'downloaded' video locations?

[mattheuswhale]

I just tried importing a url from a youtube video directly, which is great, but I'm not sure where it got downloaded to. when I open the transcription, I can play the audio, so I'm assuming buzz is using yt-dlp or something like it to extract the audio and store it somewhere, but I can't find the file in the appdata directory, nor the download directory. so where are the url-downloaded media and their transcriptions stored?

[Ai-Eastern]

For a URL import, Buzz uses yt-dlp to download the best audio into a newly created system temp folder, then converts it to a WAV in that same folder. So on Windows, open %TEMP% in Explorer and sort the tmp... folders by modification time. The playable audio is the WAV there; it is not saved to Downloads. The original downloaded media file can also be in that folder. I would copy anything you want to keep out of the temp folder, since the OS may eventually clean it.

The transcript text/segments are stored in Buzz's SQLite database, not as an automatically created text file. For the current stable release (v1.4.5), Buzz calls platformdirs.user_data_dir("Buzz") and opens Buzz.sqlite; with the default Windows platformdirs layout that is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Buzz\Buzz\Buzz.sqlite (the repeated Buzz is expected). Buzz also records the WAV's full path in the transcription row, which is why playback works from the app. Use the transcript viewer's Export action if you want a normal text/subtitle file.

I checked the v1.4.5 URL download code, database path, URL path update, and platformdirs' Windows layout. This is source verification; I have not run the Windows GUI for your installation. If your version differs, the temp WAV's filename may differ, but the stored path in Buzz.sqlite is the precise location for that import.