Bring the words from a YouTube video into your AI workflow with source details and timestamps.

Wicked YouTube Transcript Scraper API retrieves existing captions from public YouTube videos. Use the returned text and timestamped segments to prepare a source brief, find passages or build a caption-based research note. Optional SRT and VTT output supports subtitle workflows; language-listing mode helps you see which caption tracks are available first.

Choose a preferred language and manual or automatic captions. Video metadata is included when returned by the source. This tool retrieves captions: it does not transcribe audio or translate, and videos without an available matching track may return no transcript.

This MCPize Community listing is free to access, with no MCPize subscription. Connect your own Apify account and pay Apify's current Actor/platform charges for runs.

A free n8n starter retrieves captions, preserves source URLs and coverage information, and produces an optional SRT download. Keep missing-caption and partial-delivery details alongside any summary your AI creates.

Connect and run

Add this remote Streamable HTTP endpoint to your MCP client:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=myworkingmemory/wicked-youtube-transcript-scraper-api

Choose OAuth and sign in to your own Apify account. This is a direct Apify connection; no MCPize subscription is required. Review the Actor’s current usage prices before running it.

Start with a small input. A start response is a run reference, not the completed result: retain its run ID, use get-actor-run to wait for that same run, then get-dataset-items for its default dataset and get-key-value-store-record for its OUTPUT report. Language-only results are in OUTPUT, with no transcript dataset rows. These helpers are included with the Actor tool; preserve coverage rather than restarting a delayed run.

Download the free n8n workflow · Setup and credentials. Your Apify usage and any n8n costs remain separate.

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