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Building Training Data at Scale Without Hitting YouTube's Silent Wall

YouTube's silent wall is a familiar frustration for anyone building training data at scale. The empty 200 responses, the proxy roulette, the 2am batch failures: it's a cat-and-mouse game that has nothing to do with your project. You're right to ask what actually works past a few hundred requests. The honest answer is that most people land on paid services or accept the failure rate and build retry logic. It's not elegant, but it's practical.