curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/videos/video_123' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

# GET /videos/{video_id} (OpenAI API)
Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization; OpenAI API key; required.
Status: Deprecated.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Retrieve a video

## Critical Gotchas
* The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.
* Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/videos/video_123' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| video_id | path | string | Yes | The identifier of the video to retrieve. |

## Response example
{"id":"string","object":"video"}

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GET /videos/{video_id} — OpenAI API

Deprecated

OpenAI API key (required); https://api.openai.com/v1

OpenAI API

Retrieve a video

Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <OPENAI_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.

Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.openai.com/v1/videos/video_123' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
video_id	path	string	Yes	The identifier of the video to retrieve.

Response 200 OK

{
  "id": "string",
  "object": "video",
  "model": "string",
  "status": "queued",
  "progress": 0,
  "created_at": 0,
  "completed_at": 0,
  "expires_at": 0,
  "prompt": "string",
  "size": "720x1280",
  "seconds": "string",
  "remixed_from_video_id": "string",
  "error": {
    "code": "string",
    "type": "string",
    "param": "string",
    "message": "string",
    "headers": {},
    "misalignment": {
      "review_target": "string",
      "error_type": "string",
      "detailed_explanation": "string",
      "steer": {
        "message": "string"
      }
    }
  }
}

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