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Scraping YouTube transcripts at scale for RAG (and the 3 things that break it)

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If you are building a RAG or agent pipeline over video, the transcript is the payload. Titles and descriptions are thin; a 40-minute talk is thousands of tokens of dense, quotable prose. The good news is that YouTube already exposes that prose as captions. The bad news is that pulling captions for…

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  1. 2026-09-28 07:23 · DEV Community — AI
    Scraping YouTube transcripts at scale for RAG (and the 3 things that break it)

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