---
title: "GET /api/v1/x/tweets/{id}/subtitles"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/x/tweets/{id}/subtitles"
tags: ["Tweets"]
---

# GET /api/v1/x/tweets/{id}/subtitles

`GET /api/v1/x/tweets/{id}/subtitles`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://xquik.com`
- URL: `https://xquik.com/api/v1/x/tweets/{id}/subtitles`
- Auth: one of:
  - API key in header `x-api-key`
  - HTTP bearer
  - none

Returns the caption tracks of 1 public tweet's videos, as X's player reads them. Each track has its language, name, timed cues, and full text. A tweet without video, or a video without captions, returns no track and costs nothing.

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Query parameters

- `fields` string
- `omit` string

## Response `200`

Caption tracks of the tweet's videos

- object
  - `subtitles` TweetSubtitles, required: Holds the caption tracks of 1 tweet's videos.
    - `tweetId` string, required: ID of the tweet.
    - `tracks` SubtitleTrack[], required: Caption tracks, empty when no video has captions.
      - `mediaKey` string: Media key of the video, as media rows carry it.
      - `language` string: Language code of the track, in lower case.
      - `name` string: Track name the uploader or X gave it.
      - `autoGenerated` boolean, required: True when X transcribed the audio itself.
      - `url` string, required: Link to the track's first WebVTT file.
      - `text` string, required: Every cue's text in order, as 1 line.
      - `truncated` boolean, required: True when the track holds more than 50 caption files. The cues then cover the first 50.
      - `cues` object[], required: Timed captions in order.
        - `startMs` integer, required: Start time in milliseconds.
        - `endMs` integer, required: End time in milliseconds.
        - `text` string, required: Caption text, with a line break between lines.

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid input. A value past its maxLength gets this answer, & the message names the field & its limit.
- `401`: Non-MPP paid reads require Bearer authentication. Without credentials, the answer offers a guest checkout but does not create it. Invalid credentials return a plain error. Confirm before using any offered action.
- `402`: Payment required. MPP reads include `WWW-Authenticate`. Authenticated reads include balances, plus checkout when the key can open it. A key that reads only gets the account page instead. A failed request never creates checkout. A caller on a plan gets top-up only, plus `credits_renew_at` when the plan renews. Guest keys offer top-up.
- `404`: X shows no post with this ID. `reason` says why when X's answer named it. It is `deleted` with the message "The author deleted this post.", `author_suspended` with "X suspended this post's author.", or `protected` with "This post's author limits who can see it." Without `reason`, X named no cause, and the message is "Tweet not found. Check the tweet ID."
- `424`: Dependency unavailable, unauthorized, or limited. Default v1 uses 502. Best-practice responses use 424 for transparent dependency failures. Search answers 424 `search_unavailable` when X fails the query itself, or when its filters matched none of the last 3,000 posts read. The message says how far back the search read.
- `429`: Too many requests right now. Each user gets 500 reads a second. Each minute allows 120 writes & 60 deletes. `x_api_rate_limited` means X limits this read for now. Neither answer costs anything. Wait for the seconds in `Retry-After`, then retry.
- `500`: Unexpected error.
- `502`: Dependency unavailable, unauthorized, or limited. Default v1 uses 502. Best-practice responses use 424 for transparent dependency failures. Search answers 424 `search_unavailable` when X fails the query itself, or when its filters matched none of the last 3,000 posts read. The message says how far back the search read.
- `503`: Retry x_api_unavailable after Retry-After. With X-Xquik-Busy, retry until your deadline.
- `default`: Unexpected error.

## Changes

- **2026-10-20** `45942c75fdc2`: 20 warning
  - added the new `topup_in_progress` enum value to the `allOf[#/components/schemas/Error]/error/oneOf[subschema #1: LegacyErrorCode]/` response property for the response status `429`
  - added the new `topup_in_progress` enum value to the `allOf[#/components/schemas/Error]/error/oneOf[subschema #2: StructuredError]/code` response property for the response status `429`
  - added the new `topup_in_progress` enum value to the `error/oneOf[subschema #1: LegacyErrorCode]/` response property for the response status `400`
  - added the new `topup_in_progress` enum value to the `error/oneOf[subschema #1: LegacyErrorCode]/` response property for the response status `404`
  - …16 more

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/xquik-dev/apis/xquik-api/changes/api/v1/x/tweets/:id/subtitles/get.md)

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