AircoAlert's answer

AircoAlert focuses specifically on tracking Midea PortaSplit availability across selected retailers. It brings stock information into one dashboard and can send email alerts when availability is detected. This saves users from checking several retailer websites manually.

TranscriptFetch's answer:

Most short-form video has no caption track to download. TikTok’s auto-captions are opt-in per upload, Instagram never publishes a downloadable track, and many captions on both are burned into the video frames where no parser can read them. TranscriptFetch transcribes the audio when no caption track exists, on the same endpoint, with the same response shape. Your code never branches on which method produced the text. It also covers YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X and Facebook plus any web page as clean Markdown, so a pipeline spanning several sources is one integration rather than five.

AircoAlert's answer

AircoAlert is simple and focused. Users can check the latest Midea PortaSplit stock in one place and receive alerts with a direct retailer link. It is designed for this specific product instead of offering a complex general monitoring system.

TranscriptFetch's answer:

Three reasons. Coverage: one API key and one response shape across five video platforms and the open web, instead of stitching together a library per platform. Reliability: requests run through rotating infrastructure, so code that works locally keeps working from a server, which is where most open-source approaches break. Billing that matches reality: one credit per successful response, with failed, blocked and empty results never charged. That last point matters on short-form video, where a meaningful share of any batch is music with no speech in it. There is also an MCP server, so AI agents can fetch transcripts as a tool without a custom integration.

AircoAlert's answer

AircoAlert is for individuals and households looking to buy a Midea PortaSplit. It is especially useful for shoppers who want to find stock quickly without repeatedly checking multiple retailer websites.

TranscriptFetch's answer:

Developers and technical teams building on video and web content. The common cases are RAG and retrieval pipelines that need video as text, AI agents that need to read a link mid-conversation, content teams repurposing short-form video at scale, and media monitoring and research tools. It is an API first, so the buyer is usually the person writing the integration rather than an end user. The free browser tools exist for one-off transcripts and for evaluating output quality before writing any code.

AircoAlert's answer

AircoAlert was created because the Midea PortaSplit can be difficult to find when demand is high. Checking different retailer websites throughout the day takes time. AircoAlert was built to automate this process and help users know when stock becomes available.

TranscriptFetch's answer:

It started with discovering there is no good way to get the text of a video. YouTube’s official Data API will confirm a caption track exists and then refuse to hand it over, because captions.download requires the video owner’s OAuth token. The popular open-source libraries work until you deploy them, at which point platforms start refusing datacenter IPs. And YouTube is the easy case: TikTok and Instagram publish no caption file at all. Every workaround solved one platform, worked locally, and broke in production. TranscriptFetch is the version that handles the failure cases as first-class behaviour rather than edge cases.

AircoAlert's answer

AircoAlert uses automated retailer monitoring, stock data processing, a web based availability dashboard and email notification technology. The exact programming languages and frameworks have not been publicly confirmed.

TranscriptFetch's answer:

Next.js with TypeScript and Tailwind on the front end and API layer, Clerk for auth with SHA-256 hashed API keys, Neon Postgres with Drizzle ORM, Redis for caching, and Stripe for billing. The extraction layer is a Python and FastAPI service. Speech-to-text uses Whisper-class models. The MCP server is published in the official Model Context Protocol registry with a DNS-verified namespace.

AircoAlert's answer

AircoAlert is mainly used by individual shoppers looking for the Midea PortaSplit.