[P] Using YouTube as a data source (lessons from building a coffee domain dataset)
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I started working on a small coffee coaching app recently - something that could answer questions around brew methods, grind size, extraction, etc. I was looking for good data and realized most written sources are either shallow or scattered. YouTube, on the other hand, has insanely high-quality content (James Hoffmann, Lance Hedrick, etc.), but it’s not usable out of the box for RAG. Transcripts are messy, chunking is inconsistent, getting everything into a usable format took way more effort...
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Originally published on March 30, 2026.
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