Documentation

What Kinode is

Kinode turns spoken audio and video into text you can read, search, repurpose, and act on — and then builds a family of products on top of that one capability.

At the center is a transcription engine. Paste a link from YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Twitch, Rumble, or a podcast feed, or upload your own file, and Kinode returns a clean, timestamped, punctuated transcript. Everything else in the product line is something useful you can do with that transcript: summaries and study kits, automatic show notes, SEO pages, brand monitoring, scheduled briefings, live meetings that transcribe themselves per speaker, and cryptographically sealed records.

The products share one account, one plan, one quota, and one transcript cache. A video transcribed in the workspace is instantly available to Monitor, Digest, Pages, Study, and the API without being fetched or billed again.

The product line at a glance

Accounts & the workspace

Creating an account

Sign up at /signup with an email and password. There is a free tier for trying the core workspace; paid plans raise your monthly quota and unlock the products that watch feeds on a schedule (Show Notes, Monitor, Digest) and the API.

The workspace

The workspace at /app is where the core loop lives: paste a link or upload a file, watch it transcribe, read the result, and generate insights. Everything you transcribe is saved to your history at /history, so you can return to any transcript and its generated outputs without re-fetching.

Organizations & teams

An account can create an organization and invite members. Organizations share a plan and quota, and some products are org-aware: Study lets an owner assign a kit to the whole org and track completion; Support Bot verifies customers against org accounts. Manage members and invites at /organization.

Dark and light

The marketing site is light by default; the console (the workspace and every product page) is designed dark, with a theme toggle in the header. Your choice is remembered per device.

Core concepts

Five ideas explain how nearly everything in Kinode behaves. Read these once and the individual products make sense quickly.

Sources

A source is anything Kinode can turn into a transcript. Seven kinds run through the same pipeline:

The transcription pipeline

When a source has a caption track, Kinode fetches it and cleans it up with AI — restoring punctuation, capitalization, and paragraph breaks — so it reads like a document instead of a caption dump. When a source has no captions, it goes through speech-to-text. Either way, every line keeps a timestamp that links back to that moment in the original.

Insights

Once a transcript exists, one click generates an insight from it: a summary, chapter markers, key quotes, a study guide, a quiz, flash cards, highlights, suggested clips, or a translation into 100+ languages. There is also a grounded chat that answers questions using only the transcript and cites timestamps — the fastest way to find what someone said in an hour of video.

Caching & billing

Transcripts are cached globally. A given video is fetched and billed once; every later visit, insight, or API call against it is free and instant, for you and for everyone. If you work with the same channels repeatedly, this is the single biggest lever on your cost.

Quota & credits

Your plan sets a monthly quota of transcription and AI generation. The workspace and the API draw from the same pool, so there's no separate API bill to reason about. When quota is exhausted, API calls return 402 and the workspace prompts you to upgrade. See Pricing for the current tiers.

Transcripts Core

Paste a link or upload a file and get a clean, timestamped transcript — then generate summaries, chapters, translations, or an MP3, or ask the chat questions about what was said.

Transcripts is the workspace the rest of the product line is built on. It fetches the caption track when a video has one and runs speech recognition when it doesn't. Either way it restores punctuation, capitalization, and paragraphs, so what you get reads like a document instead of a caption dump. Every line keeps its timestamp and links back to that moment in the source.

Once the transcript exists, one click generates a summary, chapter markers, key quotes, a study guide, a quiz, flash cards, highlights, or a translation into 100+ languages. The grounded chat answers questions using only the transcript and cites timestamps, which is the fastest way to find what someone said in an hour of video.

How it works

1. Paste a link or upload a file. YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Twitch, Rumble, a podcast RSS feed, or your own audio or video at /upload.
2. Kinode fetches or transcribes. Caption tracks are cleaned up with AI; sources without captions go through speech-to-text. A progress indicator shows the job running.
3. Read, search, and generate. The transcript arrives timestamped and readable. Click any insight, or ask the chat a question.
4. Export or automate. Copy it, download it, convert it to MP3, or do all of it through the REST API from n8n, Zapier, Make, or your own code.

The insights you can generate

How-to: transcribe a YouTube video

1. Open the workspace at /app.
2. Paste the URL into the box and submit. A playlist or channel URL expands into its videos.
3. Wait for the pipeline. A cached video appears instantly; a new one shows a progress state while it fetches or transcribes.
4. Generate what you need. Click Summary, Chapters, or any other insight; open the chat to ask questions.

What people use it for

• Research without the watching — skim an hour-long lecture as text in minutes, then pull quotes with timestamps.
• Content repurposing — write the blog post, newsletter, or social copy from an accurate transcript.
• Accessibility & compliance — give every published video a readable, searchable text version.
• Competitive intelligence — transcribe competitor launches and earnings interviews, then search what was said.

Common issues

Show Notes Automated

Connect your podcast RSS feed once. From then on, every new episode gets show notes, chapter markers, pull quotes, and a newsletter draft on its own.

Most podcasters put off show notes until the last minute, because writing them is tedious and the episode is already done. Show Notes does the writing for you. Connect your RSS feed once, and each new episode is transcribed and turned into publication-ready notes: a summary written for a listener deciding whether to press play, timestamped chapters, verbatim pull quotes, and a list of links and mentions taken from the audio itself.

Each episode also gets a newsletter draft with a subject line, a hook, and a call to action, so the episode email becomes a quick review instead of an hour of writing. Notes appear in your dashboard as soon as processing finishes. Paste them into your podcast host, or pull them through the API.

How it works

1. Connect your feed. Paste your podcast's RSS URL once at /shownotes. The newest episode processes immediately so you can see the output.
2. Kinode watches the feed. The feed is checked every 30 minutes. New episodes get transcribed whether or not captions exist anywhere.
3. Notes generate themselves. Summary, chapters, quotes, links, and a newsletter draft appear for each episode.
4. Publish anywhere. Copy from the dashboard into your host, or pull via API into your publishing pipeline.

How-to: connect a feed

1. Find your RSS URL. Every podcast host exposes one (often labeled "RSS feed" in your show settings). It usually ends in .xml or /feed.
2. Paste it into Show Notes and save. The latest episode is fetched and processed right away as a preview of the output.
3. Leave it running. Kinode re-checks every 30 minutes and processes each new episode automatically.

What people use it for

• Solo podcasters — ship notes and the episode email in minutes instead of losing an evening per episode.
• Podcast networks — keep note quality consistent across every show without hiring writers per feed.
• Producers & VAs — have client-ready notes waiting when an episode drops instead of the day after.
• SEO for episodes — chapters and summaries give search engines real text to index for every release.

Common issues

Study Teams-ready

Bundle lectures, tutorials, or a whole playlist into a study kit and get one merged study guide, Anki-ready flash cards, and quizzes — all built from the actual transcripts.

Video is how a lot of people learn now, but you can't skim it and you can't test yourself on it. Study fixes both. Paste up to 12 lecture links into a kit, and Kinode merges their transcripts into one body of material: a study guide with key concepts and review questions, Anki-style flash cards, and a multiple-choice quiz where every answer traces back to something the lecturer said.

The built-in review mode schedules your flash cards with spaced repetition. Cards you miss come back sooner; cards you know come back later. A tutor chat answers questions using only the kit's transcripts and cites timestamps, so it can't feed you an answer that wasn't in the lecture.

For teams, an org owner can assign a kit to the whole organization and watch completion: who opened the guide, who took the quiz, and what they scored. Quizzes are graded server-side and members never see the answer key, so Study holds up for real onboarding and training.

How it works

1. Build a kit. Name it and paste video links, one per line (up to 12). Kinode fetches or transcribes each source.
2. Generate the material. One click each for the merged study guide, the flash-card deck, and the quiz.
3. Study it. Read the guide, drill cards in spaced-repetition review, take the quiz, or ask the tutor.
4. Assign it (teams). Org owners assign kits to members and track guide views and quiz scores per person.
5. Take it with you. Export cards as CSV for Anki, or the whole kit as Markdown for your notes app.

What people use it for

• Exam prep — turn a semester's lecture playlist into one guide, one deck, and a self-test.
• Employee onboarding — assign training videos as a kit and see who finished and how they scored, without an LMS.
• Certification study — merge scattered tutorials into a single syllabus with drillable cards.
• Journal clubs & bootcamps — everyone gets the same guide and quiz from the same material.

Common issues

Pages SEO

Publish every transcript as a hosted public page with the full text, chapters, and summary, so your back catalog can rank for the words spoken in it.

A creator's back catalog is full of long-tail search queries that were spoken out loud and never written down, which means Google can't see them. The big podcasts solve this with transcript pages on their websites. Almost nobody else does, because building and maintaining a transcript site is real work. Kinode already produces the transcript, the chapters, and the summary — Pages just publishes them.

Create a site, paste a video link, and the page is live: full transcript, chapters, summary, embedded player, canonical URL, and Article plus VideoObject structured data, all server-rendered so crawlers see everything. The site index lists every page you've published, and every page links back to it.

How it works

1. Create a site. Name it and pick a slug at /pages. That becomes your public namespace at /p/your-site.
2. Publish transcripts. Paste a video URL. Videos you've already transcribed publish instantly; new ones get fetched first.
3. Enrich (optional). Generate a summary and chapters in the workspace and the public page picks them up on its own.
4. Get indexed. Submit your site index to Search Console once. New pages are linked from it automatically.

What makes the pages rank

What people use it for

• Podcasters — every episode gets a page that can rank for the topics discussed in it.
• YouTubers — years of videos become crawlable text without touching your own website.
• Course creators — public lesson transcripts pull search traffic toward your paid material.
• Agencies — run a transcript site per client show and hand them the search-traffic report.

Common issues

Monitor Automated

Watch the channels and feeds you choose, and let discovery sweep the rest of YouTube for new videos mentioning your keywords. Everything gets transcribed and searched inside the spoken words — and every hit comes with the exact quote and a link to the moment.

Media monitoring tools read titles, descriptions, and comments. But the mention that matters is usually in the audio: a founder name-dropped in minute 43 of a podcast, or your product panned halfway through a review video. Text-only monitors can't see any of that. Monitor transcribes the media itself and searches your keywords inside the spoken words.

You choose channels and podcast feeds to watch, and discovery sweeps the rest of YouTube for fresh uploads matching your terms. New videos and episodes are usually transcribed within about 30 minutes of publishing. Every hit records the verbatim quote, the timestamp, and a link that jumps to the moment, so what you forward to your team is the sentence itself rather than a guess.

How it works

1. Define keywords. Brand names, product names, executives, competitors, ticker symbols — anything worth catching.
2. Pick sources + discovery. Watch specific channels and feeds, and let discovery scan new YouTube uploads platform-wide.
3. Kinode transcribes new releases. Roughly every 30 minutes, new videos and episodes are fetched and transcribed, with or without captions.
4. Get hits with proof. Each mention carries the quote, the timestamp, and a jump link. Review them in the dashboard at /monitor as they land.

What people use it for

• Brand & PR teams — find out a YouTuber mentioned you hours after upload, with the exact quote ready to share.
• Investor relations — catch your ticker discussed across finance podcasts as episodes drop.
• Competitive tracking — watch competitors' channels and read how they position against you, verbatim.
• Crisis monitoring — during an incident, follow the spoken coverage as well as the written headlines.

Common issues

Digest Automated

A daily or weekly briefing of everything new from your watched channels and connected feeds. Each item is transcribed, summarized, and linked — and the briefing lands in Discord, a webhook, or your dashboard.

Keeping up with a beat — an industry, a set of competitors, a roster of creators — normally means watching hours of content or accepting that you'll miss things. Digest removes that tradeoff. Point Monitor at the channels and Show Notes at the feeds you care about, pick a time, and every day or week Kinode delivers a briefing of what was said, summarized to the paragraph, with links to each source.

Because Digest rides on the transcript cache, an item summarized once is never paid for twice. And any video in your digest is one click from its full transcript, chapters, and chat in the workspace.

How it works

1. Watch your sources. Add channels in Monitor and feeds in Show Notes. Digest uses both.
2. Set the schedule. Daily or weekly, pick the hour, and optionally add a Discord or JSON webhook at /digest.
3. Kinode writes the edition. New items are transcribed, summarized, and composed into one briefing.
4. Read it anywhere. In Discord, in your own tooling via webhook, or on the Digest page.

Delivery options

What people use it for

• Competitive intel — every competitor podcast and channel, summarized into one morning read.
• Creator research — keep up with your niche without watching your niche.
• Team briefings — pipe the digest into a Discord channel the whole team reads.
• Investor monitoring — a weekly roll-up of every earnings interview and finance show you follow.

Common issues

Meetings Live

Host live video meetings in the browser — scheduled or instant, open or passcode-protected. Each attendee's own microphone transcribes their words under their name, so the record of who said what is accurate.

Most meeting-AI tools record one audio stream and use AI to guess where one voice ends and the next begins. That guessing breaks down when people sound alike or talk over each other. Meetings avoids the problem: every attendee's own microphone transcribes their own words under their own name, live, seconds behind speech. Nobody's identity is inferred, so the transcript can serve as the actual record of the meeting.

Meetings run in the browser with multi-party video and screen share. Schedule one with a link and waiting room, use your permanent personal room, or start one on the spot. Every line carries wall-clock time. When it ends, formal minutes with attendees, decisions, and action items write themselves, and uploaded recordings can be exported with names and timestamps as a subtitle track or burned into the video.

How it works

1. Start or schedule. Instant meeting, personal room, or scheduled link with an optional passcode and waiting room, from /meetings.
2. Everyone talks, everyone transcribes. Each participant's mic feeds their own live transcript, line by line, under their name.
3. End the meeting. Minutes, a summary, and the speaker-labeled transcript are ready when you hang up.
4. Export the record. SRT, TXT, Markdown, Word, or the video itself with names and clock time embedded.

Meeting types & access

Exports

After a meeting you can export the record as minutes (attendees, decisions, action items), a summary, or the raw speaker-labeled transcript in SRT, TXT, Markdown, or Word. For uploaded recordings, Kinode can embed the speaker names and wall-clock time as a subtitle track, or burn them directly into the picture. To seal the record cryptographically, see Certify.

What people use it for

• Client calls — send minutes with decisions and action items while the meeting is still fresh.
• Interviews & research — verbatim, speaker-accurate quotes with wall-clock timestamps you can cite.
• Depositions & disputes — who said what is captured per speaker at the moment of speech, not reconstructed later.
• Distributed teams — everyone who skipped the call can read the record in two minutes.

Common issues

Certify Signed

One click turns any meeting transcript into a digitally signed PDF — speaker-attributed and timestamped, sealed with an X.509 signature from the Kinode Signing Authority. If anyone edits the file afterwards, verification fails.

A transcript in a Word file can be edited by anyone who opens it, which limits what it can prove. Certify renders the meeting's speaker-attributed, timestamped record to PDF and signs it cryptographically, so the document itself shows whether it has been altered since certification.

The two halves matter together. Meetings captures attribution live, with each speaker transcribed from their own microphone, and the Signing Authority (the same X.509 infrastructure behind PDF Studio) seals the export. That gives disputes, HR records, client sign-offs, and compliance archives a record that holds up on its own.

How it works

1. Hold the meeting. Live in Meetings, or upload a recording and generate the speaker map.
2. Click "Certified PDF". The transcript renders to a clean PDF and is signed by the Kinode Signing Authority.
3. Store it anywhere. The proof travels inside the file — nobody needs a Kinode account to verify it.
4. Verify on demand. The verifier reports the signer, the timestamp, and whether the bytes are intact.

Verifying a certified record

Drop the file into Kinode's verifier at /pdf/sign, or open it in Adobe Acrobat with the Kinode root CA installed. Either way you get an instant verdict: who signed, when, and whether a single byte has changed. Every page also carries the certification watermark and the signing timestamp.

What people use it for

• Disputes & legal — a speaker-attributed record whose integrity the other side can check for themselves.
• HR & compliance — disciplinary meetings and policy briefings archived as sealed records.
• Client sign-offs — certify the call where scope was agreed, before memories diverge.
• Board minutes — the canonical record of what was decided, sealed the day it happened.

Common issues

Support Bot Discord

A support desk that lives where your customers already are. AI answers the common questions, real issues become tickets, identity gets verified by customer ID and PIN, and hard problems go to your team.

If your customers are already in your Discord, that's where your support desk should be. Support Bot answers common questions from your knowledge base, opens private ticket threads for anything real, and verifies who it's talking to by customer ID and PIN, so account-specific help doesn't leak across users.

Everything mirrors to a web dashboard: ticket history, statuses, priorities, and the full conversation. When the AI reaches the edge of what it knows, it escalates to your team rather than improvising, and the handoff carries the whole thread so nobody has to ask the customer to repeat themselves.

How it works

1. Install the bot. Invite it to your server and point it at your docs and FAQ content, from /supportbot.
2. AI handles the front line. Common questions get answered in-channel or in DMs, with sources.
3. Real issues become tickets. Private ticket channels with status and priority, mirrored to the web dashboard.
4. Humans take the hard ones. Escalations arrive with full context; your team answers from Discord or the dashboard.

Identity verification

For account-specific help, the bot links a Discord user to a real account via customer ID and PIN. This keeps one customer from seeing another's account details, so billing and order questions can be answered safely in a shared community.

What people use it for

• SaaS communities — handle the how-do-I questions automatically and keep engineers on real bugs.
• Game studios — resolve account and purchase issues with PIN-verified identity instead of trusting DMs.
• Creator memberships — give paying members a support lane that doesn't depend on you reading every channel.
• Indie products — a one-person company gets a 24/7 first-response desk.

Common issues

PDF Studio In-browser

A complete PDF editor that runs entirely in your browser. Edit the text and images already in a PDF, fill forms, rearrange pages, password-protect or unlock files, and sign documents with real X.509 digital signatures — with nothing uploaded for the editing itself.

Most PDF editors ask you to upload the document first, which is a problem when the document is a contract, a medical record, or a term sheet. PDF Studio does its editing entirely in your browser: text edits, image edits, freehand drawing, highlights, whiteout, page operations (rotate, reorder, delete, merge, split), and form filling all happen client-side, and the file never leaves your machine. Open it at /pdf.

Two operations do use a server, because they need real cryptography: digital signing/verification (the Kinode Signing Authority) and password protection/removal (industry-standard AES encryption). Both are described below, and both are explicit actions you choose.

Opening a document

Drag a PDF onto the editor, or use the file picker. The document renders locally and you're editing immediately. If the file is encrypted, PDF Studio handles it automatically — see Protect & unlock.

The toolset

Editing existing text

The Edit content tool is what makes this a true editor rather than an annotator. Switch to it and every line of text and every image already in the PDF gets a hover outline.

1. Click a line of text. It opens in place, pre-filled with the original words at a matched size, font family (mapped to Helvetica, Times, or Courier), weight, and color sampled from the page.
2. Retype it. When you click away, the original text is removed from the PDF's content stream — so the old words are gone from search and copy-paste too, not just hidden — and your new text takes its place.
3. Or clear it to erase the line entirely.

Editing existing images

With Edit content active, click an image that's part of the PDF to select it:

• Move — drag it; a live preview follows the cursor.
• Resize — drag a corner handle.
• Replace — swap in a new PNG/JPG at the same spot.
• Delete — remove it from the page (press Delete, or use the toolbar action).

Moves and resizes rewrite the image's placement inside the PDF without re-encoding the picture, so there's no quality loss. Page rotation and unusual page origins are handled correctly.

Filling forms

When a PDF contains an interactive form (an AcroForm), a Forms tool appears and the fields become live inputs — text boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons, and dropdowns — laid directly over the page. Type into them, and the values are written into the PDF when you download. Field values are part of the undo history, so you can undo/redo edits like anything else.

1. Switch to the Forms tool. The fillable fields highlight.
2. Fill them in. Text, checkbox, radio, and dropdown fields all work.
3. Download. The values are baked into the form fields of the exported PDF, visible in any viewer.

Page operations

Watermarks

Add a diagonal text watermark (a preset like DRAFT or your own text), set its opacity and color, and choose whether it applies to all pages or a range. The watermark is drawn into the PDF when you download, split, or export a PNG.

Protect & unlock (passwords)

The Secure button opens a panel with two modes. Both use industry-standard AES-256 encryption on the server (the file is processed and returned; it isn't stored).

Protect a PDF

1. Open Secure → Protect.
2. Set a password. A password to open encrypts the whole document; a separate owner password (optional) controls permissions without blocking opening.
3. Choose what's allowed — printing, editing, copying text, annotations, form filling, and page assembly. Anything you leave unchecked is blocked in the protected file.
4. Protect & download. Kinode flattens your edits, applies any watermark, encrypts with AES-256, and downloads the protected copy.

Remove restrictions

Secure → Remove restrictions strips a document's security so you can edit and print it.

• Permission-only locks (a file that opens fine but blocks editing or printing) are removed with no password needed.
• Open-password files need that password entered once; then the restriction is removed.

When you open an encrypted file in the editor, this runs automatically: permission-only files unlock silently, and open-password files prompt you once for the password before editing begins.

Sign & certify (digital signatures)

Signing goes further than a drawn squiggle. Open /pdf/sign:

1. Add a visual signature. Draw one, type one, or upload an image, and place it on any page.
2. Apply a cryptographic signature. The Kinode Signing Authority embeds an X.509 digital signature (PKCS#7 — the same standard Adobe uses) that proves who signed and when.
3. Verify anytime. Drop any signed PDF into the verifier for an instant verdict: intact or altered, signed by whom, at what moment. Change one character of a signed file and verification fails.

The CA you can install

Download the Kinode CA certificate once and install it in your OS or in Adobe Acrobat. From then on, every document your organization certifies validates cleanly, and Adobe shows a trusted green check instead of an "unknown issuer" warning.

What people use it for

• Contracts & NDAs — redline, sign, and return agreements without routing them through a third-party server.
• Sensitive documents — medical, legal, and financial files get edited where they sit: on your machine.
• Internal sign-offs — certify approvals with signatures your whole org can verify against one CA cert.
• Form finishing — fill, whiteout, stamp, protect, and flatten forms in minutes.

Common issues

Clips Preview

Kinode reads the transcript and finds the five most clippable moments in any video — with timestamps, verbatim hooks, ready-to-post captions, and hashtags. Rendered vertical clips with burned captions are coming next.

Turning long-form video into shorts usually means scrubbing through footage or paying an editor. The slow part is finding the moments, and finding is something a transcript is good for. Kinode already has the transcript, so it can score every stretch of a video for hook strength and self-containment, then hand you the five best moments with timestamps.

Moment detection is live now as the Suggested clips insight in the workspace. Paste any video, click once, and get five candidate clips with verbatim opening hooks, notes on why each works, post-ready captions, and hashtags. The full Clips product adds rendering: 9:16 crops with word-synced burned captions. It's in development, and waitlist members get first access.

How it works today

1. Transcribe any video. The same paste-a-link workflow as everything else.
2. Generate Suggested clips. One click. Five moments, each 15–60 seconds, spread across the video.
3. Post. Jump to the timestamp, cut in your editor, and use the caption and hashtags as written.

API Developers

Everything the workspace does is a documented REST endpoint: transcripts, bulk fetches, playlist and channel expansion, uploads, AI insights, MP3 export, and grounded chat. Authenticate with a Bearer key, get JSON back.

If you can click it, you can curl it. The API draws from the same plan quota as the workspace, so there's no separate API pricing to reason about, and the transcript cache works for your code the same way it works in the app — a video any Kinode user has ever fetched returns instantly and doesn't bill you.

Authentication

Create a key under Account → API keys and send it as a Bearer token. Keys are scoped, and you can mint and revoke them at any time.

Authorization: Bearer kinode_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Endpoints

Examples

Bulk transcripts — cURL

curl -X POST https://usekinode.app/api/transcripts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KINODE_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ids": ["dQw4w9WgXcQ", "jNQXAC9IVRw"]}'

Upload your own file — cURL

curl -X POST https://usekinode.app/api/upload \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KINODE_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \
  -H "X-File-Name: standup-recording.mp4" \
  --data-binary @standup-recording.mp4

Summary — JavaScript

const res = await fetch("https://usekinode.app/api/insight/dQw4w9WgXcQ/summary", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.KINODE_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({}),
});
const { text } = await res.json();   // markdown summary

Grounded chat — Python

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://usekinode.app/api/chat",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['KINODE_KEY']}"},
    json={"videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ", "question": "What are the key takeaways?"},
)
print(r.json()["answer"])

Conventions

• Errors are JSON: { "error": "message" } with a meaningful HTTP status. 402 means quota or credits are exhausted.
• Caching is per video: repeat fetches of the same content are instant and never re-billed.
• Rate limits apply per key; batch endpoints accept up to 50 items per call.
• Async work (uploads, AI generation) returns a job or a pending list — poll /api/jobs/:id until it resolves.

Common issues

Integrations

Because every capability is a REST endpoint with Bearer auth, Kinode drops into no-code automation tools and your own services alike.

Common patterns

• Product features — add "transcribe this video" to your own app without building a transcription stack.
• Data pipelines — backfill a channel's entire history into your warehouse with bulk calls and playlist expansion.
• Automation — new upload → transcript → summary → Slack or Notion, no-code via n8n or Zapier.
• Research corpora — assemble searchable text datasets from thousands of videos, cached and deduplicated.

See /integrations for connector details and /api for the full endpoint reference.

Plans, quota & billing

One plan powers every product. Your quota is a shared monthly pool of transcription minutes and AI generations, used by the workspace and the API alike.

How quota works

• Shared pool. The workspace and the API draw from the same quota. There's no separate API bill.
• Cache-friendly. A source is billed the first time it's fetched. Repeat visits, insights, and API calls against a cached video are free.
• Resets monthly. Quota refills on your billing date. Hitting the limit returns 402 from the API and an upgrade prompt in the app.

Tiers

The free tier covers the core workspace for trying things out. Paid tiers raise quota and unlock the scheduled-watching products (Show Notes, Monitor, Digest) and the API. Some capabilities (channel lookups, higher batch sizes, webhooks) are Plus/Pro. See Pricing for current tiers and limits, and manage billing at Account.

Common issues

Troubleshooting

Cross-cutting problems and their causes. Each product section above also has its own "Common issues" — the search box at the top left finds any of them by symptom.

Glossary

Transcript

The timestamped, punctuated text of a source. The thing every other product is built on.

Source

Anything Kinode can transcribe: a YouTube/Vimeo/TikTok/Twitch/Rumble video, a podcast feed or episode, or an uploaded file.

Insight

Something generated from a transcript with one click: summary, chapters, quotes, study guide, quiz, flash cards, highlights, suggested clips, or translation.

Grounded chat

A chat that answers only from a transcript and cites timestamps, so it can't invent facts the source didn't contain.

Cache

The global store of transcripts. A source is fetched and billed once; every later use is instant and free.

Quota

Your plan's monthly pool of transcription and AI generation, shared by the workspace and the API.

Kit

A Study bundle of up to 12 sources merged into one guide, flash-card deck, and quiz.

Discovery

Monitor's platform-wide sweep of new YouTube uploads matching your keywords, beyond the sources you explicitly watch.

Managed / owner (org)

An organization shares one plan; the owner can invite members and assign Study kits.

AcroForm

A PDF's interactive form. When present, PDF Studio shows a Forms tool with live fields.

Flatten

Baking overlays (text, drawings, form values) into the PDF's pages so they're part of the file, done on download.

Open password

A password required to open (decrypt) a PDF. Real encryption — it can't be bypassed without the password.

Owner / permissions password

A password that restricts editing/printing but not opening. Kinode can remove these without a password.

X.509 / PKCS#7

The certificate and signature standards behind Kinode's digital signatures — the same ones Adobe uses.

Signing Authority

Kinode's certificate authority that issues the signatures used by PDF Studio and Certify.

Certify

Rendering a meeting transcript to a signed, tamper-evident PDF.

Bearer key

The API token (kinode_live_...) sent in the Authorization header. Minted and revoked from your account.

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