BulkTranscripts YouTube MCP Server

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BulkTranscripts YouTube is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

YouTube transcripts, search, channel/playlist listings and upload tracking for AI agents. No signup.

Uptime history 10 days of history

10 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

373 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check BulkTranscripts YouTube every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add youtube --transport http https://bulktranscripts.co/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "url": "https://bulktranscripts.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.youtube]
url = "https://bulktranscripts.co/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "url": "https://bulktranscripts.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "url": "https://bulktranscripts.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

channel

get_channel_videos

List the videos of a YouTube channel (id, title, duration, URL) without fetching transcripts. Accepts @handle, channel URL, or UC… channel id. Costs 1 credit. Chain into get_transcripts to bulk-extract.

search_channel

Search within one channel's uploads to find its videos on a topic — great for researching what a creator has said about something without listing the whole archive. Accepts @handle, channel URL, or UC… id. Costs 1 credit.

latest

get_latest_videos

Get a channel's newest uploads (up to 15) with publish dates, from YouTube's RSS feed. Always free — no credit charged — so it is ideal for monitoring channels, daily recaps, and 'did they post this week?' checks. Accepts @handle, URL, or UC… id.

playlist

get_playlist_videos

List every video in a YouTube playlist, in playlist order (courses and series keep their sequence). Accepts a playlist URL or bare playlist id. Costs 1 credit. Chain into get_transcripts to bulk-extract.

transcript

get_transcript

Fetch the full transcript of one YouTube (or TikTok) video as clean text with metadata (title, channel, duration, upload date, language). Accepts a watch URL, youtu.be link, Shorts URL, or bare 11-character video id. Costs 1 credit the first time it is added to this account's library; repeat reads are free. Set include_segments to true only when per-line timestamps are needed (much larger output).

transcripts

get_transcripts

Fetch transcripts for up to 20 videos in one call — pass an array of YouTube URLs or ids. Each new library addition costs 1 credit; repeats from this account's library are free. Videos without captions are reported per-item and do not fail the batch. For whole channels or playlists, first list the videos with get_channel_videos / get_playlist_videos, then batch the ids through this tool. If the balance runs out, completed items are returned with partial=true and an out_of_credits stopped block.

youtube

search_youtube

Search YouTube by keyword for videos, channels, or playlists (set type). Returns titles, ids, and URLs — useful for research, discovery, and finding videos to transcribe. Costs 1 credit per search.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://bulktranscripts.co/mcp	streamable-http	answering	372 ms	6 min ago

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BulkTranscripts YouTube — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can BulkTranscripts YouTube do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_channel_videos, get_latest_videos, get_playlist_videos, get_transcript, get_transcripts, search_channel and 1 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is BulkTranscripts YouTube working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 373 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect BulkTranscripts YouTube?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does BulkTranscripts YouTube need an API key?

No. BulkTranscripts YouTube completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is BulkTranscripts YouTube?

It answers our handshake in 373 ms on average, which is faster than 47% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.