MCP YouTube Transcript
An MCP server retrieving transcripts of YouTube videos
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X, YouTube, TikTok and LinkedIn data plus video transcripts in one stdio MCP server. Pay per result.
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Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"social-data": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"social-data-mcp"
],
"env": {
"APIFY_TOKEN": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Run this in your terminal
claude mcp add social-data --env APIFY_TOKEN=your-value -- npx -y social-data-mcpFill in the empty values before running it.
Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"social-data": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"social-data-mcp"
],
"env": {
"APIFY_TOKEN": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.
Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project
{
"servers": {
"social-data": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"social-data-mcp"
],
"env": {
"APIFY_TOKEN": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.
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You need to fill in: APIFY_TOKEN
It runs on your computer. Your AI app starts it when needed, and data does not pass through the maker’s servers (unless it calls an online service itself).
The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (1.2.0) reached the registry 21 days ago.
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An MCP server retrieving transcripts of YouTube videos
GA4 MCP server for AI agents: schema discovery, server-side aggregation, analysis-ready defaults.
AI video summarizer: summarize and transcribe YouTube, Bilibili, TikTok and podcast videos.
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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).
| Tool | Apify Actor | Price |
|---|---|---|
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/date | nick.cheng/youtube-video-channel-scraper | $0.015/video · $0.005/channel |
| TikTok profiles & per-video stats | nick.cheng/tiktok-profile-stats-scraper | $0.02/profile · $0.003/video |
| YouTube transcripts — spoken-language captions as text + timed segments, from links or channels | nick.cheng/youtube-transcript-scraper | $0.005/transcript; no captions, no charge |
| TikTok transcripts — TikTok's captions as text + timed segments | nick.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 login | nick.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.
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).
Published on npm as social-data-mcp and in the MCP Registry as io.github.mrocker/social-data-mcp:
{
"mcpServers": { "social-data": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "social-data-mcp"], "env": { "APIFY_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).
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.
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.
MIT for the code in this repository. The Actors themselves are used under Apify's terms.