YouTube Transcript
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Free, keyless MCP server that fetches full YouTube transcripts in any language for Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor — no API key or signup.
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Setup
Install YouTube Transcript in your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and others).
Repository: https://github.com/zxl777/youtube-transcript-mcp
Follow the installation instructions in the repository README, then restart your MCP client.
Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any MCP client the ability to readYouTube transcripts— free, no API key, no signup.
A hostedModel Context Protocolserver that exposes one tool,get_youtube_transcript, backed byyoutube-transcript.ai. Paste a YouTube link mid-conversation and your AI reads the full transcript on demand — no copy-paste, no browser tab.
That's it. It's hosted — there's nothing to install or run. Add the URL to your client below.
- Free & keyless— no account, no token, no quota wall.
- Actually reliable— a hardened fetch pipeline with proxy fallback returns transcripts even on videos that block typical scrapers, so your model rarely comes back empty-handed.
- Any language— pick a caption track by language code (en,zh-CN,es,ja, …) or let it choose the default.
- Built for agents— one clean tool, plain-text output with title and metadata.
Settings →Connectors→Add custom connector
Then ask:“Summarize this video:https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ”
In the custom connector / MCP server setup, add an MCP server with URLhttps://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp(transport:Streamable HTTP), enable it for your chat, then paste a YouTube link.
Cursor / Windsurf / Cline / Claude Desktop (config file)
For clients that launch MCP servers via a config file, bridge the remote server withmcp-remote:
{ "mcpServers": { "youtube-transcript": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"] } } }
Clients that support remote MCP URLs natively can usehttps://youtube-transcript.ai/mcpdirectly.
Fetch the full text transcript of a YouTube video.
Returns plain text: the transcript with title, duration, and a list of available languages.
- “Summarize the key points of<link>in 5 bullets.”
- “Pull the transcript of this video and translate it to Spanish.”
- “What does the speaker say about pricing in<link>? Quote the exact lines.”
The server speaks standard MCP over Streamable HTTP (JSON-RPC). A zero-dependency example is inexamples/quickstart.mjs:
node examples/quickstart.mjs https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
- Fair use:the endpoint is rate-limited per IP to keep it free for everyone. For heavy/automated workloads, get in touch.
- Not affiliatedwith YouTube or Google. Transcripts are fetched from publicly available captions.
- Web tool (no AI client needed):https://youtube-transcript.ai
- Connector landing page:https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp
- Ready-made transcripts:https://youtube-transcript.ai/docs
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