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Make.com transcription integration

For operators wiring Whipscribe into a scenario alongside Drive, Airtable and an LLM module. The job: submit a new recording to Whipscribe and pull the transcript back into the rest of the scenario.

The one thing that breaks this

Make aborts an HTTP module at 40 seconds. An hour of audio takes about two minutes, so a scenario that submits and then waits on the same module always fails. Submit, write the job_id to a data store, and let a second scheduled scenario poll the ids that are still open.

ModuleHTTP → Make a request
ShapePoll
Step timeout40s
Recipes6

Wiring it up

1 · Trigger

Any of these start the run:

2 · Submit from HTTP → Make a request

# submit — returns immediately, does not block
curl -X POST https://whipscribe.com/api/v1/transcribe/url \
  -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: make-$FILE_ID" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com/recording.mp4",
       "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"}
Retry safety. Make retries a failed module. Without an Idempotency-Key that retry bills a second transcription of the same file.

3 · Collect

Submit, store the job id, and poll only the rows still queued.

# one job, every format — never re-submit per format
curl "https://whipscribe.com/api/v1/jobs/$JOB/result?format=txt" -H "X-API-Key: $KEY"
curl "https://whipscribe.com/api/v1/jobs/$JOB/result?format=srt" -H "X-API-Key: $KEY"
curl "https://whipscribe.com/api/v1/jobs/$JOB/result?format=vtt" -H "X-API-Key: $KEY"

What your key can actually do

TierReq/minMinutes/dayLongest fileResultsHow you get it
Pro60Unlimited10 hoursPollWhat POST /v1/keys mints, once your account has API access
Enterprise120Unlimited10 hoursSigned webhooksTalk to us
Collecting results. Self-serve keys are Pro tier, and Pro collects results by polling — webhook_url on a Pro key returns 403 TIER_FORBIDDEN. Signed callbacks are an Enterprise feature.

What it costs to run

Rate$0.0048 / min
Per audio hour$0.29
10 hours of audio$2.88
CreditsNever expire

$24 per 5,000 minutes — about $0.29 an audio hour — and credits never expire.

Why run it here

No subscription to size wrongCompeting transcription tools sell $25–$65 monthly plans with a minute cap that resets whether you used it or not. Credits here are bought once and do not expire, so a quiet month costs nothing and a backlog run does not need an upgrade.
Your audio is not sent to a third-party modelTranscription runs on our own servers in our own private cloud. Nothing is forwarded to OpenAI or any other vendor's API, which is usually the blocking question when the recordings are customer calls or unreleased material.
One job, every formattxt, json, srt, vtt and docx all come from the same job id. Re-submitting a file per format is the most common way teams pay several times for one transcription.
Built to be retriedIdempotency-Key means an automation platform's automatic retry returns the original job instead of billing a second one. Every no-code platform retries; most transcription APIs charge you for it.

Recipes that use Make.com

Turn long screen recordings into course modulesA three-hour screen recording is the most valuable asset a course business owns and the least usable. Nob…3-hour recording ≈ $2.16Cut short-form clips out of a webinar automaticallyThe clips worth posting are buried somewhere in a 60-minute recording and finding them by scrubbing costs…60-min webinar ≈ $0.72Transcribe every new file in a Drive folderFiles accumulate in a folder nobody opens, and the knowledge in them is invisible to search.…≈ $0.29 per audio hour on the $24 packGenerate show notes and chapters from each episodeShow notes and chapter markers are the last job before publishing and the one most often skipped.…weekly show ≈ $1.56 a monthTranscribe a whole back catalogue in one runThe archive is the asset, but one-at-a-time upload means it never gets done.…1,000 hours ≈ $480, onceWrite SOPs from how-we-do-it recordingsProcess knowledge lives in someone's screen recording and leaves when they do.…40 recordings ≈ $6.40

Use cases with Make.com

Every season in Drive, transcribed and back in DriveEvery season, transcripts and SRTPodcast archive in DriveA Drive folder of videos in, a Drive folder of SRTs outA folder of videos, an SRT for eachVideo to SRT from DriveInterview rushes in Drive, a paper edit by tomorrowClips into a paper editDocumentary footageRun the Drive folder again. Only the new recordings get transcribedRe-import a folder, skip what is doneRecurring Drive folders
Try the quality free, then wire it up

In the web app the first 20 minutes are free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest — that is how to check accuracy on your own audio before writing any code. The API has no recurring free tier: without a key you can run 3 sample transcriptions a day, each returning a preview, and keys come with the 5,000-minute pack ($24) or Workspace ($19/month). $24 per 5,000 minutes — about $0.29 an audio hour — and credits never expire.

Transcribe a file free →Create an API keyAPI referenceIntegrationsAutomations
Platform reference: Make.com docs ↗

Prefer a web app?

If you would rather upload a file or paste a link: see an online transcription service with nothing to install and transcription services from $6.