Ask HN: How are you getting YouTube transcripts at scale?

Been building a pipeline that feeds YouTube videos into an LLM for research notes and podcast indexing. YouTube's transcript API works fine until it doesn't — rate limits, IP blocks, captchas, silent failures on certain video types. Tried a few workarounds before finding youtubetranscript.us. Simple REST API, handles the proxy rotation and retry logic I didn't want to maintain. Pricing is straightforward: $9 for 500 requests, $29 for 5k, $79 for 25k. No subscriptions. For anyone doing similar work — feeding transcripts into RAG pipelines, building search indexes over video content, or just a…