# Changelog of Podcast & Video Transcriber for AI — RAG-ready Text (`tiger19935/podcast-video-transcriber-rag`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tiger19935/podcast-video-transcriber-rag/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/tiger19935/podcast-video-transcriber-rag.md

## Changelog

### 1.0.0 - 2026-10-06

First release.

- Transcribes podcast RSS feeds (also very large feeds, streamed), Apple Podcasts show links, direct audio/video files and TikTok, X, Vimeo, Loom and Twitch videos (via yt-dlp, best effort).
- YouTube: existing captions only; media is never downloaded (also when a web page embeds a YouTube player). Playlists, channel / profile pages and multi-video posts are skipped (`unsupported_url`).
- Speech-to-text through Cloudflare Workers AI (Whisper large-v3-turbo) with automatic fall-back to Groq and OpenAI; optional own provider key (billed as `audio-minute-byok`).
- Timestamped segments, optional SRT / WebVTT, and a RAG pack (time-coded chunks, chapters, summary).
- "Only new episodes" monitoring with a named key-value store per set of feeds; "Published after"; chaining from another dataset.
- Pay-per-event charging with budget checks before every download; failures, silence and skipped items are never charged; safe against platform restarts.
- Apify Proxy fallback for blocked video sites.