Catalyst Labs

Tools

YouTube Transcript API

Videos, Shorts, playlists, channels, search

• 12/12 in a 12-case head-to-head. The five most-used Store tools scored 7–9.
• Matched YouTube's caption tracks word for word on 25/25 tracks, including 2-hour podcasts.
• Text, LLM-clean text, segments, SRT, VTT and Markdown (one combined file), plus views, likes, comments and subscribers.
• onlyNewVideos for daily competitor and faceless-niche monitoring. Free mode to list caption languages first.

$0.008 → $0.005 per transcript · no run fee · failed videos free

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Podcast Transcript API

RSS feeds, Apple Podcasts, episode pages, MP3

• Uses the show's own published transcript first, with speaker labels. Speech-to-text (Whisper large-v3) only when there is none.
• 10/10 in our podcast head-to-head. The other four Store tools scored 2–6.
• Text, LLM text, segments, SRT, VTT, Markdown and chapters. onlyNewEpisodes to monitor shows.
• Spending, minute and episode-length caps. Failed or silent episodes are never charged.

$0.01 per publisher transcript · $0.009 → $0.006 per audio minute · no run fee

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Website Screenshot & PDF API

PNG, JPEG, WebP, PDF · desktop to mobile

• Clicks "Accept" on cookie walls. Cleared both EU consent walls in our 6-tool test.
• Hides chat widgets and popups, shows sticky headers once, loads lazy images.
• Opt-in fast mode, about 2x faster. Colour emoji and CJK rendering. Element capture, custom CSS, cookies, dark mode.
• Bot walls and blank pages return a typed error and aren't charged.

$0.01 per run + $0.008 → $0.005 per screenshot · $0.012 per PDF

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Career Site Jobs Scraper

Live jobs from 17 applicant tracking systems

• Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Oracle and 11 more, in one schema.
• All 15,061 open jobs at NVIDIA, JPMorgan Chase and Bosch in about 45 s (cloud test).
• Verified company matching. Wrong-company matches are flagged, not billed.
• Daily feed of new and closed roles. Minimum-salary filter (hourly and monthly pay converted). Seniority, remote, country code.

$0.01 per run + $0.008 → $0.0035 per job · misses free

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Benchmarks

We benchmark our tools against the most-used alternatives before launch. These are our own tests, with method, date and anonymized competitors: a 12-case YouTube transcript head-to-head, plus cookie-wall, clean-output and billing checks for screenshots.

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For AI agents (MCP)

Each tool is a remote MCP server hosted by Apify. Sign in with Apify (OAuth) or pass an API token. All four are listed in the official MCP Registry under io.github.catalyst-labs-dev.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catalyst-labs": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=catalyst-labs/youtube-transcript-api,catalyst-labs/website-screenshot-pdf-api,catalyst-labs/career-site-jobs-scraper,catalyst-labs/podcast-transcript-api"
    }
  }
}

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