ai.youtube-transcript/youtube-transcript

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YouTube Transcript AI

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Read YouTube transcripts and search what people say across 425k videos. Free API key.

Summary by lookupd

Searches and reads YouTube transcripts, comments and channel listings to find what videos say about a topic.

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http youtube-transcript https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add youtube-transcript --url https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

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

Other clients: docs. Or tell your agent: Set up lookupd for me: read https://lookupd.com/agent.md and follow it.

Tools (16 tools)

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• 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 trans
• 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 (
• 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 vid
• 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
• 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),
• 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. Muc
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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. Re
• 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 reset
• 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
• 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
• 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 g
• 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
• 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 q

Details

• Version: 1.3.0
• Transports: streamable-http
• Uptime (7 days): 100%
• Median latency: 849 ms
• First indexed: 2026-11-01T08:51:17.341Z
• Last seen in registry: 2026-11-01T08:51:17.373Z
• Repository: https://github.com/zxl777/youtube-transcript-mcp
• Website: https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp

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