rippr

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<h1 align="center">rippr</h1>

<p align="center"> <strong>YouTube transcript ripper for humans and AI agents.</strong> </p>

<p align="center"> <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/rippr-mcp"><img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/v/rippr-mcp?color=green&label=MCP%20Server" alt="npm" /></a> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/manifest-v3-blue" alt="Manifest V3" /> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-yellow" alt="MIT License" /> </p>

<p align="center"> <a href="https://rippr.me"><strong>Website</strong></a> · <a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rippr"><strong>Chrome Web Store</strong></a> · <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/rippr-mcp"><strong>MCP Server (npm)</strong></a> </p>

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Three ways to use rippr

🌐 Website — rippr.me

Paste a YouTube URL, get the transcript. Also summarizes videos with AI.

🧩 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 AI agent.

npx rippr-mcp

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

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

Then ask: "Get the transcript of this YouTube video: [url]"

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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.

License

MIT