Captions

We provide the capability to add captions to your uploaded video so you don't have to embed captions

How to upload captions?

The captions are uploaded per language. Meaning, you can upload different captions for each language. The values that you will have to include with your POST request to the captions endpoint are:

FieldType
videoIdStringThe unique identifier for the video you want to add a caption to.
languageStringA valid BCP 47 language representation.
fileFileThe video text track in VTT format only.

Supported caption file formats

Currently, we support only VTT file format.

WebVTT file formatting

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Incorrect VTT file formatting

We will not throw an error when the VTT file is incorrectly formatted. The response from the API will be 200, however, the captions will not be displayed.

The VTT file has an extension .vtt and the format is as in the example below:

WEBVTT

00:01.000 --> 00:04.000
- Never drink liquid nitrogen.

00:05.000 --> 00:09.000
- It will perforate your stomach.
- You could die.

For more information on VTT formatting: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebVTT_API

You can check the formatting of the VTT with a free online tool here: https://w3c.github.io/webvtt.js/parser.html

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