TranscribeText MCP Server

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answering

TranscribeText is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Get YouTube video transcripts and transcribe TikTok videos to text from a link. No sign-up.

Uptime history 69 hours of history · worst hour 75%

69 hours agonow

98.9%

Uptime 24h

91 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

420 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

TranscribeText missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add transcribe --transport http https://transcribetext.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "transcribe": {
      "url": "https://transcribetext.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.transcribe]
url = "https://transcribetext.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "transcribe": {
      "url": "https://transcribetext.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "transcribe": {
      "url": "https://transcribetext.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

transcribe

transcribe_tiktok_video

Transcribe the speech in a TikTok video to text from its link. The spoken language is detected automatically. Usually takes 20 to 60 seconds. Free use is limited per day and per video length; if the transcription is not finished when this call returns, it gives a job_id for get_transcription_result.

transcription

get_transcription_result

Get the result of a transcription that transcribe_tiktok_video started but did not finish in time. Pass the job_id that call returned.

youtube

get_youtube_transcript

Get the transcript of a YouTube video from its link. Returns the captions YouTube has for the video (subtitles uploaded by the creator, or the auto-generated captions) as plain text, with the title, channel and the caption languages available. Does not work for videos without captions, or for private, members-only or age-restricted videos.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://transcribetext.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	471 ms	9 min ago

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TranscribeText — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can TranscribeText do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_transcription_result, get_youtube_transcript, transcribe_tiktok_video. 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 TranscribeText working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 92 checks got a reply (98.9%), average response time 420 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect TranscribeText?

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 TranscribeText need an API key?

No. TranscribeText completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is TranscribeText?

It answers our handshake in 420 ms on average, which is faster than 29% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.