YouTube Transcripts

What you can do with it

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• Connection: Runs in the cloud
• Transport: Streamable HTTP
• Category: Marketing & social media
• You need to fill in: Authorization

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

You need

• Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

claude mcp add --transport http youtube-transcripts https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp --header 'Authorization: Bearer {api_key}'

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcripts": {
      "url": "https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer {api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "youtube-transcripts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer {api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

• Authorization secret required HTTP header
  Your API key from https://downloadyoutubetranscripts.com/api-access

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Tool names and descriptions exactly as the server reported them on Nov 8, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.

• get_transcript

  Return the transcript for a single YouTube video URL or ID.

• get_channel_info

  Return metadata for a YouTube channel before starting a job.

• list_channel_videos

  List a YouTube channel's videos with duration metadata, in the order channel jobs use (long-form, then Shorts, then livestreams; newest first). limit=N previews what start_channel_job with max_videos=N downloads; has_more tells if the channel has more.

• start_channel_job

  Start an async job that downloads channel transcripts.

• start_playlist_job

  Start an async job that downloads playlist transcripts.

• get_job_status

  Poll an async transcript job and get a download URL when ready.

• get_download_url

  Return the ZIP download URL for a completed job.

• cancel_job

  Cancel an async transcript job and refund unprocessed videos.

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 9, 2026

• ✓ Pass

  Maker matches the repo

  The registry name was verified with the GitHub account fbetteo, which owns the repo

• … Not checked yet

  Still maintained

  We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

• … Not checked yet

  Has a licence

  We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

• ✓ Pass

  Endpoint responds

  Responded in 436 ms (HTTP 200)

• – Not applicable

  Sign-in with OAuth

  No sign-in needed

• ✓ Pass

  No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

  Read 8 tool descriptions and found no hidden instructions to the AI

Compared with others in Marketing & social mediai

• More stars than 0% of the other 3620 servers in this category
• Published to the registry more recently than 56% of the other 3620 servers in this category
• Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 3620 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

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