[davidzweig]

The security against downloading audio from YouTube has been upped recently with 'PO tokens'.

Whisper is only a few tenths of a cent per hour transcribed if transcribing on your gpu though, at about 30x real-time on a 3080 etc. with batching.

[swyx]

> The security against downloading audio from YouTube has been upped recently with 'PO tokens'.

do you have a source? more generally is there a community or news source for youtube "api" news like this?

[davidzweig]

I haven't been following closely the last few weeks, but you can check the issues in this repo, for example: https://github.com/distubejs/ytdl-core

[HPsquared]

Tbh I've not had trouble with this for personal use.