YouTube Transcript AI

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claude mcp add --transport http youtube-transcript https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>"

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

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

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URL: https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp

Replace the values in angle brackets with your own. Keys stay on your machine; we never see them.

Tools 16 found in our last check

• get_youtube_transcript

  Fetch the full text transcript of a YouTube video. Accepts a YouTube URL (watch, youtu.be, shorts, embed) or a bare 11-character video ID, and returns the transcript as plain text with title and metadata. Optionally pass a BCP-47 language code to select a specific caption track.…

• search_youtube_videos

  Search YouTube and return matching videos with channel, view count and duration. Use it first when researching a topic: run several differently-worded queries (and in more than one language), then read the best hits with get_youtube_transcript, find_in_transcript or get_transcri…

• find_in_transcript

  Find where a video talks about something. Give one or more keywords and get back only the matching passages, each with a timestamp and a link that opens the video at that moment. Far cheaper than reading the whole transcript when you are looking for specific points. Matching is…

• get_transcripts_batch

  Read the transcripts of several videos in one call (up to 5, or 25 on the Ultra plan), each cut to a length you choose, so you can skim a set of search results without filling your context. Each video counts as one request against your daily quota. For the rest of a long video u…

• get_video_details

  Get the facts about one video without its transcript: title, channel, views, length, publish date, which caption languages exist (human-made or auto-generated), the full description, and the chapter list with a link to each chapter. Use it to decide whether a video is worth read…

• get_transcript_section

  Read only part of a transcript, between two timestamps, e.g. one chapter of a long podcast or the ten minutes around a moment found with find_in_transcript. Much smaller than the full transcript.

• find_in_videos

  Search several videos for the same keywords in one call and get back only the matching passages, grouped by video, plus which videos never mention them. Use it to check a set of search results or a channel's latest uploads for a topic without reading them all. Up to 5 videos per…

• latest_from_channels

  See what several channels uploaded most recently, in one call: the newest videos of each channel, newest first. Use it as a watchlist ("anything new from these creators?"), then skim the new videos with get_transcripts_batch or check them for a topic with find_in_videos. Up to 5…

• get_video_comments

  Fetch the top comments of a YouTube video (YouTube's "top" ordering, replies not included), with like counts. Comments are where viewers report what worked for them, which makes them useful for checking claims made in the video.

• list_channel_videos

  List the latest videos of a YouTube channel or playlist, with view count and duration. Use it to follow a creator who looks credible, or to cover a playlist. Returns at most 50 videos per call; to go further, call again with offset set to the number of videos already read (the r…

• get_account_status

  Show the plan of the API key on this connection (Free or Pro), the daily request quota, how many requests were used today, how many remain, when the quota resets, and the per-call limits of the tools. Free: it does not use any quota. Call it before a large job to check the quota…

• search_spoken_words

  Search what people actually say inside YouTube videos. Full-text search over about 100 million spoken sentences from about 425,000 English-language videos (the ones users looked up on youtube-transcript.ai), with typically 1 to 8 million new sentences added every day. Returns ma…

• get_spoken_context

  Read what was said around a moment in a video: the sentences before and after a timestamp. Use it after search_spoken_words to see what a matching sentence was part of, before you quote or rely on it. Works for videos in the library only.

• rank_videos_by_topic

  Find the videos that talk about something the most, ranked by how many sentences mention it. Better than searching titles when you want the videos that really go deep on a topic. Each result has the number of mentions, the first mention and a link. Read the best ones with get_yo…

• rank_channels_by_topic

  Find which channels talk about something the most, ranked by mentions, with how many of their videos mention it. Use it to find who covers a topic: creators to follow, experts, or partners. Same library, caption quirks and dates as search_spoken_words.

• spoken_mentions_over_time

  Count how often something is mentioned over time, by day, week or month. Each period shows the mentions and the rate per million spoken sentences, so busy and quiet periods compare fairly. Use it to see whether a topic is rising or fading. The date is when we captured the captio…

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