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POST https://api.transcriptmagic.com/api/linkedin/transcript
Public LinkedIn posts that contain a video are supported. The transcript is returned as plain text with no per-line timing.

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Request

curl -X POST https://api.transcriptmagic.com/api/linkedin/transcript \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/artificial-analysis_some-slug-activity-7465082408409870337-4Pm-"}'

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Response

{
  "transcript": "Hey everyone, today I want to walk\nyou through how we built the new product line...",
  "credits": 994
}
transcript is a plain string with newlines between spoken lines — there is no per-line timing in the LinkedIn response and no videoUrls field. LinkedIn is a transcript-only platform.

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Supported URL formats

FormatExample
Public post with videohttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/{author}_{slug}-activity-{id}-{code}
Only public post URLs that contain a video are accepted. Member profile, company page, and article URLs without an embedded video are rejected with 400 Invalid URL.

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FAQ

No. Only publicly viewable posts can be transcribed. Posts visible to connections only, or to a restricted audience, can’t be fetched because the API can’t authenticate as a connection.
Only posts that contain a video. Text-only posts, image posts, and document/carousel posts have nothing to transcribe and are rejected.
No. LinkedIn transcripts are returned as plain text with newlines between lines — there is no per-line timing.
If the post’s video has no available transcript, you’ll get 404 No transcript available and you won’t be charged.