YouTube Transcript AI

Name: YouTube Transcript AI
Author: zxl777

by zxl777version 1.3.0i★ –iRuns in the cloud

Registry nameai.youtube-transcript/youtube-transcript

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Read YouTube transcripts and search what people say across 425k videos. Free API key.

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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.

Before you install

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Runs on the maker’s server: what you ask it goes through their server.
You fill in yourself: Authorization

Values marked secret are keys to your account. Never share them or paste them into a chat.

You need

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

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http youtube-transcript https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp --header 'Authorization: Bearer {api_key}'

Fill in the empty values before running it.

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcript": {
      "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer {api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "youtube-transcript": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer {api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

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

Values you fill in

Authorization secret required HTTP header
API key sent as a Bearer token. Create a free key at https://youtube-transcript.ai/get-api-key

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

What it can do

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Compared with others in Marketing & social mediai

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Published to the registry more recently than 81% of the other 2952 servers in this category
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Common questions

Is YouTube Transcript AI safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

You need to fill in: Authorization

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (1.3.0) reached the registry 8 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

In the same category: MCP YouTube Transcript, Google Analytics MCP, BibiGPT YouTube Video Summarizer

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README from the maker

Open the README

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YouTube Transcript MCP Server

Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code and any MCP client the ability to read YouTube transcripts. Hosted, nothing to install. Free API key: 10 requests a day.

A hosted Model Context Protocol server that exposes one tool, get_youtube_transcript, backed by youtube-transcript.ai. Paste a YouTube link mid-conversation and your AI reads the full transcript on demand.

Connector URL:

https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp?key=YOUR_KEY

Replace YOUR_KEY with your API key. Create a free key with a Google sign-in; it takes about a minute.

Why

Free to start. A free key covers 10 transcripts a day. Pro is 1,000 a day for $120 a year, on the same key.
Reliable. A hardened fetch pipeline with proxy fallback returns transcripts even on videos that block typical scrapers.
Any language. Pick a caption track by language code (en, zh-CN, es, ja, …) or let it choose the default.
Built for agents. One tool, plain-text output with title and metadata. Multi-hour videos come back in parts, so nothing gets cut off.

Authentication

Tool calls need an API key. There is no OAuth. Send the key in one of two ways:

Where	Example
Header	`Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY`
URL	`https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp?key=YOUR_KEY`

The URL form is for clients that only accept a connector URL.

Quick start

Claude (web / desktop)

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Field	Value
Name	`youtube-transcript.ai`
URL	`https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp?key=YOUR_KEY`

Then ask: *“Summarize this video: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ”*

ChatGPT

In the custom connector / MCP server setup, add an MCP server with URL https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp?key=YOUR_KEY (transport: Streamable HTTP), enable it for your chat, then paste a YouTube link.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user youtube-transcript \

https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp \ --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json, or to .cursor/mcp.json inside one project:

"mcpServers": { "youtube-transcript": { "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY" } } } }

Codex

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.youtube-transcript]

url = "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp" http_headers = { "Authorization" = "Bearer YOUR_KEY" }

Clients that only launch local servers

For clients that start MCP servers from a config file and cannot take a remote URL, bridge with mcp-remote:

"mcpServers": { "youtube-transcript": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp?key=YOUR_KEY"] } } }

Let your agent do it

Paste https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp.md into a coding agent. It is a plain-text version of these instructions, written for an AI to follow.

Tool reference

`get_youtube_transcript`

Fetch the full text transcript of a YouTube video.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`video`	string	yes	YouTube URL (watch, `youtu.be`, shorts, embed) or a bare 11-character video ID
`lang`	string	no	Caption language code, e.g. `en`, `zh-CN`, `es`. Omit for the default track
`offset`	integer	no	Where to continue a long transcript. Use the value given at the end of the previous part

Returns plain text: the transcript with title, duration, and a list of available languages. Transcripts over 120,000 characters come back in parts; each part ends with a note giving the offset for the next call.

Example prompts

“Summarize the key points of in 5 bullets.”
“Pull the transcript of this video and translate it to Spanish.”
“What does the speaker say about pricing in ? Quote the exact lines.”

Programmatic use

The server speaks standard MCP over Streamable HTTP (JSON-RPC). A zero-dependency example is in examples/quickstart.mjs:

YT_TRANSCRIPT_KEY=YOUR_KEY node examples/quickstart.mjs https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Calling from your own code without MCP? There is a plain HTTP endpoint too: see the YouTube Transcript API.

Limits

Free: 10 requests a day. Pro: 1,000 a day for $120 a year. Upgrade from the key page.
Every tool call counts as one request, including each part of a long transcript. The count resets at 00:00 UTC.
The video needs captions, either written by the uploader or auto-generated by YouTube.

Notes

Not affiliated with YouTube or Google. Transcripts are fetched from publicly available captions.
Listed in the official MCP Registry as ai.youtube-transcript/youtube-transcript.

License

MIT

YouTube Transcript AI

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

Values you fill in

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Marketing & social mediai

Common questions

Alternatives

MCP YouTube Transcript

Google Analytics MCP

BibiGPT YouTube Video Summarizer

README from the maker

YouTube Transcript MCP Server

Why

Authentication

Quick start

Claude (web / desktop)

ChatGPT

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

Clients that only launch local servers

Let your agent do it

Tool reference

get_youtube_transcript

Example prompts

Programmatic use

Limits

Notes

Links

License

`get_youtube_transcript`