Youtube Transcripts

io.github.mrockerPublished by GitHub account mrockerv1.0.0Updated Oct 25, 2026

YouTube transcripts with timestamps from video links or channels. Charged only per transcript.

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Overview

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A hosted Apify MCP server that fetches YouTube video transcripts with timestamps from links or channels, billed per transcript.

What you can do
Retrieve YouTube transcripts as text plus timed segments from video links or channels, with no charge when a video has no captions.
When to use it
Useful when an assistant needs the spoken content of YouTube videos as searchable or quotable text, such as summarizing, quoting or analyzing videos, and you are comfortable paying per transcript through Apify.
Requirements
A remote MCP endpoint at Apify's hosted MCP service, an Apify account authenticated via OAuth when prompted, and network access. Billing runs through the Apify account; a free account is enough to start.
Before you install
Each returned transcript is charged (per the README, about $0.005 per transcript), so usage costs money on your Apify account. Transcripts are the platform's own captions, so videos without captions return nothing. Requests and results pass through Apify's hosted service.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Youtube Transcripts in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Connect the required credentials. They are stored privately and never shown on public pages.
  3. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/io.github.mrocker%2Fyoutube-transcripts/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config. The client completes OAuth sign-in on first connect.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcripts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nick.cheng/youtube-transcript-scraper"
    }
  }
}

README

social-data-mcp

Pay-per-result data tools — X/Twitter profiles & tweets, YouTube videos & channels, TikTok profiles & video stats, YouTube / TikTok transcripts, and LinkedIn companies & public profiles — exposed to AI agents as MCP servers and as Agent Skills. They run on Apify. No platform API key is needed and nothing logs in on its own; the one exception is full X timelines, which need cookies from a session of your own (X shows logged-out visitors only an account's latest few posts). You are charged only for results that actually came back, at the same price on every Apify plan (free included).

ToolApify ActorPrice
X (Twitter) profiles, tweets, single-tweet lookup, engagement filters, incremental runs (full timelines with your own cookies)nick.cheng/x-twitter-profile-tweets-scraper$0.005/account · $0.0003/tweet · $0.005/tweet lookup
YouTube video metadata & channel data, filters by views/duration/datenick.cheng/youtube-video-channel-scraper$0.015/video · $0.005/channel
TikTok profiles & per-video statsnick.cheng/tiktok-profile-stats-scraper$0.02/profile · $0.003/video
YouTube transcripts — spoken-language captions as text + timed segments, from links or channelsnick.cheng/youtube-transcript-scraper$0.005/transcript; no captions, no charge
TikTok transcripts — TikTok's captions as text + timed segmentsnick.cheng/tiktok-transcript-scraper$0.003/transcript; no captions, no charge
LinkedIn companies (industry, size, HQ, website, followers, employees, latest job openings) and public profiles (name, headline, titles, companies, location, education) — no loginnick.cheng/linkedin-company-profile-scraper$0.004/company · $0.004/profile

The YouTube and TikTok tools can also return the transcript alongside the stats (includeSubtitles: true, no extra charge).

Narrower single-purpose variants of the same code, for when you want exactly one thing: x-profile-data · single-tweet-scraper · youtube-video-stats · tiktok-follower-count · tiktok-video-stats.

Use as an MCP server (hosted, no install)

Apify hosts an MCP endpoint for every Actor. Add one URL to any client that supports remote MCP servers (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, …) and authenticate with your Apify account when prompted:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nick.cheng/x-twitter-profile-tweets-scraper,nick.cheng/youtube-video-channel-scraper,nick.cheng/tiktok-profile-stats-scraper,nick.cheng/youtube-transcript-scraper,nick.cheng/tiktok-transcript-scraper,nick.cheng/linkedin-company-profile-scraper

Or pick one: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nick.cheng/youtube-transcript-scraper.

The servers are also listed in the official MCP Registry as io.github.mrocker/x-twitter-profile-tweets, io.github.mrocker/youtube-video-channel, io.github.mrocker/tiktok-profile-stats, io.github.mrocker/youtube-transcripts, io.github.mrocker/tiktok-transcripts, io.github.mrocker/linkedin-company-profile (see servers/), and the first three on Smithery: nick-cheng/x-twitter-profile-tweets · nick-cheng/youtube-video-channel · nick-cheng/tiktok-profile-stats (the Smithery gateway forwards your Apify token as a token query parameter).

Use as a local stdio server

Published on npm as social-data-mcp and in the MCP Registry as io.github.mrocker/social-data-mcp:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "social-data": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "social-data-mcp"],      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "<your token>" }    }  }}

This is a thin wrapper that starts Apify's own @apify/actors-mcp-server pre-scoped to the six Actors above. Get a token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations (free account is enough).

Use as Agent Skills

bash
npx skills add mrocker/social-data-mcp

Installs six skills — x-twitter-profile-tweets, youtube-video-channel, tiktok-profile-stats, youtube-transcripts, tiktok-transcripts, linkedin-company-profile — each a short SKILL.md telling the agent when to call the tool, how (one curl), what comes back, and what the tool cannot do.

What these tools will not do

Keyword search on X, follower lists, reply threads, TikTok video lists per account, LinkedIn people/company search, employee lists and Sales Navigator (all login-only), and speech recognition of their own (transcripts are the platforms' own captions; a video without captions gets none). Full X timelines need cookies you supply; nothing here signs in on its own or uses anyone else's account. The READMEs on Apify say so up front.

Correction (October 2026): earlier versions of this page said YouTube transcripts were impossible and that nothing here needed a login. The first was true only of the YouTube web player's caption links, the only ones we had tested; the second stopped being true for X timelines when X rebuilt its web app.

License

MIT for the code in this repository. The Actors themselves are used under Apify's terms.

Source: README.md at commit b53f326

Tools

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Version history

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  1. v1.0.0LatestOct 17, 2026

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