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Very useful, thanks. So does this mean that every month or so you have to create a new 'clean' YouTube account and use that to create new po_token/cookies?

It's frustrating to have to jump through all these hoops just to extract transcripts when the YouTube Data API already gives reasonable limits to free API calls ... would be nice if they allowed transcripts too.

Do you think the various YouTube transcript extractor services all follow a similar method as yours?



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