TranscriptYT MCP Server

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answering

TranscriptYT is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

YouTube transcripts for AI agents: 150+ languages, AI transcription fallback, search, summaries.

Uptime history 7 hours of history

7 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

23 of 23 checks

Tools

read from the server

311 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check TranscriptYT 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 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add transcriptyt --transport http https://transcript-yt.com/mcp

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

https://transcript-yt.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.transcriptyt]
url = "https://transcript-yt.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "transcriptyt": {
      "url": "https://transcript-yt.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "transcriptyt": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://transcript-yt.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

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

languages

list_languages

List the caption tracks available for a YouTube video. Free, and does not use credits.

playlist

list_playlist_videos

List the videos in a YouTube playlist, or a channel's uploads (newest first), with titles and durations. Accepts playlist links or IDs and channel links or @handles. Free on paid plans; Free plan: 10 a day, then 1 credit. Use get_transcript on the videos you need.

summarize

summarize_video

Summary, key points, and timestamped study notes for a public YouTube video, generated from its transcript. Written in the transcript's language (translate_to changes which transcript is summarized). Costs 1 credit for the transcript plus 1 for the summary (2 total) for most videos; long videos cost about 1 more per further 45 minutes.

transcript

get_transcript

Fetch the transcript of a public YouTube video. Accepts a full URL or an 11-character video ID. Defaults to Markdown (title + text), which is the most compact format for reading or summarizing. Use json for timestamped segments, srt/vtt for subtitle files. Costs 1 credit on success; videos without captions are AI-transcribed at 1 credit per started minute (paid plans and credit packs; Free reads captions only).

usage

get_usage

Show the remaining TranscriptYT credits and plan for this API key. Free.

youtube

search_youtube

Search YouTube for videos, or search within one channel by passing its link or @handle. Returns video IDs, titles, channels, durations, and view counts. Free on paid plans; Free plan: 10 a day, then 1 credit. Use get_transcript on the videos you need.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://transcript-yt.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	290 ms	5 min ago

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TranscriptYT — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can TranscriptYT do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_transcript, get_usage, list_languages, list_playlist_videos, search_youtube, summarize_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 TranscriptYT 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 311 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect TranscriptYT?

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 TranscriptYT need an API key?

No. TranscriptYT completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is TranscriptYT?

It answers our handshake in 311 ms on average, which is faster than 44% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.