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Guides, tutorials, and tips on YouTube transcripts, captions, and the transcript API.
Building an Accessibility Captioning Workflow
Build WCAG-compliant captions: pull timed YouTube transcripts via API, generate SRT and VTT files in 125+ languages, review, and deliver to any video player.
Zied · 7/13/2026 · 9 min read
Caching YouTube Transcripts to Cut API Costs
Learn how to cache YouTube transcript API responses in Python to reduce credit usage by 70-90%, with TTL strategies, cache key design, and invalidation patterns.
Zied · 7/12/2026 · 9 min read
Mining Video at Scale: A Guide for Researchers
Extract bulk YouTube transcripts from 800M+ videos for research. Ethical collection, reproducible data structures, multilingual corpora, and citation best practices.
Zied · 7/11/2026 · 8 min read
How Indie Hackers Ship a YouTube SaaS in a Weekend
A practical guide for indie hackers building YouTube-powered SaaS products fast—picking a niche, wiring transcripts, managing costs, and launching in 48 hours.
Zied · 7/10/2026 · 8 min read
Search YouTube Programmatically with a Single API
Learn how to search YouTube via API, chain results to transcript fetching, paginate through results, and build robust content ingestion pipelines.
Zied · 7/9/2026 · 7 min read
Generate SRT and VTT Subtitles from YouTube Videos
Convert YouTube transcript JSON into SRT and VTT subtitle files with Python and JavaScript. Includes timing format gotchas, line-length rules, and accessibility best practices.
Zied · 7/8/2026 · 10 min read
Understanding YouTube Transcript Rate Limits
What causes YouTube transcript rate limits, how a managed API absorbs them, and how to design retry logic with exponential backoff that never wastes a credit.
Zied · 7/7/2026 · 9 min read
5 OSS YouTube Transcript Libraries and Their Limits
Compare the top open-source YouTube transcript libraries—youtube-transcript-api, yt-dlp, pytube, and more—plus when to switch to a managed API.
Zied · 7/7/2026 · 7 min read
Pull YouTube Playlist Data via API: Full Walkthrough
Learn how to fetch YouTube playlist items, paginate results, pull transcripts, and build an ETL pipeline—with working curl, Python, and Node.js examples.
Zied · 7/5/2026 · 8 min read
Build a RAG Pipeline on YouTube Transcripts
Learn how to build a RAG pipeline on YouTube transcripts—fetch, chunk, embed, and retrieve video content with timestamp citations using a transcript API.
Zied · 7/4/2026 · 8 min read
Get YouTube Transcripts Without an API Key: Myths vs Reality
YouTube transcripts work without an API key—until cloud IPs get blocked. Why DIY scraping breaks in production and when a managed API makes more sense.
Zied · 7/3/2026 · 7 min read
No-Code YouTube Transcript Automation with Make and n8n
Build YouTube transcript workflows in Make or n8n without writing code. Fetch transcripts via API, summarize with AI, and save to Google Docs.
Zied · 7/2/2026 · 9 min read