---
title: "Create Transcript Highlight"
method: POST
path: "/transcripts/{transcript_id}/highlights"
tags: ["transcripts"]
---

# Create Transcript Highlight

`POST /transcripts/{transcript_id}/highlights`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.trytrata.com`
- URL: `https://api.trytrata.com/transcripts/{transcript_id}/highlights`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

## Path parameters

- `transcript_id` string, required

## Request body

- TranscriptHighlightCreateRequest
  - `start_message_index` integer, required
  - `start_index` integer, required
  - `end_message_index` integer, required
  - `end_index` integer, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- TranscriptHighlightResponse
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required
  - `transcript_highlight_id` string, uuid, required
  - `transcript_id` string, required
  - `user_id` string, required
  - `start_message_index` integer, required
  - `start_index` integer, required
  - `end_message_index` integer, required
  - `end_index` integer, required
  - `highlighted_text` string, nullable

## Other responses

- `404`: Not found
- `422`: Validation Error

## Changes

- **2026-10-26** `d40af0b081ba`: 3 info
  - the response property `created_at` became required for the status `200`
  - the response property `transcript_highlight_id` became required for the status `200`
  - the response property `updated_at` became required for the status `200`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/trytrata/apis/trytrata-api/changes/transcripts/:transcript_id/highlights/post.md)

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