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Please provide your Syndicator log every time you encounter an issue.

The reason why no post has been added is fully explained in these two lines of your log:

You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details. For more information on this error, read the docs: Login to see this link.
OpenAI was unable to complete the assignment. The post will not be added

The best way to avoid problems with OpenAI's limits is to use the OpenRouter API instead: https://www.cyberseo.net/blog/openrouter-one-key-to-rule-them-all/

Regarding issues with saving settings: This can happen if you try to save your feed's settings while a script is processing that feed in the background, in a parallel PHP thread. It looks like you clicked "Pull selected feeds now!" and are trying to modify the settings of one of the feeds that is currently being processed. So, based on your initial post, it doesn't look like it's a permanent problem since you have already successfully changed the settings multiple times.

The issue is not related to Claude or OpenRouter. The problem is with yt-dlp, which CyberSEO Pro uses to extract YouTube video transcripts. yt-dlp is an open-source command-line utility for downloading transcripts from YouTube. You can find it here: Login to see this link

According to your log:

yt-dlp not found, attempting to install - CyberSEO Pro did not find the yt-dlp binary on your server and tried to install it automatically.

Failure: Login to see this link is disabled on this server - your hosting provider has disabled PHP's exec() function. CyberSEO Pro uses exec() to install and run yt-dlp, so when it is disabled, the installation cannot proceed.

As a result, transcript extraction fails and the post is not added.

If you want to import YouTube transcripts, you'll need to contact your hosting provider and ask them to enable the PHP exec() function (or move to a hosting environment where it is available). Once exec() is enabled, CyberSEO Pro should be able to install and run yt-dlp, allowing transcript extraction to work normally.

Since you are already using OpenRouter in CyberSEO Pro, you can handle the whole workflow in Custom PHP without using the %youtube_transcript[...]% placeholder: https://www.cyberseo.net/blog/import-youtube-video-transcripts-into-ai-generated-wordpress-articles/

The %youtube_transcript[...]% placeholder is only a shortcut that tells CyberSEO to run its own transcript extraction process. Since your hosting blocks exec(), remove that placeholder from your post template.

Your Custom PHP code can do the following:

1. Get the YouTube transcript using your external API (via PHP/cURL).
2. Send that transcript to OpenRouter using CyberSEO's cyberseo_openrouter_shortcode() API function.
3. Save the generated article directly into $post['post_content']

The transcript itself does not need to be stored in a CyberSEO variable. It can simply be a normal PHP variable:

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So the solution is not to override %youtube_transcript%, but to replace that part of the workflow completely with your own PHP code.

You ask, "Why can't my server load the preset file?" The only place you'll find a clear, definitive answer is in your server's PHP error log. Everything else is just speculation and guesswork. For example, since you updated your PHP, you need to check that its settings meet CyberSEO Pro's system requirements:

• WordPress 6 or greater.
• PHP ver. 7.4.32 or higher (PHP 8 or higher is recommended).
• Essential PHP extensions: curl, gd, imagick, json, libxml, mbstring, openssl, simplexml, xml, zip, zlib.
• Access to cron on server (recommended).
• PHP exec() function must be enabled to run external tools such as yt-dlp (recommended).
• A live web site with a domain name. The plugin can’t be activated at unnamed IP address or at localhost.

Please note the requirement for the zip and zlib extensions. Since the plugin conserves bandwidth, all data is downloaded by the plugin in an archived format. Therefore, your server must be able to extract these files. Since your hosting provider has restricted your ability to use the exec() function, for example, it's reasonable to assume that they haven't enabled these extensions in your php.ini file either.

Therefore, I recommend contacting your hosting provider for assistance and asking them to resolve the issues causing the errors logged in your server log. They have access to it because it's their server. Only they know how to fix the settings.