Retool transcription integration

For teams building an internal dashboard over their own content operation. The job: give non-engineers a button that submits a file and a table that shows job state.

Wiring it up

1 · Trigger

Any of these start the run:

• Button click
• scheduled query

2 · Submit from REST API resource + Query library

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

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

What it costs to run

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

Why run it here

Recipes that use Retool