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About GistCite
GistCite turns videos, podcasts and recordings, documents and web pages into transcripts, clean text and AI summaries that cite the exact second or page they came from — to copy, question, draft from, download or call from an API. It is built for independent professionals, content creators, marketers, researchers and developers who work across all of those sources and want one tool, one account and one quota.
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What we are
GistCite is a content extraction and ai research toolkit: one product that gets the substance out of long sources and turns it into work you can hand over. The category is explained on what is a content extraction toolkit.
GistCite was called TranscriptFetch (transcriptfetch.ai) until September 2026. It is the same product from the same team under a new name, not a layer on top of someone else's service: the extraction, the API and the apps are one codebase that we run ourselves. API keys that begin tf_live_ still work, and support mail is still answered at the transcriptfetch.ai address. GistCite has no connection with transcriptfetch.com, a separate transcript API run by a different company.
An independent product, built and operated by a small team. We publish what the product runs on, what each action costs and which audits we have not done, because a tool people put their research through should be checkable.
Who we serve
- Independent professionals and consultants
- Content creators and podcasters
- Marketers and social media analysts
- Researchers and students
- Developers and AI builders
What it is built on
youtube-transcript-api and yt-dlp
YouTube caption retrieval
Docling and pypdf
Document extraction and layout-aware Markdown
OpenAI Whisper
Audio and video transcription
Claude by Anthropic
Summaries, Ask This Source, Create From Source
Playwright
Browser rendering for web extraction
Stripe
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How we work
- Files are processed in memory and never stored; only extracted text is kept, and you can delete it.
- The cost of every action is shown before it runs, a failed request is never charged, and top-up units never expire.
- Every summary point and answer links to the second or page it came from, so it can be checked.
- Security claims say what has and has not been audited.
- The web app and the API are the same product with the same quota.
- No advertising, no tracking pixels, no third-party cookies.
Reach us
Support, billing, privacy, security reports and partnerships all go to support@transcriptfetch.ai, or use the forms on the contact page. The security page and the privacy policy cover data handling.
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