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Hey everyone,

I'm building an AI fact-checking pipeline to verify video claims.
The logic is solid, but the Web Search/Extraction layer is a nightmare. Here is our experience so far:

• Tavily: Perfect high-tier sources, but way too expensive at scale.
• Exa.ai: Fast, but their neural search pulls too many low-tier blogs/forums instead of authoritative news, even with strict prompting.
• Jina API: Cheap and good markdown, but rate-limits instantly on parallel queries. Payloads are also chaotic (burns millions of tokens on massive PDFs, or returns zero content).

The Goal: We need an API that guarantees top-tier domains (Reuters, Gov, AP), extracts clean text/markdown, handles async concurrency, and doesn't break the bank.

Currently considering the Perplexity Search API or a DIY Brave Search + Firecrawl stack.

Has anyone built a high-volume RAG pipeline recently? What is the golden stack for Web Search right now?

Thanks

I currently have a student account with free credits, but I can't create a "Basic - Premium AMD" droplet.

• Will adding manual funds unlock this?
• Do I need to upgrade to Tier 2?
• Or are Premium AMD droplets completely restricted for student accounts?

Thanks

Hey everyone, I’m building a backend that analyzes long YouTube videos using an LLM.

Currently, my flow is a slow waterfall: Download full audio -> Whisper -> LLM -> Return results. For a 30-minute video, the user waits forever.

I want to pipeline this for real-time SSE streaming: [Chunk Audio on the fly] -> [Whisper] -> [LLM] -> [Stream to UI]

My questions for the data/backend engineers:

1. Chunking & VAD: What's the best way to chunk YouTube audio streams (e.g., via ffmpeg) without cutting sentences in half and ruining the LLM's context?
2. Queueing: Is standard asyncio in FastAPI enough to handle these overlapping tasks, or do I strictly need Celery/Redis workers for this pipeline?

Any library recommendations or architectural patterns would be hugely appreciated

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I need to extract video metadata and transcripts from YouTube, Instagram Reels, and TikTok.

Most "all-in-one" APIs are brittle and fail when native captions are missing. Running yt-dlp locally leads to instant 403/IP bans on Meta platforms, and enterprise solutions like Apify are too costly for this stage.

I have a local Whisper pipeline ready but need a stable fetcher for raw media links (.mp4/.mp3) that handles IG/TikTok without blocks. I am looking for a pay-as-you-go solution stable for non-English content.

How are you handling multi-platform video data in 2026. Is there a "Goldilocks" API available, or is a custom proxy wrapper the only real way to survive.

I need to extract video metadata and transcripts from YouTube, Instagram Reels, and TikTok.

Most "all-in-one" APIs are brittle and fail when native captions are missing. Running yt-dlp locally leads to instant 403/IP bans on Meta platforms, and enterprise solutions like Apify are too costly for this stage.

I have a local Whisper pipeline ready but need a stable fetcher for raw media links (.mp4/.mp3) that handles IG/TikTok without blocks. I am looking for a pay-as-you-go solution stable for non-English content.

How are you handling multi-platform video data in 2026. Is there a "Goldilocks" API available, or is a custom proxy wrapper the only real way to survive.

Hey everyone,

I'm currently building an AI-powered app (Flutter frontend + Python/FastAPI backend). Right now, the app successfully analyzes long-form YouTube videos by fetching their transcripts and running them through an LLM pipeline.

However, I want to expand the app to support short-form content (TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts) where captions aren't always reliably available via APIs.

The desired workflow:

1. User pastes a TikTok or IG Reel URL into the app.
2. The backend downloads/extracts only the audio (e.g., MP3/M4A) from that URL.
3. The backend runs the audio through a Speech-to-Text model (like Whisper) to get the transcript.
4. The transcript is fed into my existing LLM pipeline.

My questions for the community:

1. Extraction: I know IG and TikTok are notoriously aggressive against scraping. Is yt-dlp still the most reliable tool for extracting audio from these platforms in a production backend, or are there better alternatives/APIs?
2. Transcription: For the STT part, is it better (cost/speed-wise) to use OpenAI's Whisper API directly, or host a smaller Whisper model locally on my server (e.g., using faster-whisper) since these are just 15-60 second clips?
3. Infrastructure: Any tips on handling the temporary audio files? Should I process this entirely in memory (RAM), or save to /tmp and delete after transcription?

Any advice, libraries, or architectural tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!