ScriptHaul MCP Server

by scripthaul Your server? Claim it

answering

ScriptHaul is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Free YouTube transcript fetcher: clean text, timestamped, SRT, VTT, Markdown, or JSON. No API key.

Uptime history 12 days of history

12 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

175 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 7 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

7 Sep 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_bulk_download_link, get_transcript, list_videos

7 Sep a tool appeared get_latest_videos

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check ScriptHaul 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 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add transcripts --transport http https://scripthaul.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "transcripts": {
      "url": "https://scripthaul.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.transcripts]
url = "https://scripthaul.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "transcripts": {
      "url": "https://scripthaul.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "transcripts": {
      "url": "https://scripthaul.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

bulk

get_bulk_download_link

For a YouTube channel or playlist URL, returns a prefilled scripthaul.com link where the user can download every transcript as a ZIP for free. Bulk jobs cannot run over this keyless MCP server; they need the website. Costs 0 credits. Example prompt: "Give me a download link for every transcript in https://www.youtube.com/@TED."

latest

get_latest_videos

Read up to the newest 15 public RSS entries from exactly one channel or playlist, cached for ten minutes. Costs 0 credits and no cold-fetch allowance. Separate allowance: 30 requests per IP per day shared across channels and playlists, including cached reads; resets at midnight UTC. Use a UC channel ID, an already-resolved channel alias, or a public playlist ID/URL; an unknown handle must first be resolved on the keyed API. This is a recent window, not a complete inventory. Example prompt: "What did channel UCAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug upload recently?"

transcript

get_transcript

Fetch the transcript of a single YouTube video by URL or 11-character video ID. Serves the permanent cache instantly when available and otherwise fetches from YouTube (uncached fetches are limited per IP per day). Formats: clean text, timestamped, both, srt, vtt, md, json. Costs 0 credits. Example prompt: "Get the transcript of https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw."

videos

list_videos

List the videos of a YouTube channel or playlist: date, video ID, and title for each. Use this to answer questions about a channel — pick the relevant videos by title, then call get_transcript for each one. Listings are cached for a few hours; a fresh enumeration counts against the same daily allowance as uncached fetches. Costs 0 credits. Example prompt: "List the videos in https://www.youtube.com/@TED."

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://scripthaul.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	240 ms	14 min ago

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ScriptHaul — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can ScriptHaul do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_bulk_download_link, get_latest_videos, get_transcript, list_videos. 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 ScriptHaul working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 175 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect ScriptHaul?

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 ScriptHaul need an API key?

No. ScriptHaul completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is ScriptHaul?

It answers our handshake in 175 ms on average, which is faster than 71% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.