Transcript Archive
CLIENT
Transcript Archive
YEAR
2025
INDUSTRY
Content research
SERVICES
AI Systems
Key Highlights
Dozens of hours of video, and no way to search it
Researching how a genre of build-in-public content talks about making and monetising software means watching hours of video. Transcripts let you read and search that material.
It stopped, and the number says how far
Of 175 videos found, 39 transcripts were saved before rate limiting stopped the run. It was never resumed, so most of the catalogue was never collected.
A channel's transcripts, pulled for offline research
A script that lists every video on a channel and downloads each caption transcript to a local file, built against a build-in-public software channel.
In numbers
The project, counted.
175
Videos Found
The full catalogue on the target channel.
39
Transcripts Saved
Each one written to a local file.
3
Blocks
Backed off three times, then abandoned mid-backoff.
