Transcribe every new file in a Drive folder

Any team whose recordings already land somewhere shared. Files accumulate in a folder nobody opens, and the knowledge in them is invisible to search.

The flow

1. TriggerDrive push notification, or a folder-watch module.
2. SubmitConnect Drive with OAuth so we fetch the file directly — a share link is a preview page, not media.
3. PollStore the job_id and poll GET /api/v1/jobs/{id} from a scheduled run. Self-serve keys are Pro tier and collect by polling; signed callbacks are Enterprise.

# submit — returns immediately, does not block
curl -X POST https://whipscribe.com/api/v1/transcribe/url \
  -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: transcribe-every-file-in-a-drive-folder-$SOURCE_ID" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com/recording.mp4",
       "diarize":true,
       "word_timestamps":true}'

→ 202 {"job_id":"a1b2…","status":"queued"}

# then poll — a self-serve (Pro) key collects by polling
curl "https://whipscribe.com/api/v1/jobs/$JOB" -H "X-API-Key: $KEY"
→ {"status":"processing"} … {"status":"done"}

What it costs

At $0.48 an audio hour, a year of weekly hour-long recordings costs about $25 to have in full text. $8 per 1,000 minutes — about $0.48 an audio hour — and credits never expire.

Why this needs an API rather than a person

It is the simplest automation here and usually the first one worth building, because it turns a dead folder into a searchable archive.

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