YouTube Transcript AI MCP Server

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YouTube Transcript AI is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 1 tools. Last commit 21 Jun 2026.

Fetch the full transcript of any YouTube video as clean text. No API key, no signup.

Uptime history 16 days of history

16 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

93 of 93 checks

Tools

read from the server

358 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 21 Jun 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check YouTube Transcript AI 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 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add youtube-transcript --transport http https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcript": {
      "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.youtube-transcript]
url = "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcript": {
      "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcript": {
      "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/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

get_youtube_transcript

Fetch the full text transcript of a YouTube video. Accepts a YouTube URL (watch, youtu.be, shorts, embed) or a bare 11-character video ID, and returns the transcript as plain text with title and metadata. Optionally pass a BCP-47 language code to select a specific caption track.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp	streamable-http	answering	309 ms	1 min ago

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YouTube Transcript Downloader

by youtubetranscriptdownload

Clean YouTube transcripts for agents: single videos, channels, playlists, plus AI caption cleanup.

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YouTube Transcript AI — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can YouTube Transcript AI do?

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

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 93 of 93 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 358 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect YouTube Transcript AI?

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 YouTube Transcript AI need an API key?

No. YouTube Transcript AI 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 YouTube Transcript AI?

It answers our handshake in 358 ms on average, which is faster than 46% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is YouTube Transcript AI open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.