---
title: "Finish a direct upload and start transcription"
method: POST
path: "/v1/uploads/{job_id}/commit"
tags: ["Transcription"]
---

# Finish a direct upload and start transcription

`POST /v1/uploads/{job_id}/commit`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://whipscribe.com/api`
- URL: `https://whipscribe.com/api/v1/uploads/{job_id}/commit`
- Auth: API key in header `X-API-Key`

Call after the file bytes have been uploaded to the ticket's `upload_url`. Echo back `object_key` and `options` from the ticket.

## Path parameters

- `job_id` string, uuid, required

## Request body

- UploadCommit
  - `object_key` string, required: `object_key` from the upload ticket.
  - `options` object, required: `options` from the upload ticket, unchanged.
  - `original_filename` string: Optional display name for the job.

## Response `200`

Already committed; returns the existing job.

- SubmitAccepted
  - `job_id` string, uuid, required
  - `status` 'queued' | 'processing' | 'done' | 'failed', required
  - `claim_token` string: Returned only when no user identity was supplied. Send it as `X-Claim-Token` on later reads of this job.

## Other responses

- `202`: Job accepted.
- `400`: Malformed request (e.g. `BAD_ID`, `BAD_URL`, `BAD_IDEMPOTENCY_KEY`).
- `401`: Missing or invalid API key, or the job needs an ownership proof (`X-Claim-Token`).
- `402`: Not enough credit (`NO_CREDITS`, `INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS_FOR_DURATION`), or the finished transcript is locked (`transcript_locked`). With your own API key the body also carries `checkout_url`: a card checkout link for your account that a person can open and pay; then repeat the request.
- `403`: The `object_key` does not belong to this job and caller (`KEY_MISMATCH`).
- `404`: Unknown job id, or a job that is not yours.
- `429`: Too many requests (`RATE_LIMITED`, `QUOTA_EXCEEDED`), or the account already has as many recordings running as its plan allows at once (`CONCURRENCY_LIMIT`: Workspace subscribers, counted across the website and all of the account's keys). Wait `Retry-After` seconds and submit again; a refused commit can be retried with the same upload.

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