happy Scribe’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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28.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 42/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

Audio Transcription Transcription Speech-to-Text Subtitles Captions Translation

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

AI Model Services

AE-110

Orders

POST /orders

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 28.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.1 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.7 / 15

Access Clarity 1.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.1 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 42/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
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Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks Ask about this →
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too Ask about this →

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Access Clarity scores 6.4 — up to +18.7 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 31.0 — up to +13.8 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 7.1 — up to +12.1 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 4

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Happy Scribe Exports API

Render finished transcripts into downloadable files.

Happy Scribe Glossaries and Style Guides API

Reusable glossaries and style guides attachable to orders.

Happy Scribe Orders API

Create and track transcription, subtitling, and translation orders.

Happy Scribe Organization Memberships API

Manage members and roles within an organization.

Happy Scribe Organizations API

Organizations (workspaces) the authenticated user belongs to.

Happy Scribe Transcriptions API

List, retrieve, update, and delete transcriptions.

Happy Scribe Uploads API

Signed upload URLs for local media files.

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Happy Scribe Exports API

OPEN COLLECTION

Happy Scribe Exports Glossaries and Style Guides API

OPEN COLLECTION

Happy Scribe Exports Orders API

OPEN COLLECTION

Happy Scribe Exports Organization Memberships API

OPEN COLLECTION

Happy Scribe Exports Organizations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Happy Scribe Exports Transcriptions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Happy Scribe Exports Uploads API

OPEN COLLECTION

Happy Scribe API

OPEN COLLECTION

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Happy Scribe MCP Server

Remote MCP server at www.happyscribe.com over HTTP.

MCP SERVER

Happy Scribe API pricing

Not yet checked against Happy Scribe's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-11 from www.happyscribe.com/pricing; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free free	—
Basic subscription	—
Pro subscription	—
Business subscription	—
Pay-as-you-go Credits usage	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

REST API Requests: not published requests
AI Credit Allowance: per plan minutes
Human Service Allowance: pay-per-use minutes

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Happy Scribe's documentation. All 4 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Happy Scribe Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Happy Scribe Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Happy Scribe Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Happy Scribe API Rules

64 rules · 60 error-severity 3 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Happy Scribe Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Happy Scribe Agentic Access

20 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: happyscribe
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/happyscribe/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Happy Scribe
kind: company
description: Happy Scribe is a transcription, subtitling, and translation platform. Its REST API (base https://www.happyscribe.com/api/v1,
  Bearer-token auth) turns audio and video into text with automatic (machine) or professional (human) transcription, generates
  and translates subtitles/captions, and exports finished transcripts into 15+ formats (SRT, VTT, STL, DOCX, PDF, TXT, JSON,
  CSV, XLSX, plus editing-suite formats like Adobe Premiere XML, Final Cut Pro XML, EDL, and Avid DS). Work is organized under
  organizations and folders, files are ingested by URL or signed upload, and webhooks notify consumers when transcriptions
  complete.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/happyscribe.png
tags:
- Audio Transcription
- Transcription
- Speech-to-Text
- Subtitles
- Captions
- Translation
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: happyscribe:happyscribe-exports-api
  name: Happy Scribe Exports API
  description: Render finished transcripts into downloadable files.
  humanURL: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  baseURL: https://www.happyscribe.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Export
  tags_raw:
  - Exports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/happyscribe-exports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/
- aid: happyscribe:happyscribe-glossaries-and-style-guides-api
  name: Happy Scribe Glossaries and Style Guides API
  description: Reusable glossaries and style guides attachable to orders.
  humanURL: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  baseURL: https://www.happyscribe.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Glossaries and Style Guides
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/happyscribe-glossaries-and-style-guides-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/
- aid: happyscribe:happyscribe-orders-api
  name: Happy Scribe Orders API
  description: Create and track transcription, subtitling, and translation orders.
  humanURL: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  baseURL: https://www.happyscribe.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/happyscribe-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/
- aid: happyscribe:happyscribe-organization-memberships-api
  name: Happy Scribe Organization Memberships API
  description: Manage members and roles within an organization.
  humanURL: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  baseURL: https://www.happyscribe.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Organization Memberships
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/happyscribe-organization-memberships-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/
- aid: happyscribe:happyscribe-organizations-api
  name: Happy Scribe Organizations API
  description: Organizations (workspaces) the authenticated user belongs to.
  humanURL: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  baseURL: https://www.happyscribe.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Organization
  tags_raw:
  - Organizations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/happyscribe-organizations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/
- aid: happyscribe:happyscribe-transcriptions-api
  name: Happy Scribe Transcriptions API
  description: List, retrieve, update, and delete transcriptions.
  humanURL: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  baseURL: https://www.happyscribe.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Transcriptions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/happyscribe-transcriptions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/
- aid: happyscribe:happyscribe-uploads-api
  name: Happy Scribe Uploads API
  description: Signed upload URLs for local media files.
  humanURL: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  baseURL: https://www.happyscribe.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Uploads
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/happyscribe-uploads-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/sections/product/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.happyscribe.com/
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/happyscribe-capability-edges.yml
  name: Happy Scribe Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/happyscribe-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/happyscribe-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/happyscribe
- type: Website
  url: https://www.happyscribe.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://dev.happyscribe.com
- type: Plans
  url: plans/happyscribe-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/happyscribe-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/happyscribe-finops.yml
- url: https://www.happyscribe.com/blog
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Happy Scribe API — frequently asked questions

Does Happy Scribe have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from Happy Scribe, including Happy Scribe Exports API, Happy Scribe Glossaries and Style Guides API and Happy Scribe Orders API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Happy Scribe API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for Happy Scribe, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Happy Scribe API?

Happy Scribe documents its authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Happy Scribe Authentication.

How much does the Happy Scribe API cost?

APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for Happy Scribe, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Happy Scribe have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Happy Scribe: Remote MCP server at www.happyscribe.com over HTTP.

Is the Happy Scribe API ready for AI agents?

Happy Scribe has a Kin Score of 28.2 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 42.4 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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