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YouTube Transcript AI

Fetch the full transcript of any YouTube video as clean text. No API key, no signup.

Should I use this

Quality & Safety

A
Description quality
100%
Schema completeness
100%
Naming quality
100%
Poisoning risk
100%
Permission match
100%
Protocol compliance
100%

Based on automated analysis of tool definitions and protocol compliance.

Context Cost

~153Tokens (tool definitions)
~810 BTypical response size
Minimal attention impact (0.12% of 128k context)

This is the approximate number of tokens consumed each time the server's tools are loaded into a model's context. Higher counts reduce the attention available for other tasks.

Install

One-Click Install

Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcript": {
      "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Remote endpoints

https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcpstreamable-http

What it can do

Tool inventory

Tools (1)

🟢 Read-only🟡 Write🔴 Delete⚪ Unknown
🟢get_youtube_transcript(video, lang)

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.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "video": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "YouTube video URL or 11-character video ID"
    },
    "lang": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional BCP-47 language code, e.g. \"en\", \"zh-CN\", \"es\". Omit for the default track."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "video"
  ]
}

Recommended Prompts

retrieve_data
Get details about [item] from YouTube Transcript AI
Expected tools: get_youtube_transcript
fetch_info
Fetch [information type] using YouTube Transcript AI
Expected tools: get_youtube_transcript

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Evidence

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