Transcript via transcriptapi.com (no proxy) as primary; youtube-transcript-api fallback

app.py

@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ def check_access():
     proxy = _resolve_proxy()
     proxies = {"http": proxy, "https": proxy} if proxy else None
     lines = [
+        f"- **Transcript API** (`TRANSCRIPTAPI_KEY`, no proxy needed): "
+        f"{'set ✅' if os.environ.get('TRANSCRIPTAPI_KEY') else 'not set ⚪ (falls back to youtube-transcript-api via YT_PROXY)'}",
         f"- **Proxy** (`YT_PROXY`): {'set ✅' if proxy else 'not set ⚪'}",
         f"- **Media proxy** (`YT_MEDIA_PROXY`, screenshots): "
         f"{'set ✅' if _resolve_media_proxy() else 'not set ⚪ (falls back to YT_PROXY)'}",
@@ -267,9 +269,11 @@ def run_pipeline(topic, hf_token, yt_api_key, llm_model, vlm_model,
         yield (status(f"🏆 Picked **{best.get('title', best['video_id'])}** {picked_msg}."),
                ranking, gr.update(), gr.update())
 
-        # 3. Transcript (youtube-transcript-api) -------------------------------------
+        # 3. Transcript (transcriptapi.com primary, youtube-transcript-api fallback) --
         progress(0.3, desc="Transcript")
-        yield status("📝 Fetching the timestamped transcript…"), ranking, gr.update(), gr.update()
+        tsrc = ("transcriptapi.com (no proxy)" if os.environ.get("TRANSCRIPTAPI_KEY")
+                else "youtube-transcript-api via proxy")
+        yield status(f"📝 Fetching the timestamped transcript — {tsrc}…"), ranking, gr.update(), gr.update()
         segs = transcribe_mod.get_segments(best["video_id"], proxy=proxy)
         transcript = transcribe_mod.transcript_text(segs)
         yield (status(f"Transcript ready ({len(segs)} segments)."),