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DimensionYouTube Transcript MCP ServerMCP server that retrieves YouTube video transcripts and metadataFirecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS57 / 100 · C75 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance12 / 2016 / 20
Documentation13 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience12 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Writing and research workflows that need spoken YouTube content as text
  • Users who want quick video information inside an MCP client
  • Scenarios needing clean, structured web context fed to an AI assistant
  • Users already on the Firecrawl platform who want to call its scraping capability directly via MCP
Not for
  • Scenarios that require downloading or playing the YouTube video itself
  • Environments where YouTube access is restricted and no proxy is configured
  • Simple static-page scraping where you don't want to depend on a third-party API and incur call costs
  • Sites that explicitly disallow automated access (robots.txt)
Required permissions
  • Reading local environment variables (e.g. WEBSHARE_PROXY_USERNAME, WEBSHARE_PROXY_PASSWORD, HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY)
  • Network access to YouTube
  • Network access through a proxy server (if configured)
  • Requires a Firecrawl API key to call; cost and quota are governed by the Firecrawl account
  • firecrawl_agent/firecrawl_interact perform automated browser interaction, which may trigger login or form-submission flows on the target site
Risks and side effects
  • YouTube may impose IP bans on the request source, causing requests to fail
  • Proxy credentials stored as environment variables or command line arguments may be readable by other processes on the machine
  • Transcripts are external untrusted content and may contain errors or injected text
  • Long transcripts can exceed model context limits and depend on pagination
  • Bulk crawl/map tools can generate significant request volume against a target site — respect the site's rate limits and terms of service
  • firecrawl_agent's interactive action chain is longer — define task boundaries clearly before running it to avoid accidentally triggering actions on a sensitive site
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Goose, LM StudioClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp
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