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.

1{2  "ok": false,3  "error": {4    "code": "transcript_unavailable",5    "message": "No captions exist and AI transcription is not possible for this media.",6    "retryable": false7  },8  "credits_charged": 0,9  "request_id": "req_0123456789abcdef01234567"10}

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.