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Video and transcripts

35 companies on the social monitoring map. Updated .

Video monitoring tools track what is said and shown in video. They pull transcripts from YouTube and TikTok, search them for a brand or topic, and track channels and competitors. A few also monitor broadcast TV and radio.

Most cover YouTube. Many tools here are transcript APIs that an agent can call, such as TranscriptAPI and YTAPI. TVEyes transcribes TV, radio and podcasts. Plot reads the audio and visuals of social video to find untagged brand mentions.

Video and transcripts

  • TVEyes

    Media intelligence platform that transcribes TV, radio, podcasts and online video and alerts on keyword mentions; sells a Broadcast Data Feed API. No social networks. An agent would use the data feed for spoken-media mentions.

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  • 1of10

    YouTube research and packaging tool. Outlier search, thumbnail search, trending formats and competitor tracking over other people's public YouTube videos, plus AI title, idea and thumbnail generators. Pro and Ultra plans list MCP and API access.

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  • All Ears

    Spoken-media listening: transcribes podcasts, TikTok, YouTube and YouTube Shorts, broadcast and European parliaments in 11 languages, with sentiment, crisis alerts and share of voice; API, RSS and MCP documentation linked.

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  • Archive

    Creator marketing platform that captures posts mentioning a brand on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, finds creators, tracks campaign performance (EMV) and prepares content for ads. Has an API and an MCP server with content, creator and competitor-content tools.

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  • BulkTranscripts

    Bulk YouTube transcript downloader: single videos, playlists, channels, lists of links, up to 1,000 videos per job; exports TXT, SRT, CSV, JSON. REST API and hosted MCP. One-time credits.

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  • dig

    Video-first social listening: dig Enterprise (always-on brand monitoring, alerts, live video feed, narrative tracking), ask-dig (AI search answering questions from social video posts, each answer linked to posts), an App Store of single-job apps and a data API.

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  • Exolyt

    TikTok analytics and social listening: account and hashtag analysis, sentiment, trends and influencer campaigns over a large TikTok database.

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  • FrameFetch

    Video data API and MCP for agents: one call on a social-video URL (YouTube, Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels, Pinterest, Reddit) returns metadata, Whisper transcript, sampled frames and on-screen text. Channel watch with webhooks for new uploads.

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  • GetYouTubeTranscript

    YouTube transcript tool, Chrome extension, API and MCP: transcripts, search, channel browsing, playlists. Free 3 transcripts a day; API from $19/month.

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  • KlipTools

    Prepaid-credit YouTube subtitle downloader with a remote MCP server (two tools: get_youtube_subtitles as SRT, VTT or text, and check_credits). Agent use: pull the spoken text of a YouTube video by link.

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  • Nexlev

    YouTube channel, video and niche research from its own data: niche finder (20,000+ curated niches), channel tracker, outlier and similar-channel search, thumbnail search. Sells a Chrome extension, an MCP server (docs list 72 tools), a REST API and an n8n pack.

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  • OutlierKit

    YouTube research on any public channel: outlier videos, competitor channels, sponsors and comment demand; API and a 10-tool MCP for Claude on Pro and Max.

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  • OverseerOS

    YouTube competitor and market research: turns winning public channels and videos into titles, thumbnails, scripts and content plans, including breakout and competitor monitoring.

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  • Playboard

    YouTube rankings and analytics: channel and video charts, Super Chat earnings rankings, live stream charts and a channel search over 25M channels with professional filters. Korean-run (DIFF Inc.).

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  • Plot

    AI video social listening: reads audio, visuals and captions of social video to find brand mentions (including untagged ones), sentiment and competitor analytics, plus Creator Intelligence that sources creators from what is in their videos. An agent would watch brand and creator video.

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  • ScrapingBee

    ScrapingBee's dedicated YouTube Scraping API returns YouTube search results, video metadata and subtitles as structured JSON; its broader scraping platform also offers MCP access.

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  • Shortimize

    Dashboard that tracks unlimited creator, competitor and brand accounts across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook short-form video; outlier flags; API, webhooks and MCP as add-ons.

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  • Social Voice

    API-first social video intelligence that reads the voice and visuals inside video and feeds them into existing social listening platforms, which see only metadata. Sold to brands, agencies, platforms and consultancies; Chrome extension available.

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  • TranscriptAPI

    Hosted REST API and MCP for YouTube data: transcripts, video and channel search, playlist extraction, new-upload tracking. Separate from the open-source youtube-transcript-api package.

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  • TranscriptAPI.io

    Hosted REST API and MCP server for YouTube data: transcripts of any public video, YouTube search, a channel's latest uploads, in-channel search, playlists, and a free webhook that fires on a subscribed channel's new upload. An agent uses it to watch channels and read what is said.

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  • TranscriptFetch

    Transcript API and MCP server for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram video. Returns timestamped JSON, plus search, channel, playlist and scheduled channel-monitor endpoints, with AI transcription when captions are missing.

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  • TranscriptOut

    YouTube transcript API for bulk extraction (up to 4,000 videos per batch job from links, playlists or channels), with a 14-tool hosted MCP server and agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and OpenClaw.

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  • TubeLab

    YouTube niche and outlier finder: 400K+ channels and 4M+ outliers, similar-channel search, trending title formats, transcripts and comments, with a developer API, scans, webhooks and a YouTube MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor.

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  • Tubular Labs

    Social video intelligence across YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch: audience, creator and content measurement over a claimed 25B-video database, with an API.

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  • VidWords

    YouTube transcript extraction and search with clickable timestamps, AI Watch on speech and on-screen frames, bulk channel and playlist extraction, and Channel Radar, which emails a digest of new videos on followed channels. REST API and MCP on paid plans.

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  • Viewstats

    Public YouTube analytics co-founded by MrBeast: channel and video stats, outlier videos, thumbnail search, alerts and collections for tracking other channels. Pro for individuals, Business tier with an API.

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  • ViralMoment

    ViralMoment provides AI social-video intelligence that analyzes video content for trends, mentions and competitor activity. Its current application routes access through Sprinklr.

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  • ViralStat

    Social video analytics platform that tracks and compares public YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook channels and videos, with competitor benchmarking, trending content discovery, influencer research and email alerts. An agent would use it to watch competitor and creator video output.

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  • Virlo

    Short-form video trend and creator monitoring across TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels: Content Research Agents, Trends API, MCP server and Meta ad intelligence.

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  • Winnin

    Cultural intelligence from video: analyses billions of videos to show where demand is emerging (Demand Intelligence), brand and territory affinity, and Share of Attention against competitors. Enterprise, sold on demo; an API terms page exists.

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  • YouTube Transcript.io

    YouTube transcript service with a REST API: POST transcripts for up to 50 video ids and channel info for up to 50 channels, plus bulk extraction from playlists, channels and CSV lists in the web app, watchlists and AI summaries. An agent uses it to read what channels say.

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  • youtube-transcript.ai

    Free YouTube transcript tool with an MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT that fetches the full transcript of a video in any caption language. Paid email service cleans, summarises and translates captions. Run by the team behind SubKun.

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  • YouTubeTranscript.dev

    YouTube transcript API with AI speech-to-text fallback when a video has no captions. V2 REST API has batch (up to 3,000 videos), playlist and channel video listing, search for videos, Shorts, channels and playlists, webhooks, SDKs and an MCP server. Also study and research tools.

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  • YouTubeTranscriptDownload

    YouTube transcript downloader (single transcripts free) with a bearer-token REST API (single and bulk), and an MCP server with channel and playlist transcript tools plus AI caption cleanup.

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  • YTAPI

    YouTube data API for agents: transcripts (word timings, Markdown, SRT, VTT), video details, most-replayed heatmaps, paginated comments, search, channels and playlists, with batch calls up to 100 tasks. REST API, OpenAPI spec, MCP server, Python and TypeScript SDKs.

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