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iPhone 14 Pro Review: This Will Be Copied!
Marques Brownlee
What the creator says
“will be one of the most copied features”
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What viewers say back
“just another one of the small marketing schemes that Apple does that works so well”
32K likes · 498 replies
A reply
“the main idea is the software-hardware integration, not the pill shaped camera”
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“will be one of the most copied features”
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“just another one of the small marketing schemes that Apple does that works so well”
“the main idea is the software-hardware integration, not the pill shaped camera”
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“will be one of the most copied features”
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| Comment | Likes | Replies |
|---|---|---|
| just another one of the small marketing schemes that Apple does that works so well | 32K | 498 |
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YouTube Video Transcript retrieves existing caption tracks; it does not transcribe audio from scratch. Accuracy depends on the manual or automatic captions YouTube supplies. If no transcript can be fetched, you are not charged for it; bulk jobs refund that reservation. You can still collect comments separately when comments are available.
Website jobs support up to 5,000 videos. Channel collections cover long-form uploads, not Shorts. Transcript jobs must fit your available credits; comments collections stop at the credit limit you set. Bulk transcript jobs created through the API or MCP require a paid plan and have separate per-plan limits.
Replies are optional: turn on Include replies to collect them alongside the top-level comments. All available means continuing through the comments YouTube makes available until the collection finishes or your credit limit is reached. Reply pages use the same budget. If the limit is reached first, the results collected so far are saved.
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Transcripts export as TXT, SRT, JSON, CSV, or Markdown in the website; DOCX is also available through the API. Bulk transcript downloads bundle the files into a ZIP, with optional comment samples as separate JSON files. Standalone comments collections include JSON and CSV in one ZIP. The comments preview beside a single transcript downloads as TXT.
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