YouTube Transcript
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Fetches transcripts for YouTube videos.
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- deepakjois
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Setup
Install YouTube Transcript in your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and others).
Repository: https://github.com/deepakjois/ytt-mcp
Follow the installation instructions in the repository README, then restart your MCP client.
The most convenient way to install and run is to useuvand then invoke the package usinguvx
Using MCP Inspector (for development/debugging/testing only)
This will generate a localhost URL that can be used to examine and test out the server.
Go toSettings→Developer, and then click onEdit Config. This will open the claude-desktop-config.json file in your default editor. Make the following addition
{ "mcpServers": { …<rest of the config>… "ytt-mcp": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["ytt-mcp"] } } }
Relaunch Claude config and try out the server as shown in the screenshot below
If you are using Raycast, you can install the MCP server by invoking theInstall Servercommand from the MCP extension.
After that you can refer to the MCP server as@youtube-transcriptand interact with it. You can also use it in a Raycast AI Command with a prompt. For example, here is a prompt I use to extract and summarize a YouTube URL in the clipboard
@youtube-transcript fetch the Youtube transcript of the video: {clipboard | raw} Comprehensively summarize the transcript with the following format: """ ### Key Takeaways - <EXACTLY three bullet points with the key takeaways, keep the bullet points as short as possible> """ ### Theme Wise Breakdown <divide the transcript into thematic sections and summarize each section comprehensively. reuse any existing section delimiters the article already has. If not add your own. keep the content of the breakdown in the same order as it appears in the webpage text.> Some rules to follow precisely: - ALWAYS capture the perspective and POV of the author - NEVER come up with additional information
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