YouTube Transcripts for LLM & RAG Pipelines
Turn a list of YouTube links into de-duplicated transcript text plus timestamped segments, ready to chunk and embed. It reads the captions YouTube already has; it does not transcribe audio, so videos without captions return an explanation row and no charge.
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