# /rec/download/ Meet VTT Cloud Recording Transcript - Only string format?

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rec-download-meet-vtt-cloud-recording-transcript-only-string-format/75688>\
**Category:** Meetings\
**Created:** [September 9, 2022, 11:29am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rec-download-meet-vtt-cloud-recording-transcript-only-string-format/75688 "2022-09-09T11:29:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![fingerprint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@fingerprint](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/fingerprint)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 11:30am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rec-download-meet-vtt-cloud-recording-transcript-only-string-format/75688/1 "2022-09-09T11:30:00Z")

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VTT for meeting cloud recorded files shows as:

```
    {
        "id": "91aa16a2-9937-41ba-854a-f781b7ec58ed",
        "meeting_id": "ZiB4IiqWQpCxKvb4OvvqcQ==",
        "recording_start": "2022-08-18T11:54:45Z",
        "recording_end": "2022-08-18T12:54:32Z",
        "file_type": "TRANSCRIPT",
        "file_extension": "VTT",
        "file_size": 63754,
        "play_url": "domain/rec/play/y-esDAnqdmyGbigPaWzbe8Wz-uLvVTYvdjPgYIoWbyY_MjzdFh1xDQvgeulqwYDTae6VeEywBo0iitsF.af3ES2Ai1KgCuf51",
        **"download_url": "domain.zoom.us/rec/download/y-esDAnqdmyGbigPaWzbe8Wz-uLvVTYvdjPgYIoWbyY_MjzdFh1xDQvgeulqwYDTae6VeEywBo0iitsF.af3ES2Ai1KgCuf51",**
        "status": "completed",
        "recording_type": "audio_transcript"
    }

```

Then when one hits the API with

_download\_url?access\_token={token}_

It downloads the VTT as string:

```auto
31
00:09:10.350 --> 00:09:12.510
Graham Robinson: it's a strategy to its.

32
00:09:13.380 --> 00:09:14.700
Graham Robinson: event driven strategy.

33
00:09:14.910 --> 00:09:17.850
Peter Bremberg: yeah nice congrats that's great.

```

This is inconvenient to parse, modify- extract etc.  
Is just an infinite string with no divisions.

Beyond something the speaker get’s lost.

Which is okay but it then took out the PersonaEntity at all… it should come as _Unknown\_Speaker_ so it keeps the format standardised across the VTT.

E.G.

```auto

255
00:54:20.370 --> 00:54:20.670
Okay.

256
01:00:26.970 --> 01:00:27.240
here.

```

Is there any way to get the VTT on another format than this (?) Is it configurable at account level for cloud-recordings settings— or to pass on params to endpoint ?

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**Author:** ![gianni.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/gianni.zoom/32/32523_2.png) [@gianni.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/gianni.zoom)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rec-download-meet-vtt-cloud-recording-transcript-only-string-format/75688/2 "2022-09-13T01:02:45Z")

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Hi @fingerprint , thank you for your inquiry. Could you share what other format you’d like?

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**Author:** ![fingerprint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@fingerprint](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/fingerprint)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rec-download-meet-vtt-cloud-recording-transcript-only-string-format/75688/3 "2022-11-06T22:19:30Z")

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@gianni.zoom

To be consistent: **The Phone transcript comes as JSON from within your API already.**

Why not doing the same on the Meet Transcript?

On JSON format kindly, we are currently parsing it ourselves.