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Playback and attribution

The API returns metadata. It never returns video, audio or caption files, and no media passes through our servers.

How a clip is played

Each response carries two URLs:

  • embedUrl: the source platform's official embed, ready to drop into an iframe or a WebView.
  • watchUrl: the canonical page for the video, for attribution links.
html
<iframe
  src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FinOIdu21XA?start=12&playsinline=1"
  allow="autoplay; encrypted-media"
  allowfullscreen
></iframe>

Playback happens between your user and the platform. Bandwidth, ads, availability and the platform's terms are part of that relationship, not of this API.

Your responsibilities

  • Use the official embed, and keep the player's own controls and branding reachable.
  • Credit the source: show the channel name from channel.name and link watchUrl.
  • Follow the source platform's terms for embedded playback. They apply to your app, and they are stricter than anything we could grant you.
  • Do not present clips as your own recordings, and do not re-host the media.

What the licence covers

What you licence from Vocaflare is the index: clip ids, levels, timings, transcript alignment and word mappings. You may store it, query it and build products on it for the term of your plan. You may not resell the index itself as a competing dataset or dump it in bulk.

This page is a plain-language summary and is not the contract. The signed terms govern.

Metadata only. Playback runs on YouTube, through your own embed.