YouTube playlist to transcripts (for RAG)
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Turn a whole YouTube playlist into transcripts: one row per video, in each video's spoken language, with timestamps and ~300-word chunks ready to embed for RAG or a knowledge base. Up to 1,000 videos per playlist. $2 per 1,000 transcripts; videos without captions are free.
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