Cut short-form clips out of a webinar automatically

Marketing teams running webinars they never repurpose. The clips worth posting are buried somewhere in a 60-minute recording and finding them by scrubbing costs more than the clips are worth.

The flow

1. TriggerThe webinar recording finishes and lands in storage.
2. SubmitSubmit the URL with word_timestamps enabled — clip boundaries need word-level precision, not sentence-level.
3. RankScore the transcript for self-contained statements: a claim, a number, a story opening. Each one carries its own timestamps.
4. CutFeed the in/out pairs to your editor or ffmpeg.
5. PostThe shortlist lands in Slack so a human picks rather than searches.

# submit — returns immediately, does not block
curl -X POST https://whipscribe.com/api/v1/transcribe/url \
  -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: webinar-to-short-form-clips-$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

A 60-minute webinar is about $0.48 of transcription. The clips it yields are the cheapest content a marketing team produces. $8 per 1,000 minutes — about $0.48 an audio hour — and credits never expire.

Why this needs an API rather than a person

The value is in doing it to every webinar, including the ones nobody would have bothered with.

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