YouTube Transcript AI
Fetch the full transcript of any YouTube video as text, in any caption language. Free API key.
Connect it
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
URL: https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcpSettings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode
Create connector with URL: https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"youtube-transcript": {
"url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "<YOUR_AUTHORIZATION>"
}
}
}
}claude mcp add --transport http youtube-transcript https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp --header "Authorization: <value>"{
"servers": {
"youtube-transcript": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "<YOUR_AUTHORIZATION>"
}
}
}
}1 tools, verified live
get_youtube_transcriptFetch 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. Very long transcripts (multi-hour videos) come back in parts of up to 120,000 characters: when there is more, the result
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