transcript_unavailable

Response

Every failure uses this envelope. credits_charged is 0. The message below is the default text for this code. Live messages can change, so branch on error.code.

{
  "ok": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "transcript_unavailable",
    "message": "No captions exist and AI transcription is not possible for this media.",
    "retryable": false
  },
  "credits_charged": 0,
  "request_id": "req_0123456789abcdef01234567"
}

error.retryable is false. The same request fails the same way.

When it happens

• YouTube transcripts return this when the video has no captions. AI transcription of YouTube audio is not available yet.
• TikTok transcripts use TikTok's captions when they exist, and AI transcription of the audio when they do not.
• Instagram reel transcripts return this for a photo or a carousel with no video.

What to do

• Do not retry the same media. The attempt is free.

The response header x-request-id matches request_id. The full list is on errors.