YouTube transcript reliability, measured in public.

The September 3, 2026 production run covers 200 public videos selected for caption metadata. It measures HTTP response success with shared cache enabled. It does not measure arbitrary-video coverage or transcript accuracy.

Observed HTTP success100%
Public fixtures200
p95 latency3.23 s

Production results

Run on 3 September 2026 with deployment 6ead6a6. Generated work is covered by separate end-to-end fixtures.

Native API responses

Every versioned public fixture returned a timestamped native transcript in production.

200 / 200

Observed latency

The run mixed shared-cache responses with uncached extraction at three concurrent workers.

p95 3.23 s

Generated transcript

A captionless public fixture completed through download, processing and persistence.

Passed

Native isolation

Native extraction remained available while the generated worker was active.

Passed

Reproduce the method.

The methodology defines the video categories, cache rules, latency measurement and exclusions. The current aggregate result is available without republishing transcript content.

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