Hey PH! I'm Marsel, product designer in Tokyo. Why I built this: When I start a project, I build a research folder. Text files, docs, anything I can find. But some of the best information is niche and only exists as video. No articles, no blog posts, just some guy explaining it on YouTube. Most transcript tools either push you toward a paid plan or give you timestamped chunks you have to clean up before an AI can use them. So I made a Chrome extension that gives you clean text in one click. Later, working with Claude Code, I noticed it had to write a Python script, install packages, and run the whole thing just to pull a transcript. Extra steps, extra tokens, extra time. So I turned the extension into an MCP server and published it on npm. Now any agent gets clean transcripts in one tool call. Everything runs locally, fully open source, no API key or signup needed. Would love to hear what you think.

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Rip YouTube transcripts for AI, RAG, and research

Rip YouTube transcripts for AI, RAG, and research