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⚡ YouTube AI Transcript & Video Intelligence Extractor [MCP]

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Extract YouTube video transcripts, timestamps, chapters, and metadata formatted as clean Markdown for AI RAG pipelines, LLMs, and Cursor.

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Jayshree Jain

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🌟 Architectural Comparison: AI-Ready Transcript Structuring vs. Raw Subtitle Scrapers

Feature	Traditional Browser-Based Scrapers	⚡ YouTube AI Transcript Extractor [MCP]
RAG Chapter Chunking	❌ Dumps wall of text	✅ Automatic `## [MM:SS] Chapter` segmentation
Punctuation & Flow	❌ Raw fragmented ASR cues	✅ Punctuation-restored paragraphs
LLM Context Budgeting	❌ No token calculation	✅ Calculates characters, words, & estimated LLM tokens
Manual vs ASR Detection	❌ Random caption selection	✅ Prioritizes human captions over auto-generated ASR
Metadata & JSON-LD	❌ Text only	✅ Full VideoObject Schema.org, view count, & channel intel
Error Handling	❌ Crashes on un-captioned videos	✅ Graceful error taxonomy (Exit 0 guaranteed)
Execution Architecture	Heavyweight Browser Emulation	✅ Direct TimedText HTTP Extraction (Zero Browser Overhead)

📥 Input Example

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
  ],
  "preferManualCaptions": true,
  "targetLanguages": ["en", "en-US"],
  "includeChapters": true,
  "includeTimestamps": true,
  "includeMetadata": true
}

📤 Output Dataset Format

{
  "videoId": "dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ",
  "title": "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)",
  "channelName": "Rick Astley",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw",
  "durationSeconds": 213,
  "durationFormatted": "03:33",
  "viewCount": 1814378375,
  "captionType": "manual",
  "language": "en",
  "chaptersCount": 4,
  "chapters": [
    { "title": "Intro", "startTimeSeconds": 0, "timestamp": "00:00" },
    { "title": "Chorus", "startTimeSeconds": 43, "timestamp": "00:43" }
  ],
  "transcriptMarkdown": "# Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up\n\n## [00:00] Intro\n[00:01] [Music] ...",
  "charCount": 2771,
  "wordCount": 512,
  "estimatedTokens": 692,
  "success": true,
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-11T10:15:00.000Z"
}

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