Youtube Transcripts MCP Server

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Youtube Transcripts runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 309 installs a week from npm.

YouTube transcripts for AI agents: videos, channels, playlists, search. Timestamps, SRT, VTT.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Installs per day peak 249 · avg 8

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309

Installs / week

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Quiet is not dead — but it is worth knowing when it wakes up, or when someone else takes it over. We watch the repository and tell you either way.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add youtube-transcripts -- npx -y fetchworks-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcripts": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "fetchworks-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.youtube-transcripts]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "fetchworks-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcripts": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "fetchworks-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcripts": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "fetchworks-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Youtube Transcripts — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Youtube Transcripts?

Youtube Transcripts runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package fetchworks-mcp was installed 309 times last week.

Is Youtube Transcripts still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect Youtube Transcripts?

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 runs locally, so the command pulls fetchworks-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Youtube Transcripts?

The npm package fetchworks-mcp was installed 309 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.