Kling AI Known Pitfalls

Overview

Documented mistakes, gotchas, and anti-patterns from real Kling AI integrations. Each pitfall includes the symptom, root cause, and tested fix.

Pitfall 1: Duration as Integer

Symptom: 400 Bad Request on valid-looking requests.

# WRONG -- duration as integer
{"duration": 5}

# CORRECT -- duration as string
{"duration": "5"}

The API requires duration as a string "5" or "10", not an integer.