L50 YouTube Transcripts MCP Server

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L50 YouTube Transcripts is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 1 tools.

Clean transcripts of any YouTube video with captions. Pay per call with x402 USDC, no API key.

Uptime history 7 hours of history

7 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

23 of 23 checks

Tools

read from the server

143 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check L50 YouTube Transcripts 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 4 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add l50-youtube-transcripts --transport http https://youtube.l50automation.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://youtube.l50automation.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.l50-youtube-transcripts]
url = "https://youtube.l50automation.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "l50-youtube-transcripts": {
      "url": "https://youtube.l50automation.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "l50-youtube-transcripts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://youtube.l50automation.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

youtube_transcript

The transcript of one YouTube video, Short or livestream as clean text, with title, channel, language and optional timestamped segments. Videos without captions are refused free. Costs $0.01 per call, paid in USDC on Base with x402.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://youtube.l50automation.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	129 ms	4 min ago

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L50 YouTube Transcripts — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can L50 YouTube Transcripts do?

It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: 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 L50 YouTube Transcripts working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 23 of 23 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 143 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect L50 YouTube Transcripts?

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 L50 YouTube Transcripts need an API key?

No. L50 YouTube Transcripts 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 L50 YouTube Transcripts?

It answers our handshake in 143 ms on average, which is faster than 86% 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.