emerging · 0.5 capability action

Captions

Score 22.8 / 100 12 providers +9 via APIs 13 APIs Search apis.io →
Workflows using this tag
YouTube Update Video Metadata · Youtube YouTube Search to Video Comment Threads · Youtube YouTube Upload Video and Add to Playlist · Youtube YouTube Trending Videos to Playlist · Youtube YouTube Post and Moderate a Comment Thread · Youtube YouTube Search Channel and Subscribe · Youtube YouTube Search Playlist and List Items · Youtube YouTube My Channel Uploads · Youtube
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Content Origination & Production Management 2

Providers using this tag (12)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
TranscriptFetchTranscriptsSpeech-to-TextYouTube2 APIs67.6
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
CaptionsCompanyVideoArtificial IntelligenceVideo Editing3 APIs63.9
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
DescriptArtificial IntelligenceAudio EditingMedia1 API54.2MediaCaption APIYouTubeTranscriptionSubtitles1 API51.7MirageCompanyArtificial IntelligenceVideoVideo Generation1 API49.8ZencoderCompanyVideoVideo EncodingTranscoding2 APIs47.8Salad Transcription APIAudio TranscriptionDiarizationGPU1 API39.7
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
VidGridVideoScreen RecordingVideo Hosting1 API38.7SonixAudio TranscriptionTranscriptionSpeech-to-TextSubtitles1 API37.5TrintAudio TranscriptionTranscriptionSpeech-to-TextMedia1 API37.3Happy ScribeAudio TranscriptionTranscriptionSpeech-to-TextSubtitles1 API35.2
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
RankFabrikDataWeb ScrapingLocal BusinessPlaces4 APIs20.5

APIs with this tag (13)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Wistia Captions APIThe Captions API from Wistia — 3 operation(s) for captions.69.8
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Youtube Captions APIOperations related to YouTube video caption tracks59.8
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Webex Meeting Transcripts APIRetrieve and manage meeting transcripts including download endpoints for VTT and TXT transcript formats. Su...45.1Cloudflare Stream Captions APIPer-language captions and subtitles for a video.42.6
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Podcastle TranscriptionTranscription and speech-to-text are Podcastle platform features (multi-language transcription with speaker...35.4NASA Captions APIThe Captions API from NASA — 1 operation(s) for captions.34.0Vonage Video API Captions APIStart and stop real-time live captions.33.7Agora Real-Time Speech-to-Text APIThe Agora Real-Time Speech-to-Text API provides streaming transcription and real-time translation across mu...30.6
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
CaptionsTimestamped/segmented video transcript retrieval, up to 50 videos per call. Billed per transcript returned.20.5JobsJob posting collection that segments by publish window/area to exceed the public 1,000-result cap. Billed p...20.5PlacesLocal business data collection via geo point + radius sweep with deduplication on place ID; optional email ...20.5VerifyEmail verification via syntax, disposable-domain, MX and SMTP dialogue checks (no message sent), up to 100 ...20.5Instance Captions APIThe Captions API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for captions.17.1

Companies reaching this through an API (9)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Captions” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Agora Cisco Webex Meetings Cloudflare Stream Instance NASA Podcastle Vonage Video API Wistia Youtube

Score breakdown

Frequency
40.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
55.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
9.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Speech-to-Text 7 co-occurrences Transcription 9 co-occurrences Video 12 co-occurrences Media 13 co-occurrences Audio 5 co-occurrences Job 5 co-occurrences Webhook 5 co-occurrences Artificial Intelligence 9 co-occurrences

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