youtube-maintenance-status.md

Talk Python YouTube Maintenance Status

This is the living tracker for Talk Python episode metadata and transcript maintenance. Update it after each episode is processed or a replacement transcript is added.

Episodes 440–449 work log

• 440 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 441 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 442 — title updated; description updated; no managed transcript; existing captions unchanged; verified
• 443 — blocked: authoritative description contains forbidden < and > characters; no YouTube writes
• 444 — replacement needed: 444-young-success-blueprint.vtt cue 1125 has a non-positive duration
• 445 — no mapped YouTube video
• 446 — no mapped YouTube video
• 447 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 448 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 449 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified; later no-op observer reconciled

Episodes 450–459 work log

• 450 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 451 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 452 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 453 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 454 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 455 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 456 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 457 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 458 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 459 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified

Episodes 460–480 work log

• 460 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 461 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 462 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 463 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 464 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 465 — title unchanged; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 466 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 467 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 468 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 469 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 470 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 471 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 472 — blocked: authoritative podcast description contains a forbidden < character; no YouTube writes
• 473 — replacement needed: 473-adhd-devs.vtt cue 809 has a non-positive duration
• 474 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 475 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 476 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 477 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 478 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 479 — title updated; description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified
• 480 — title and description updated; existing manual English subtitles preserved; verified

Completed and verified

• Episodes 440–449 processed where valid

  • Completed and verified: 440–442, 447–449
  • Titles and descriptions updated: all 6 completed episodes
  • Existing manual English subtitles preserved: 440–441, 447–449
  • Metadata-only because no managed transcript exists: 442
  • Blocked or unmapped: 443–446

• Episodes 450–459 fully processed

  • Titles updated: 450–459
  • Descriptions updated: 450–459
  • Existing manual English subtitles preserved for all 10 episodes
  • No blocked episodes

• Episodes 460–480 processed where valid

  • Completed and verified: 460–471, 474–480
  • Titles updated: 460–464, 466–471, 474–480
  • Descriptions updated: all 19 completed episodes
  • Existing manual English subtitles preserved for all 19 completed episodes
  • Blocked: 472 canonical description and 473 malformed transcript

• Episodes 520–529 fully processed

  • Title updated: 521
  • Descriptions updated: 520–526
  • Already matched: 527–529

• Episodes 500–519 processed where valid

  • Descriptions updated: 501–503, 505, 507–519
  • Titles already matched for all 17 completed episodes
  • Episode 503’s earlier update was verified after the API quota reset

• Episodes 480–499 processed where valid

  • Titles and descriptions updated: 480, 484, 485
  • Description updated, title already matched: 489

• All completed changes passed YouTube API readback and idempotency verification

• All direct writes were correlated with yta’s operation log and backup files

• Existing manual English subtitles were preserved

• No autogenerated subtitle tracks or unmanaged metadata were modified

• No subtitle uploads were required

• No existing YouTube chapter blocks needed preservation

Missing managed transcripts

• Episode 442 needs a raw-recording YouTube VTT; metadata is complete and existing captions were left unchanged

Replacement transcripts needed

Each file below has a cue with a non-positive duration:

• 444-young-success-blueprint.vtt — cue 1125
• 473-adhd-devs.vtt — cue 809
• 481-python-opinions-and-zeitgeist-with-hynek.vtt — cue 2806
• 482-pre-commit-hooks-for-python-devs.vtt — cue 665
• 483-reflex-framework-frontend-backend-pure-python.vtt — cue 961
• 486-csnakes-embed-python-code-in-.net.vtt — cue 593
• 487-building-rust-extensions-for-python.vtt — cue 322
• 488-lancedb.vtt — cue 114
• 491-duckdb-and-python-ducks-and-snakes-living-together.vtt — cue 66
• 492-great-tables.vtt — cue 266
• 493-quarto.vtt — cue 585
• 494-update-on-flet-python-flutter-uis.vtt — cue 171
• 498-high-performance-terminal-apps.vtt — cue 117
• 499-beeware-and-the-state-of-python-on-mobile.vtt — cue 682
• 500-django-simple-deploy-and-other-devops things.vtt — cue 203
• 504-developer-trends.vtt — cue 619
• 506-ty-aka-red-knot-type-checker.vtt — cue 761

Transcript choice or cleanup needed

• Episode 495 has two candidates:

  • 495-osmnx-python-and-openstreetmap-yt.vtt
  • 495-osmnx-python-and-openstreetmap.vtt

• Episode 496 has two candidates:

  • 496-scaf-deploys-yt.vtt
  • 496-scaf-deploys.vtt

Canonical metadata help needed

• Episode 443 authoritative description contains literal < and > characters rejected by YouTube
• Episode 472 authoritative description contains a literal < character rejected by YouTube

YouTube mapping help needed

• Episode 445 has no mapped YouTube video
• Episode 446 has no mapped YouTube video
• Episode 490 has no mapped YouTube video
• Episode 497 has no mapped YouTube video

Next steps

• Replace the malformed transcripts and resolve episodes 495/496
• Create a managed raw-recording VTT for episode 442
• Remove or rewrite forbidden angle brackets in episodes 443 and 472 authoritative descriptions
• Confirm or add YouTube mappings for episodes 445, 446, 490, and 497
• Rerun blocked episodes to update metadata and verify subtitle state