YouTube Transcript AI extracts video transcripts and subtitles from YouTube URLs, enabling AI agents to summarize videos, search spoken content, retrieve timestamps, and analyze educational videos, interviews, podcasts, and tutorials without watching them in full.
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Encrypted at rest, isolated from the model
Resolved from an AES-256-GCM vault at the moment of the call and attached to the request — the model never sees the secrets.
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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.
One endpoint, the same key, whichever client you use.
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (Mac) · %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows)
Replace API_KEY with your own key.
Already have an "mcpServers" section in your config? Just add the server entry inside it.
Any agentOne GatewayDiscovery, routing, credentials, tool scoping and execution logs all happen at the gateway→connections stay ACTIVE with no work from you
YouTube Transcript AI MCP runs through a gateway that holds the credentials, scopes the access and records every call.
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