AI article
Scraping YouTube transcripts at scale for RAG (and the 3 things that break it)
Community description: If you are building a RAG or agent pipeline over video, the transcript is the payload. Titles and...
Dev.to | Sep 28, 2026 | Eric Z. Casaucao
Automated excerpt
The bad news is that pulling captions for videos you do not own, at batch scale, is where most naive pipelines fall over. Batch extraction is metered per event rather than per compute minute. As of writing the Actor bills $3 per 1,000 transcripts plus $0. 50 per 1,000 metadata-enriched videos, and failed videos or videos without captions are not charged.
Selected automatically from source text; not independently written or fact-checked. Read the original for full context.