Transcription Webhooks & Callbacks: The Complete Guide
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If you're polling GET /v2/transcript/{id} every few seconds waiting for a transcript to finish, you're burning requests and adding latency for no reason. AssemblyAI can just call you back. Set one field, expose one endpoint, and you get a POST the moment transcription completes. This guide covers the whole path—not just "set webhook_url," but the part most docs skip: what the payload actually contains, how to verify the request is really from us, and how retries behave when your server hiccups.…
1Key Takeaways
- If you're polling GET /v2/transcript/{id} every few seconds waiting for a transcript to finish, you're burning requests and adding latency for no reason.
- Set one field, expose one endpoint, and you get a POST the moment transcription completes.
- This guide covers the whole path—not just "set webhook_url," but the part most docs skip: what the payload actually contains, how to verify the request is really from us, and how retries behave when your server hiccups.….
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3Why it matters
Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that if you're polling GET /v2/transcript/{id} every few seconds waiting for a transcript to finish, you're burning requests and adding latency for no reason.
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