get_youtube_transcript
Get the transcript of a YouTube video
LABSCO SUMMARY
One job, no setup.
It does exactly one thing — pull a video's transcript — and needs no account or key to do it. Reach for it when you want an assistant to work from what a video says rather than sitting through it; anything more involved than fetching the text is out of scope by design.
What it is
A single-purpose server that fetches transcripts for YouTube videos. One tool, get_youtube_transcript, run over stdio.
What you get
- get_youtube_transcript returns the transcript of a YouTube video, so an assistant can summarise, quote or answer questions from the spoken content
Requirements
The uv package manager; run it with uvx ytt-mcp. Nothing to sign up for.
Setup effort
One command — uvx ytt-mcp
USE CASES
01
Summarising a video without watching it
Hand it a YouTube URL and get the transcript back, so the assistant can condense a long talk or tutorial into the points that matter.
02
Pulling a quote or fact from a video
Fetch the transcript to find and cite the exact line where something was said, instead of scrubbing through the timeline.
1 tool
Counted once with only startup setup. Other versions, modes or optional credentials may expose a different list.
BEFORE YOU INSTALL
What to know first
Tools you get
1 tool when we connected.
Requires
uvx on PATH
CONTEXT COST
Light Standing cost
Rated by the size of the one tool definition that rides along on every turn
INSTALLATION
Connect your client
Add the block to your client, or run the command directly.
Server setup
Configuration file
JSON
{
"mcpServers": {
"ytt-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"ytt-mcp"
]
}
}
}uvx
TERMINAL
uvx ytt-mcp
