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by Terr_ 3531 days ago
From the "department of trying way too hard", I'd like to mention that you can pull subtitle information and often massage that into a transcript, either with the DOM [0] or by looking at the traffic and downloading it. [1] However, in this case those are subtitles from speech-recognition, so it's only really useful for skimming broadly.

Pasting the whole thing would probably not be useful, but here's a sample from the downloaded XML:

> if you think about it like tiny components one of the best things about say a tiny method when you look at a tiny micro service is it allows you to consider replacing it but you can change it you can understand it really quickly but even if you can't if it's small enough and it's named well enough and it's decoupled well enough microservices tend to be you can throw it away and just restart if you have to

[0] Example: https://gist.github.com/DHager/2e01f0b82e5d3f5a39e6

[1] Look for accesses of https://www.youtube.com/api/timedtext