Video Transcriber

io.github.nhatvu148/video-transcriber-mcp · v0.10.6

Transcribe videos from 1000+ platforms or local files offline, and search across every transcript

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Terminal

claude mcp add video-transcriber-mcp -e OPENROUTER_API_KEY=<OPENROUTER_API_KEY> -e YT_DLP_COOKIES_FROM_BROWSER=<YT_DLP_COOKIES_FROM_BROWSER> -e YT_DLP_COOKIES=<YT_DLP_COOKIES> -- video-transcriber-mcp

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "video-transcriber-mcp": {
      "command": "video-transcriber-mcp",
      "args": [],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "YT_DLP_COOKIES_FROM_BROWSER": "<YT_DLP_COOKIES_FROM_BROWSER>",
        "YT_DLP_COOKIES": "<YT_DLP_COOKIES>"
      }
    }
  }
}

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "video-transcriber-mcp": {
      "command": "video-transcriber-mcp",
      "args": [],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "YT_DLP_COOKIES_FROM_BROWSER": "<YT_DLP_COOKIES_FROM_BROWSER>",
        "YT_DLP_COOKIES": "<YT_DLP_COOKIES>"
      }
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "video-transcriber-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "video-transcriber-mcp",
      "args": [],
      "env": {
        "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
        "YT_DLP_COOKIES_FROM_BROWSER": "<YT_DLP_COOKIES_FROM_BROWSER>",
        "YT_DLP_COOKIES": "<YT_DLP_COOKIES>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Tools

This server runs locally, so its tools are listed by your MCP client once it starts.

Environment variables

Name	Description
`OPENROUTER_API_KEY` Optional, secret	Enables the semantic `search_transcripts` tool by embedding each transcript as it is saved. Transcription itself stays 100% offline and works without this.
`YT_DLP_COOKIES_FROM_BROWSER` Optional	Browser to pull cookies from for age-restricted or login-gated videos (e.g. 'firefox', 'chrome', 'brave').
`YT_DLP_COOKIES` Optional	Path to a Netscape-format cookies.txt file, as an alternative to YT_DLP_COOKIES_FROM_BROWSER.

Details

Package	`[email protected]` (CARGO, stdio)
First published	23 Aug 2026
Last updated	23 Aug 2026
Registry name	`io.github.nhatvu148/video-transcriber-mcp`

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