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

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

> Download video content

## 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/content?variant=video' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| video_id | path | string | Yes | The identifier of the video whose media to download. |
| variant | query | string | No | Which downloadable asset to return. Defaults to the MP4 video. |

## Response example
"string"

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GET

GET /videos/{video_id}/content — OpenAI API

Deprecated

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

OpenAI API

Download video content

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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Agents: curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" this URL
→ 193 tokens · Vary: Accept

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/content?variant=video' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
video_id	path	string	Yes	The identifier of the video whose media to download.
variant	query	string	No	Which downloadable asset to return. Defaults to the MP4 video.

Response 200 OK

"string"

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