Recipe
How do I get metadata for thousands of YouTube videos without hitting the Data API quota?
YouTube's Data API gives you 10,000 quota units a day, and a video list plus details burns through that fast. These actors read the same public data without a quota and without an API key.
List every video of a channel: id, title, duration, view count, publish date and thumbnail.
$0.35 per 1,000 · Video listedEnrich that list with the full metadata: description, tags, category, exact duration and channel.
$1.50 per 1,000 · Video deliveredAdd the transcripts, with timestamps or as SRT.
$2.50 per 1,000 · Transcript deliveredA channel of 500 videos with details costs about $1.10, transcripts included about $2.30.