Rippr Mcp

io.github.mrslbtPublished by GitHub account mrslbtv1.3.0Updated Oct 25, 2026

Rip YouTube transcripts to disk for AI agents, RAG pipelines, and LLM workflows.

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Overview

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A local MCP server that fetches YouTube video transcripts and saves them to disk, returning the file path to the assistant.

What you can do
Fetch a YouTube video's transcript from a URL and save it under the local rippr transcripts folder, returning the file path to the model. Produce the transcript in RAG text, structured JSON with timestamped segments, or readable Markdown. Fall back across several extraction strategies (player API, page source, transcript panel) with retries when one fails.
When to use it
Useful when you want an assistant to pull YouTube transcripts into local files for RAG pipelines, LLM workflows, or note-taking, and you work in a desktop MCP client such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code CLI, or Cursor.
Requirements
Runs as a local stdio process started with npx from the npm package rippr-mcp, so Node.js and network access to YouTube are needed. Desktop MCP clients only; cloud-hosted or mobile clients cannot spawn it. No accounts or API keys.
Before you install
Writes transcript files to a local folder on your machine. It relies on YouTube's internal endpoints rather than the official Data API, so it may break or hit rate limits without notice, and use is subject to YouTube's Terms of Service at your own risk. It is unofficial and not affiliated with YouTube or Google.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Rippr Mcp in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

README

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rippr

YouTube transcript ripper for humans and AI agents.

[npm] [npm downloads] [Manifest V3] [MIT License] [LobeHub MCP] [Glama MCP]

Website · Chrome Web Store · MCP Server (npm)

Three ways to use rippr

🌐 Website — rippr.me

Paste a YouTube URL, get the transcript. Clean text, no signup.

🧩 Chrome Extension — Chrome Web Store

One-click transcript extraction directly on any YouTube page. Multiple output formats (RAG, JSON, Markdown).

🤖 MCP Server — npm

Connect rippr to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client. Saves each transcript to ~/rippr/transcripts/ and returns the file path to the model.

Desktop clients only. rippr runs as a local stdio process, so it works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code CLI, and Cursor. It does not work with cloud-hosted clients (claude.ai on the web, the Claude mobile app, or Claude Code on phone / web), which can't spawn local processes.

bash
npx rippr-mcp

Add to Claude Desktop (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "rippr": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "rippr-mcp"]    }  }}

Then ask: "Rip this YouTube video: [url]". See mcp/README.md for the full tool surface.

Output formats

  • RAG (.txt) — single continuous text block, optimized for chunking and embedding
  • Structured (.json) — timestamped segments with metadata
  • Readable (.md) — markdown with headers and formatting

How it works

Multi-strategy extraction for maximum reliability:

  1. Innertube API — YouTube's internal player API (Android client)
  2. HTML scraping — parses ytInitialPlayerResponse from page source
  3. Transcript panel — opens YouTube's built-in transcript panel as last resort

Caption XML parsed in multiple formats (srv3, timedtext, JSON3). Retry with exponential backoff on transient failures.

Privacy

Runs entirely on your machine. No data sent to external servers. No accounts, no tracking. Only communicates with YouTube's own APIs.

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Disclaimer

Rippr is an unofficial, community-built tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google LLC. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.

Rippr accesses publicly available YouTube transcript data through endpoints that YouTube's own apps use. Use is subject to YouTube's Terms of Service, and use is at your own risk. The author accepts no liability for takedowns, rate limits, account actions, or any other consequences of use.

If YouTube changes their internal APIs in ways that break extraction, the tool may stop working without notice. For long-term production use, consider the official YouTube Data API v3 with an API key (not currently supported by this package).

License

MIT

Source: README.md at commit c82845e

Tools

0
SourceWeft has not started this package in its sandbox yet, so its tools are not known.

Version history

1
  1. v1.3.0LatestSep 16, 2026

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