How do I transcribe from an Apify Actor or an Apify-based agent?

Steps

1. Open the Actor. On the Apify Store:

   https://apify.com/whipscribe/whipscribe-transcriber

2. Try it without a key. Leave the key empty and run it with the prefilled sample link. You get a free preview of that sample, one link per run.
3. Add your WhipScribe key. For your own links and full output, create a key (whipscribe.com/agents/api-key) and paste it into the apiKey input. Apify stores it encrypted.
4. Set the input. urls is the only required field.

   {
     "urls": ["https://www.archive.org/download/testmp3testfile/mpthreetest.mp3"],
     "apiKey": "paste-the-key",
     "language": "auto",
     "outputFormats": ["txt", "json", "srt"],
     "waitForCompletion": true,
     "timeoutMinutes": 60,
     "maxConcurrency": 3
   }

5. Run it from code or an agent. Any Apify client or the REST API starts a run; the dataset holds the transcripts.

   curl -s -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/whipscribe~whipscribe-transcriber/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"urls": ["https://www.archive.org/download/testmp3testfile/mpthreetest.mp3"], "apiKey": "'$WHIPSCRIBE_API_KEY'"}'

Inputs

• urls (required): public links to transcribe.
• apiKey: your WhipScribe key. Empty means preview of the sample only.
• language: auto by default; any ISO 639-1 code.
• outputFormats: txt is always included; add json (timestamped segments), srt, vtt.
• waitForCompletion: on waits for every transcript; off only submits and saves the job ids.
• timeoutMinutes: how long to wait before giving up on unfinished jobs (they keep running at WhipScribe).
• maxConcurrency: links submitted and tracked at once.

Who pays for what

Transcription comes out of the WhipScribe account behind the key: $4 = 500 min · $8 = 1,000 min · $12 = 2,000 min · $24 = 5,000 min, credits never expire. The key itself needs the $24 pack or Workspace. Apify bills its own platform usage for the run separately. To add WhipScribe credit: whipscribe.com/agents/buy-credits.

What we checked

On 5 October 2026 the Actor was public on the Apify Store under that name and its inputs were the ones listed here. The WhipScribe calls it makes are the ones on whipscribe.com/agents/api-key, which we ran end to end the same day.