List captions or subtitles

GET/accounts/{account_id}/stream/{identifier}/captions

Lists the available captions or subtitles for a specific video.

Security

API Token

The preferred authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. Create a token.

Example:Authorization: Bearer Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY

API Email + API Key

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API, used in conjunction with a Global API key.

Example:X-Auth-Email: user@example.com

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. When possible, use API tokens instead of Global API keys.

Example:X-Auth-Key: 144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194

Accepted Permissions (at least one required)

Stream WriteStream Read

Path ParametersExpand Collapse

account_id: string

Identifier.

maxLength32

identifier: string

A Cloudflare-generated unique identifier for a media item.

maxLength32

ReturnsExpand Collapse

errors: array of object { code, message, documentation_url, source }

code: number

minimum1000

message: string

documentation_url: optional string

source: optional object { pointer }

pointer: optional string

messages: array of object { code, message, documentation_url, source }

code: number

minimum1000

message: string

documentation_url: optional string

source: optional object { pointer }

pointer: optional string

success: true

Whether the API call was successful.

result: optional array of Caption { generated, label, language, status }

generated: optional boolean

Whether the caption was generated via AI.

label: optional string

The language label displayed in the native language to users.

language: optional string

The language tag in BCP 47 format.

status: optional "ready" or "inprogress" or "error"

The status of a generated caption.

One of the following:

"ready"

"inprogress"

"error"

List captions or subtitles

curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/stream/$IDENTIFIER/captions \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "success": true,
  "result": [
    {
      "generated": true,
      "label": "Türkçe",
      "language": "tr",
      "status": "ready"
    }
  ]
}

Returns Examples

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "success": true,
  "result": [
    {
      "generated": true,
      "label": "Türkçe",
      "language": "tr",
      "status": "ready"
    }
  ]
}