Connect Happy Scribe to your AI agent
Happy Scribe offers automatic and professional transcription services, converting audio and video files into text with high accuracy.
We set up the connection using your own Happy Scribe account, with keys you control, and keep it running. Your agent picks it up and starts doing the work.
Actions
What your agent can do in Happy Scribe
Each one is a real action the agent can take on its own, the same things a person clicking around Happy Scribe could do. Read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against your policy.
- Create Subtitle Create subtitles for a video file using Happy Scribe's automatic transcription service. Submits a video URL to be processed for subtitle generation. The video must be publicly accessible during ingestion. Returns a subt…
- Create Translation Task Creates an AI-powered translation task to translate an existing transcription into another language. Use this after a transcription is complete (state='automatic_done') to translate it. The task runs asynchronously - us…
- Delete Transcription Tool to delete a transcription job. Use when you have a transcription ID and want to remove it, optionally permanently. Use after confirming the transcription ID.
- Delete Webhook Deletes a webhook by its ID. This action is idempotent: if the webhook does not exist or was already deleted, it returns success. Use Get Webhooks to retrieve available webhook IDs.
- Get Account Details Tool to retrieve details about your account, including subscription status and usage statistics. Use after authenticating your API key to monitor plan and usage.
- Get Supported Languages Retrieve the list of supported language codes for Happy Scribe transcription services. Returns BCP-47 language codes and indicates which languages have human transcription service available. This is a static reference b…
- Get API Rate Limit Get Happy Scribe API rate limit information. Returns the documented rate limit for the Happy Scribe API: - Default limit: 200 requests per hour - Applies only to the transcription creation endpoint - When rate limited,…
- Get Signed Upload URL Tool to get a signed URL for uploading a file to Happy Scribe's S3 storage. Use before creating a transcription or order to obtain a secure upload URL for your media file.
- Confirm Order Tool to confirm a pending order. Use after creating an order with confirm=false when you're ready to submit it for processing.
- Create Translation Order Tool to create a translation order from an existing transcription. Use when you have a completed transcription and want translations into one or more languages. By default, the order remains incomplete unless confirm=tr…
- Export Transcription Creates an export job to download transcription content in various formats. Use this action after a transcription job completes (state='automatic_done'). First obtain transcription IDs using the List Transcriptions acti…
- Get API Version Tool to retrieve current API version and check for updates. If Happy Scribe does not expose a dedicated /version endpoint, this tool attempts to infer the version from HTTP response headers or from the base_url path (e.…
- Get Error Codes Returns a list of HTTP error codes used by the Happy Scribe API along with their descriptions. Use this tool to understand what different error responses mean when calling other Happy Scribe API endpoints. This returns…
- Get Supported Formats Tool to retrieve supported file formats. Use when you need to know available input and output formats before creating a transcription or subtitle. If a dedicated '/formats' endpoint is unavailable, this action probes kn…
- Get Transcription Details Tool to retrieve details and status of a specific transcription job. Use after creating or listing transcription jobs to inspect a particular job's metadata.
- Get Webhooks Tool to retrieve webhooks configured for your account. Note: Happy Scribe's public API does not have a dedicated webhooks listing endpoint. Webhooks are specified via webhook_url when creating orders. This action attemp…
- Retrieve Export Tool to retrieve information about a specific export. Use when you need to check export status and get download link.
- Retrieve Translation Task Retrieves the status and details of a translation task by its ID. Use this after creating a translation task with HAPPY_SCRIBE_CREATE_TRANSLATION_TASK to check progress (state: initial, working, failed, done) and obtain…
- List Transcriptions Retrieves a paginated list of transcription jobs for a Happy Scribe organization. Returns transcription metadata including ID, name, processing state, language, and duration. Supports filtering by folder and tags, with…
- Retrieve Order Retrieve details of a Happy Scribe order by its ID. Returns order state, pricing, operations, and inputs. Use this to check order status, verify pricing details, or get information about translation/transcription operat…
Setup
How we connect it
- 1
Connect your account
You create a key in Happy Scribe, a key you create and control, and paste it in once. It lives in a secrets store on your server, not with us.
- 2
Set the guardrails
Read-only by default. You choose which write actions the agent may take, and anything outside that policy gets confirmed with you first.
- 3
We keep it running
Health checks on every connection, updates handled for you, and we watch the first week of activity to make sure the work lands.
FAQ
Happy Scribe questions, answered.
With a key you create and control. You paste it in once, it is stored in a secrets store on your server, permissions are scoped to the minimum the agent needs, and you can revoke it at any time.
The actions Happy Scribe's API allows, the same things a person clicking around the app could do. Connections start read-only by default; write actions are confirmed against the policy you set before the agent takes them.
Connections are priced per tool on top of the base plan. Some are included, some are premium. See pricing for how connection charges work.
Standard tools are ready inside 7 business days of the setup call. We test the connection end to end, walk you through how the agent uses it, and watch the first week of activity.
Ready to put Happy Scribe to work?
Tell us what your team runs on. We set up the connection, secure it, and your agent takes it from there.
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