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Faceabot YouTube transcript MCP Server

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Faceabot YouTube transcript is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 1 tools.

What is said in a YouTube video: transcript with timestamps, title and channel. Free, no key.

Uptime history 4 days of history
4 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
177 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

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

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add youtube --transport http https://youtube.faceabot.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://youtube.faceabot.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.youtube]
url = "https://youtube.faceabot.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "url": "https://youtube.faceabot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "youtube": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://youtube.faceabot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 1

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

youtube
get_youtube_transcript
Returns the title, channel, duration and full transcript (subtitles or automatic captions) of a public YouTube video, with a timestamp every 30 seconds. Can translate the captions (lang). Use when: you need to know what is said in a YouTube video, summarize it or quote it. Example: {"video":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"}

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://youtube.faceabot.com/mcp streamable-http answering 149 ms 10 min ago

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Faceabot YouTube transcript — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Faceabot YouTube transcript do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_youtube_transcript. 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 Faceabot YouTube transcript 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 177 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Faceabot YouTube transcript?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Faceabot YouTube transcript need an API key?
No. Faceabot YouTube transcript completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Faceabot YouTube transcript?
It answers our handshake in 177 ms on average, which is faster than 83% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.