What is the best alternative to Scribefy MCP?

The top-rated alternatives to Scribefy MCP in the Search & Data Extraction category include BulkTranscripts YouTube, Firecrawl MCP Server, Kagimcp. These servers offer complementary or alternative capabilities depending on your deployment stack and authentication requirements.

How do Scribefy MCP alternatives differ in installation and runtime?

Scribefy MCP and its alternatives vary by runtime requirement (Node.js/npx, Python/uvx, Docker, or remote HTTP/SSE endpoints). Check the specification comparison table above to verify command requirements before installing.

Are alternatives to Scribefy MCP free and open source?

Most MCP servers listed on AllMCPs are open source tools under MIT or Apache licenses that you can self-host or run locally with Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, or Windsurf.

How do I side-by-side compare Scribefy MCP with a specific alternative?

Click the "Compare side-by-side →" button on any alternative card to see an in-depth comparison matrix covering feature lists, stars, npm downloads, install configurations, and schema specifications.

Search & Data Extraction• MCP Alternatives Guide

Best Alternatives to Scribefy MCP

Looking for an alternative to Scribefy MCP? Whether you need a different runtime environment, custom authentication support, or alternative API integrations in the Search & Data Extraction ecosystem, we have cataloged and compared the top alternative MCP servers below.

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Target Reference Server

Scribefy MCP Overview

Scribefy MCP provides YouTube research tools through the MCP standard. Use it with compatible clients to search videos, review metadata and caption tracks, discover related videos, or extract timestamped transcripts. Transcript extraction requires a Scribefy API + MCP plan and consumes credits, while the other tools are free.

Server Name	Runtime	Auth	Pricing	GitHub Stars	Downloads	Action
Scribefy MCP (Target)	npx	API key	Bring your own API key (usage-based cost)	1	—	Current
BulkTranscripts YouTube	Remote (SSE)	API key	Freemium	—	3	Compare →
Firecrawl MCP Server	npx	API key	Freemium	7,495	—	Compare →
Kagimcp	uvx	API key	Bring your own API key (usage-based cost)	526	—	Compare →
Youtube Summarize	uvx	Free/None	Free	6	—	Compare →
Fetch MCP	npx	No auth required	Free	827	—	Compare →
Intercept MCP	npx	No auth required	Free	9	—	Compare →
MCP SearXNG	npx	No auth required	Free	1,250	—	Compare →
💯 YouTube Transcript + YouTube Search MCP for AI Agents	—	Free/None	Freemium	10	—	Compare →
MCP Paperswithcode	—	No auth required	Free	26	—	Compare →
Markcrawl	npx	No auth required	Free	3	—	Compare →
Wigolo	npx	No auth required	Free	5,362	—	Compare →
MCP Pearch	Remote (SSE)	API key	Freemium	9	—	Compare →

Detailed Evaluation of Scribefy MCP Alternatives

BulkTranscripts YouTube

Runtime: Remote (SSE)

Verified

Retrieve YouTube transcripts and discover videos, channels, and playlists through a hosted MCP endpoint.

Key Features:

Single-video transcript retrieval

Batch transcripts for up to 20 videos

Multi-type YouTube search

8 3

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Firecrawl MCP Server

Runtime: npx

Verified

Searches, scrapes, crawls, maps, and researches web content through Firecrawl-compatible MCP tools.

Key Features:

Web, news, image, GitHub, and developer search

URL scraping with structured output options

Bounded multi-page crawling and site mapping

5 0 7,495

Kagimcp

Runtime: uvx

Verified

Searches Kagi’s web indexes and extracts full web pages as Markdown through MCP.

Key Features:

Kagi web, news, video, podcast, and image search

Full-page Markdown extraction

Optional search filters, extracts, and Kagi lenses

3 0 526

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Youtube Summarize

Runtime: uvx

Fetch and summarize YouTube video transcripts with metadata, multi-format and multi-language support.

Key Features:

Multi-format transcript retrieval: text, JSON, SRT, WebVTT, pretty-print

Optional inclusion of timestamps and HTML formatting in transcripts

Video metadata extraction including title, channel, upload date, duration, views, and chapters

1 0 6

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Fetch MCP

Runtime: npx

Fetches web pages, APIs, articles, and YouTube transcripts as HTML, JSON, text, or Markdown through MCP.

Key Features:

HTML, Markdown, plain-text, and JSON fetching

Mozilla Readability article extraction

YouTube transcript retrieval with language selection

3 0 827

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Intercept MCP

Runtime: npx

Fetches web content as clean Markdown with site handlers, caching, search, extraction, and fallback fetch strategies.

Key Features:

Multi-stage web fetching with archive and metadata fallbacks

Dedicated handlers for YouTube, arXiv, Wikipedia, GitHub, and Twitter/X

Search with Brave, SearXNG, or DuckDuckGo fallbacks

3 0 9

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MCP SearXNG

Runtime: npx

MCP server that connects AI assistants to SearXNG for privacy-respecting web search, filtering, metadata discovery, and URL reading.

Key Features:

SearXNG web search with pagination and filtering

Formatted-text or raw-JSON search responses

Instance capability and engine discovery

1 0 1,250

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💯 YouTube Transcript + YouTube Search MCP for AI Agents

Runtime not confirmed

Remote MCP endpoint for YouTube transcripts, search, metadata, channels, playlists, and upload tracking.

Key Features:

YouTube transcript retrieval with timestamps

Video and channel metadata access

YouTube and in-channel search

3 0 10

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MCP Paperswithcode

Runtime not confirmed

Searches PapersWithCode for papers, authors, research areas, conferences, datasets, methods, tasks, results, and linked repositories.

Key Features:

Paper search with title, abstract, and arXiv ID filters

Paper metadata and readable URL-based extraction

Linked results, tasks, methods, datasets, and repositories

5 0 26

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Markcrawl

Runtime: npx

Crawls websites into citation-rich Markdown and JSONL for local web research and RAG workflows.

Key Features:

Single-page and whole-site crawling

Clean Markdown and JSONL output

Citation metadata with access dates

5 0 3

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Wigolo

Runtime: npx

Local-first MCP web research with keyless search, browsing, crawling, extraction, caching, and similarity discovery.

Key Features:

Keyless local web search

Headless browser fetching

Multi-mode website crawling

3 0 5,362

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MCP Pearch

Runtime: Remote (SSE)

MCP server for natural-language search of people and B2B company leads with profile insights and scoring.

Key Features:

Natural-language search for people with optional profile scoring

Search for companies and B2B leads/contacts

Supports masked sample results with test API key

2 0 9

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Best Alternatives to Scribefy MCP

Scribefy MCP Overview

Specification Matrix: Scribefy MCP vs Alternatives

Detailed Evaluation of Scribefy MCP Alternatives

BulkTranscripts YouTube

Firecrawl MCP Server

Kagimcp

Youtube Summarize

Fetch MCP

Intercept MCP

MCP SearXNG

💯 YouTube Transcript + YouTube Search MCP for AI Agents

MCP Paperswithcode

Markcrawl

Wigolo

MCP Pearch

Frequently Asked Questions: Scribefy MCP Alternatives