MCP YouTube Transcript
An MCP server retrieving transcripts of YouTube videos
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Social media data for agents: profiles, posts, comments, search, ads, transcripts.
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Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.
SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEYValues marked secret are keys to your account. Never share them or paste them into a chat.
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Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"socialscrape": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"socialscrape-mcp"
],
"env": {
"SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Run this in your terminal
claude mcp add socialscrape --env SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY=your-value -- uvx socialscrape-mcpFill in the empty values before running it.
Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"socialscrape": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"socialscrape-mcp"
],
"env": {
"SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY": "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": {
"socialscrape": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"socialscrape-mcp"
],
"env": {
"SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY": "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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Runs on your computer; the tool list appears in your AI app after you install it.
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This one runs on your computer; there is no internet endpoint
Runs on your computer and uses local settings instead
Runs on your computer; we can only read tool lists from internet endpoints
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You need to fill in: SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY
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 (0.1.2) reached the registry today.
Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Python (uv) on your computer.
In the same category: MCP YouTube Transcript, Google Analytics MCP, BibiGPT YouTube Video Summarizer
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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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The SocialScrape MCP server: social media data (profiles, posts, comments, search, ads, transcripts) for Claude, Cursor and any other MCP client that starts a local server.
It is generated from SocialScrape's endpoint registry and grouped so an agent sees a usable number of tools instead of one per endpoint:
| Tools | What |
|---|---|
get_transcript, search, get_profile, get_post, get_comments | The jobs agents do most, across platforms. The platform is an argument. |
one per platform (github, facebook, twitter, ...) | resource picks the data (user, profile.posts, ...); parameters follow. |
describe | Exact parameters, allowed values, price, example arguments. Free, no API call. |
call_endpoint, batch, get_job, monitors, get_credits | Any endpoint by id, up to 100 requests in one call, async jobs, webhooks, balance. |
Only built endpoints appear as tools. A platform shows up in the next release after its endpoints are built.
Every result starts with ok | credits charged: 1 | credits remaining: 4999 (and the structured copy carries the numbers as fields). Failures are free and come back as isError with the API's error code, a retryable flag and what to do next.
The server runs on your own machine. Your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor) starts it as a subprocess over stdio. SocialScrape does not run a hosted MCP server, so there is no MCP URL to connect to.
{ "mcpServers": { "socialscrape": {
"command": "uvx", "args": ["socialscrape-mcp"], "env": { "SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY": "ss_live_..." } } } }
Get a key at https://socialscrape.dev/sign-up?utm_source=github&utm_medium=repo&utm_campaign=socialscrape-mcp. Tool discovery works without a key; a tool call without one explains how to add it.
Fewer tools. Some clients cap the number of tools (Cursor warns past 40). Narrow the list in the env block:
| Setting | |
|---|---|
| only some platforms | SOCIALSCRAPE_PLATFORMS=github,threads |
| only the cross-platform and account tools | SOCIALSCRAPE_TOOLSETS=core |
| only the platform tools | SOCIALSCRAPE_TOOLSETS=platforms |
With core alone an agent still reaches every endpoint through describe and call_endpoint.
Serve it over HTTP yourself. For a client that can only reach a URL, install the extra and run the server on a host you control: pip install 'socialscrape-mcp[http]', then socialscrape-mcp http --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080. Each request carries its own key in the x-api-key header (or Authorization: Bearer ...), and ?platforms= and ?toolsets= narrow the tools. This is yours to run and secure; SocialScrape does not offer it as a service.
| Variable | Default | |
|---|---|---|
SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY | none | stdio only; the HTTP mode reads each request's key |
SOCIALSCRAPE_API_URL | https://api.socialscrape.dev | |
SOCIALSCRAPE_MCP_TRIM | 1 | ask for trim=true (no null fields, no extra) unless a call says otherwise; saves context |
SOCIALSCRAPE_MCP_MAX_CHARS | 100000 | longest answer; longer lists are cut to whole items, transcripts come in windows (offset) |
SOCIALSCRAPE_MCP_TIMEOUT | 70 | seconds to wait for the API |
SOCIALSCRAPE_MCP_ALLOWED_ORIGINS | any | HTTP mode only; comma list, set it to refuse browser calls from other origins |
SOCIALSCRAPE_PLATFORMS, SOCIALSCRAPE_TOOLSETS | all | see above |