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rippr
Rip YouTube transcripts for AI, RAG, and research
Three ways to rip any YouTube transcript: → Website: paste a URL, get the transcript. No signup. → Chrome extension: one click on any YouTube page. → MCP server: feed transcripts directly into Claude, Cursor, or any AI agent. Output in RAG-ready text, structured JSON, or readable Markdown. Multi-strategy extraction (Innertube API → HTML scraping → transcript panel) so it works even when YouTube's API is flaky. Runs locally. No API keys, no accounts, no data collection.
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.
About rippr on Product Hunt
“Rip YouTube transcripts for AI, RAG, and research”
rippr was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #150 on the daily leaderboard. Three ways to rip any YouTube transcript: → Website: paste a URL, get the transcript. No signup. → Chrome extension: one click on any YouTube page. → MCP server: feed transcripts directly into Claude, Cursor, or any AI agent. Output in RAG-ready text, structured JSON, or readable Markdown. Multi-strategy extraction (Innertube API → HTML scraping → transcript panel) so it works even when YouTube's API is flaky. Runs locally. No API keys, no accounts, no data collection.
On the analytics side, rippr competes within Chrome Extensions, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how rippr performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted rippr?
rippr was hunted by Marsel Bait. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of rippr including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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