{nasa_id}: Get captions for a video

API: nasa.gov:nasa-image-and-video-library-api
Endpoint: /captions/{nasa_id}
Response format: application/json
Auth: unknown
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 452ms

Description

Returns a redirect to the VTT caption file for videos. Returns an error if the media type is not video.

Parameters (1)

nasa_id (string, path, required)

NASA ID of the video asset

Examples (2)

Get captions URL for a NASA video openapi-spec
curl 'https://images-api.nasa.gov/captions/NDTV000908_Apollo_Digest_Series_Spacecraft for Apollo'
import requests

resp = requests.get("https://images-api.nasa.gov/captions/NDTV000908_Apollo_Digest_Series_Spacecraft for Apollo")
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("nasa-image-and-video-library")
result = api.fetch("captions/{nasa_id}")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://images-api.nasa.gov/captions/NDTV000908_Apollo_Digest_Series_Spacecraft for Apollo");
const data = await resp.json();
Get captions for a video openapi-spec
curl 'https://images-api.nasa.gov/captions/JPL-20190606-TECHf-0001'
import requests

resp = requests.get("https://images-api.nasa.gov/captions/JPL-20190606-TECHf-0001")
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("nasa-image-and-video-library")
result = api.fetch("captions/{nasa_id}")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://images-api.nasa.gov/captions/JPL-20190606-TECHf-0001");
const data = await resp.json();

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-04-16 02:27:02.951961 200 452ms
2026-04-16 00:11:01.923285 404 485ms
2026-04-15 03:21:02.340319 404 460ms
2026-04-15 00:46:02.030552 200 501ms
2026-04-14 03:25:36.612390 200 549ms
2026-04-14 01:49:49.939912 404 743ms
2026-04-12 16:51:40.163115 404 269ms
2026-04-12 15:52:50.005290 200 263ms
2026-04-10 06:50:31.681864 404 374ms
2026-04-10 00:43:50.004029 200 457ms
2026-04-09 03:15:02.854915 200 533ms
2026-04-09 00:17:24.856541 404 264ms
2026-03-23 10:10:13.813794 404 556ms
2026-03-23 09:04:12.349023 200 311ms