Transcripts API Methods (Legacy)

 

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Transcripts API Methods

Transcripts retrieved over the API are built from a core time-synchronized document. You can specify a number of parameters in your request to tailor the output to your needs.

 

Get Transcript for File

[GET] http://static.3playmedia.com/files/:file_id/transcript.:format?apikey=:api_key

 

Get Transcript for File by Video ID

[GET] http://static.3playmedia.com/files/:video_id/transcript.:format?apikey=:api_key&usevideoid=1

Available Formats: json, js, html, txt, doc

 

Display Alterations

Sometimes you may want to grab a simple text format that will look good on your web page. However, new lines will not render as breaks in HTML. In this case, you may want to use the pre option on download. For example, when downloading a .txt version of a transcript:

[GET] http://static.3playmedia.com/files/:id/transcript.txt?apikey=:api_key

 

Will render on a Web page as:

This is the first paragraph. This is the second paragraph.

[GET] http://static.3playmedia.com/files/:id/transcript.txt?apikey=:api_key&pre=1

 

Will render on a Web page as:

This is the first paragraph.

This is the second paragraph.

 

Downloading Transcripts

Note: To download a file as {filename}.{format}, you can append &download=1 to the api query. If you are automating this job, you should allow your query to read the file headers. For example with wget:

wget -S --content-disposition=on "http://static.3playmedia.com/files/:id/transcript.:format?apikey=:api_key&download=1"

 

Get Transcripts by threeplay_transcript_id

This is useful for getting transcripts for translations or captions imports.

[GET] api.3playmedia.com/files/:file_id/transcript.txt?apikey=:api_key&threeplay_transcript_id=:threeplay_transcript_id


API Specification for transcripts

 

Title List transcripts for a media file
URL api.3playmedia.com/files/:file_id/transcripts
Method GET
Paramaters

api_key: Your API group's key to authenticate access

usevideoid [OPTIONAL]: a value of 1 indicates that :file_id will be interpreted as a video id (e.g. as stored on a partner video platform) instead of a 3Play Media file id.

Success response

Code: 200

Content: [{id: 123, media_file_id: 100, language_id: 1, language_name: "English", type: "TranscribedTranscript"}, {id: 124, media_file_id: 100, language_id: 13, language_name: "Spanish", type: "TranslatedTranscript"}]

Error response

Code: 200

Content: {iserror: true, errors: {not_found: "The requested resource was not found"}}

 

Title Show details for a specified transcript
URL api.3playmedia.com/files/:file_id/transcripts/:transcript_id
Method GET
Parameters

api_key: Your API group's key to authenticate access

format_id: id of the 3Play Media output format desired (e.g. 16 for plain text transcript)

usevideoid [OPTIONAL]: a value of 1 indicates that :file_id will be interpreted as a video id (e.g. as stored on a partner video platform) instead of a 3Play Media file id.

Success response

Code: 200

Content: The transcript in the requested format

Error response

Code: 200

Content: {iserror: true, errors: {not_found: "The requested resource was not found"}} OR one of the following error messages:

- No output format was specified

- Format #{id} is not an available format

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    Damon Brantley

    In the docs above it says "Available Formats: json, js, html, txt, doc" I am needing the ppt_xml format. Is it not possible to download that format from the API?

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