get-video-info-for-summary-from-url
Get details or explanation about a YouTube video, get captions or subtitles of Youtube video from a URL
LABSCO SUMMARY
A twenty-minute video becomes text you can quote in one call.
What comes back is the caption track rather than a finished summary, so the reading and the condensing are done by the model you are already talking to — which also means you can ask it for a timeline, a quote or an argument instead of whatever summary shape a vendor chose. One tool, one URL, and a language code when the default track is not the one you want.
What it is
A single-tool server that takes a YouTube URL and an optional language code and returns the video's details together with its captions.
What you get
- Details about a YouTube video identified by its URL
- That video's captions or subtitles, in the language you request with languageCode
Requirements
npx on your PATH. No account, no key.
Setup effort
One command — npx -y youtube-video-summarizer-mcp
USE CASES
01
Answering questions about a talk you have not watched
Hand over the URL and the captions come back as text, so the conversation can quote what was said, pull out the argument, or find the two minutes that actually matter.
02
Reading a video published in another language
The same call takes a languageCode, so a talk with translated caption tracks can be pulled in the language you read rather than the one it was delivered in.
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
npx 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": {
"youtube-video-summarizer-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"youtube-video-summarizer-mcp"
]
}
}
}npx
TERMINAL
npx -y youtube-video-summarizer-mcp
