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Cuescribe

YouTube transcript and creator tools · cuescribe.app

ChatGPT sends Cuescribe 79% of its visitors. Our API check found it named in 0 of 32 answers.

Same founder as Forthsay. Every number here comes from Cuescribe’s own records, or from our check on 7 Nov through each engine’s official API. A record of what happened, not proof of why.

79%
of first visits came from chatgpt.com, 2 Oct to 31 Oct
632
pages opened inside ChatGPT chats in one week (18–25 Oct), each IP-checked
0 of 32
API answers named it on 7 Nov, on all four engines
$9
the old price ChatGPT still quoted on 25 Oct, nine days after it changed

1 · What its own records show

Where its visitors came from

chatgpt.com: 2,146 of 2,732 first visitsdirect: 474 of 2,732 first visitsgoogle.com, bing.com, other: 112 of 2,732 first visits

First visits, 2 Oct to 31 Oct

2,732 visitors. claude.ai sent one visitor ever, on 23 Oct.

  • 79%chatgpt.com 2,146
  • 17%direct 474
  • 4%google.com 71 · bing.com 15 · other 26
  1. 12 OctSet upDomain live. Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools verified in DNS, sitemap sent, IndexNow took 45 pages.
  2. 14 OctFirst ChatGPT readsChatGPT starts opening its pages to answer people’s questions, mostly about YouTube transcripts.
  3. 15 OctWhole-site crawlOpenAI’s search crawler reads the whole site: 131 fetches in a day.
  4. 18–25 Oct632 live readsPages opened inside ChatGPT chats, 55 to 98 a day, each checked against OpenAI’s published IP list.
  5. End Oct79% from ChatGPTAbout 209 visitors a day from chatgpt.com before the 30 Oct update, 79% of all visitors.
  6. 16–25 OctAn old price lived onThe price changed on 16 Oct, but one hand-typed page description kept the old $9 a month until 20 Oct. On 25 Oct ChatGPT still quoted $9 from a search copy no crawler had refreshed.

2 · What four engines said, 7 Nov

32 answers, every one kept

The four questions are the ones its visitors’ pages answer, asked the generic way. No engine named, recommended or linked Cuescribe in any of them.

QuestionChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexity
1How do I get the transcript of a YouTube video for free?ChatGPT, run 1: not namedChatGPT, run 2: not namedClaude, run 1: not namedClaude, run 2: not namedGemini, run 1: not namedGemini, run 2: not namedPerplexity, run 1: not namedPerplexity, run 2: not named
2What is the best free YouTube transcript generator?ChatGPT, run 1: not namedChatGPT, run 2: not namedClaude, run 1: not namedClaude, run 2: not namedGemini, run 1: not namedGemini, run 2: not namedPerplexity, run 1: not namedPerplexity, run 2: not named
3How can I get a transcript of a TikTok video?ChatGPT, run 1: not namedChatGPT, run 2: not namedClaude, run 1: not namedClaude, run 2: not namedGemini, run 1: not namedGemini, run 2: not namedPerplexity, run 1: not namedPerplexity, run 2: not named
4How do I download the subtitles of a YouTube video as a text file?ChatGPT, run 1: not namedChatGPT, run 2: not namedClaude, run 1: not namedClaude, run 2: not namedGemini, run 1: not namedGemini, run 2: not namedPerplexity, run 1: not namedPerplexity, run 2: not named

Why the API misses it. Likely reasons, none proven

  • People ask the ChatGPT app to do the job with a real video link, and the app opens a tool page live: the 632 reads. Through the API the same model declines (“I can’t provide the full transcript”).
  • The app’s search and ranking are not the API’s web search tool.
  • We see the pages ChatGPT sends people to, never the words they typed.

Asked through each vendor’s official API with its web search tool on: 4 questions, 4 engines, 2 runs each, on 7 Nov 2026. Eight answers per engine give wide ranges, so this is one day’s reading, not a rank. How each answer is graded.

3 · What a plan would do for Cuescribe

Watch what the API shows, and what only the app shows

  1. 01

    Your own chats

    Answers from the app, kept beside the numbers

    Cuescribe’s visitors come from the ChatGPT app. Through the API the same model declines to make transcripts: we also asked 3 do-style questions with real video links, and 0 of 10 measured answers named it. Paste chats from your own app and they are graded by the same rules, shown apart, and never counted in a share.

  2. 02

    Crawler reads

    Count the live reads you can prove

    In 18–25 Oct, ChatGPT opened Cuescribe pages inside chats 632 times, 55 to 98 a day, each checked against OpenAI’s published IP list. For a site like this, the live reads are the number to watch. The free crawler log verifier does the same IP check on your own logs.

    Check your crawler log
  3. 03

    Claims

    The old price, caught

    The price changed on 16 Oct, but one hand-typed page description kept the old $9 a month until 20 Oct. On 25 Oct ChatGPT still quoted $9 from a search copy no crawler had refreshed. With a facts file, an answer that quotes a price you no longer charge is flagged with the sentence and the source.

    Build a facts file
  4. 04

    Rivals

    Who the engines cite instead

    support.google.com in 6 of 8 ChatGPT answers, notegpt.io in 6 of 8 Gemini answers, riverside.com in 6 of 8 Perplexity answers, eden.so in 3 of 8 Claude answers. Track the tools among them as rivals and see where they are named and you are not.

  5. 05

    Search setup

    Both search consoles, checked

    Cuescribe had Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools on 12 Oct, and ChatGPT opened its pages from 14 Oct. Every report checks for public signs of both, and the free search setup check says what to do when one is missing.

    Check your search setup

Run the same check on your site

Free: 32 answers from 4 engines, the same grid as above. No card, just a free account.