Been scraping YouTube transcripts for LLM pipelines and kept hitting the same wall: rate limits, broken proxies, captcha blocks. Started using youtubetranscript.us a few weeks ago. Clean REST API, handles the proxy rotation and retries on their end. Pricing is straightforward — $9 for 500 requests, $29 for 5k, $79 for 25k. No infrastructure to babysit. Use cases I've run through it: feeding video content into RAG pipelines, indexing podcasts uploaded to YouTube, pulling research notes from long-form interviews. Anything where you need the text fast without building a scraper. If you're doin…

pointed spidergpt.com at a competitor's pricing page and asked "what's included in their pro tier" — got a cited answer in seconds. did the same for our docs site to audit gaps. beats ctrl+F on 40 tabs.