Rippr · Product marque
When I start a project, I build a research folder. Text files on the topic, docs, anything I can find. But some of the best and most relevant information can be very 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, when I was working with Claude Code, I noticed that it had to write a Python script, install packages, and run the whole thing just to pull a transcript off a video. Extra steps, extra tokens, extra time. I wanted to learn how MCP generally works anyway, so I turned the extension into an MCP server and published it on npm. Now any agent gets clean transcripts in one tool call.
Two surfaces, one product
Humans scroll YouTube and need a one-click copy. Agents run headless and need a tool call. Same underlying extraction, two different delivery surfaces. The Chrome extension and the MCP server are the same core logic packaged for where each user lives.
Three output formats for three use cases
RAG ingestion wants flat .txt with no noise. Structured automation wants .json with timestamps and speaker turns. Human reading wants .md with headings and paragraph breaks. One transcript, three presentations. The user picks what their pipeline needs.
No API keys, no paywall
Every competitor in this space either gates the useful output behind a subscription or requires a YouTube Data API key. I pulled transcripts directly through public endpoints. Free to install, free to run, open source. The distribution model is the feature.
Open source, listed on npm and the Chrome Web Store. Live landing page at rippr.me. About 650 monthly downloads on npm as of April 2026.
npm · rippr-mcp Chrome Web Store GitHub rippr.meBuilding Rippr taught me MCP by shipping it, not by reading about it. The second server took a fraction of the time. The first build was the tuition.