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CorpusSync: any YouTube channel into free local search

Turn a YouTube channel into a searchable corpus for free: yt-dlp captions, de-duplicated VTT, local Ollama embeddings into Qdrant, hash-skip re-runs.

by Lucas Cooper-Bey

About it

Give CorpusSync a channel. It pulls captions with yt-dlp, cleans and de-duplicates the VTT, embeds with a local Ollama model and stores it in Qdrant, so you can search what a channel said instead of re-watching it. Re-runs skip what has not changed. Limits: Needs captions to exist on the videos. A remote Ollama or Qdrant endpoint sends the text off your machine; a large channel takes hours on a laptop. Door 16 of 100 Doors.