YouTube Transcript MCP Server

Marketing, research and content teams that need the text of YouTube videos to summarise, review or quote.

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claude mcp add youtube-transcript -- npx -y @kimtaeyoon83/mcp-server-youtube-transcript

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What it does

An MCP server that retrieves transcripts and captions from YouTube videos. You pass a video URL, a Shorts URL or a video ID, optionally with a language code, and the agent receives the text to analyse.

Use cases

01Summarise a webinar recording
02Pull quotes from an interview video
03Review a competitor's video content as text

Questions about
YouTube Transcript MCP Server.

What is YouTube Transcript MCP Server used for?

Marketing, research and content teams that need the text of YouTube videos to summarise, review or quote. An MCP server that retrieves transcripts and captions from YouTube videos. You pass a video URL, a Shorts URL or a video ID, optionally with a language code, and the agent receives the text to analyse.

How do I install YouTube Transcript MCP Server?

Run this in your terminal: claude mcp add youtube-transcript -- npx -y @kimtaeyoon83/mcp-server-youtube-transcript

Is YouTube Transcript MCP Server open source?

Yes. The code is on GitHub (kimtaeyoon83/mcp-server-youtube-transcript) under the MIT licence.

Is YouTube Transcript MCP Server safe to use?

It passed our automatic scan for credential theft, hidden instructions and risky install commands. Third party open source software. Sabemos AI does not maintain it. Check the code and permissions before you connect it to company data.

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