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Tutorials, updates, and deep dives on building with FetchAPI.

October 11, 2026

Turn YouTube Videos Into Blog Posts, Newsletters, and Social Threads with the Transcript API

Build a content-repurposing pipeline that turns any YouTube video into written assets. Fetch SEO front-matter with /v1/info and timestamped captions with /v1/transcript, clean YouTube's rolling auto-caption overlaps, chunk to a token budget, and prompt an LLM for a blog post, a newsletter blurb, and a social thread — with deep links back to the exact moment in the video. Includes curl and Python examples plus production tips for caching and batching.

YouTube Transcript APIContent MarketingLLMAutomationTutorial
October 4, 2026

Give Your LLM Agent Web Superpowers with FetchAPI Function Calling

Turn the four FetchAPI endpoints into native agent tools with OpenAI-style function calling. Covers tool schemas for the YouTube Transcript API, Markdownify, OGSnap, and Video Info, a Python dispatch layer, the complete function-calling loop, a link-triage workflow that calls cheap tools before expensive ones, and production tips for caching and token budgets. Includes curl and Python examples.

AI AgentsFunction CallingLLMTutorial
September 27, 2026

Compare Web Pages Automatically with DiffCheck: Build a Content Regression Pipeline

Automate web-page comparison with the DiffCheck diff API and Markdownify. Build CI content-regression checks (staging vs production), scheduled drift monitoring that diffs against the last snapshot, and an AI-agent workflow that only re-reads pages that actually changed. Includes curl, Python, bash, and GitHub Actions examples.

DiffCheckContent MonitoringCI/CDWeb ScrapingTutorial
September 20, 2026

Open Graph Metadata for SEO: How OGSnap Helps You Audit and Fix Social Cards at Scale

Audit Open Graph metadata across an entire site with the OGSnap API. Covers the tags that drive share click-through (og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url), a bash and Python site-wide auditor you can wire into CI, fixes for the most common social-card failures, competitor and structured-data (JSON-LD) intelligence, and production best practices. Includes curl and Python examples.

OGSnapOpen GraphSEOStructured DataTutorial
September 13, 2026

Scrape Any Website with the Markdownify API: A Practical Tutorial

Turn any URL into clean markdown for your scraping pipeline with one GET request. Covers the JSON response shape, sitemap and link-harvesting discovery, a concurrent Python crawler with caching and retries, handling JS-rendered and blocked pages, heading-based chunking for RAG, and a comparison of scraping approaches. Includes curl and Python examples.

MarkdownifyWeb ScrapingCrawlingTutorial
September 6, 2026

YouTube Data Extraction Tutorial for Data Scientists: Build Datasets from Video Transcripts & Metadata

Turn any YouTube video into an analysis-ready dataset with two API calls: /v1/info for metadata and /v1/transcript for timestamped captions. Covers building a tidy pandas/Parquet corpus, scaling to hundreds of videos with caching and retries, and research use cases from topic modeling and clickbait detection to popularity forecasting. Includes curl and Python examples.

YouTube Transcript APIVideo InfoData ScienceDatasetsTutorial
August 30, 2026

Auto-Generate Link Previews with the OGSnap API: A Developer's Guide

Generate rich link preview cards for any URL with the OGSnap Open Graph API. Covers rendering previews in your app, building Slack and Discord unfurl bots, giving AI agents a link-triage tool that pairs with Markdownify, and auditing SEO social cards in a cron job. Includes curl, bash, and Python examples.

OGSnapOpen GraphLink PreviewsAI AgentsTutorial
August 23, 2026

Markdownify API Best Practices for LLM Content Extraction: A Practical Guide

Production best practices for turning any URL into clean markdown for LLM pipelines: 10x token savings over raw HTML, token budgeting with word_count, heading-aware chunking, caching by URL, pairing Markdownify with OGSnap for link previews, routing YouTube URLs to the Transcript API, and a copy-paste "read this page" agent tool. Includes curl and Python examples.

MarkdownifyLLMContent ExtractionRAGTutorial
August 16, 2026

Monitor Competitor Pricing Changes with DiffCheck: A Practical Guide

Build an automated competitor price-monitoring pipeline with the DiffCheck web-page diff API and Markdownify. Covers baseline capture, scheduled polling, structured diff parsing, Slack and AI-agent alerting, and a copy-paste 10-minute cron setup. Includes curl, bash, and Python examples.

DiffCheckPrice MonitoringWeb ScrapingTutorial
August 2, 2026

Build a RAG Pipeline with the YouTube Transcript API: Turn Videos Into Queryable Knowledge

Step-by-step guide to building a production RAG pipeline on video content — fetch timestamped transcripts with one API call, chunk on segment boundaries, embed, index, and answer questions with timestamped citations. Includes curl and Python examples plus production tips for caching, playlists, and reranking.

YouTube Transcript APIRAGLLMTutorial
June 7, 2026

YouTube Transcript API vs Whisper vs Other Tools: A Developer's Guide to Video Transcription in 2026

Benchmark the top video transcription tools — FetchAPI Transcript API, OpenAI Whisper, YouTube Data API, AssemblyAI, and custom pipelines — with latency, cost, and accuracy comparisons. Includes curl and Python code examples, a decision matrix, and a hybrid fallback pattern for 100% coverage.

YouTube Transcript APIWhisperComparisonTutorial
May 28, 2026

How to Use the YouTube Transcript API: A Complete Guide for AI Agents

Learn how to extract clean, timestamped transcripts from any YouTube video using the FetchAPI YouTube Transcript API. Perfect for LLM training data, content analysis, and AI agents that need to process video content.

YouTube Transcript APIAI AgentsTutorial
May 25, 2026

URL to Markdown API: Clean Web Content Extraction

Turn any webpage into clean, readable markdown with our URL to Markdown API. Strips ads, popups, navigation, and cookie banners — just the content your LLM or agent needs.

Markdown APIWeb ScrapingLLM
May 20, 2026

OGSnap: Extract Open Graph Metadata from Any URL

OGSnap extracts Open Graph tags, Twitter Cards, and JSON-LD structured data from any URL. Perfect for link previews, social media monitoring, and content intelligence.

OGSnapOpen GraphMetadata
May 15, 2026

Introducing the FetchAPI MCP Server for AI Agents

FetchAPI now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), making it easy for AI agents like Claude Desktop and Hermes to discover and use all our APIs as native tools. One MCP server, four tools.

MCPAI AgentsClaudeHermes
May 10, 2026

DiffCheck: Monitor Web Pages for Content Changes

Coming soon — DiffCheck is a web monitoring API that tracks any URL for content changes and alerts you when something updates. Perfect for price monitoring, news alerts, and agent-driven workflows.

DiffCheckComing SoonWeb Monitoring
May 5, 2026

Getting Started with FetchAPI: Your First API Call

Everything you need to start using FetchAPI in 5 minutes. No signup required for the free tier. Try the YouTube Transcript API, Markdownify, and OGSnap right now with curl.

Getting StartedAPIFree Tier
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