YouTube Transcript Extractor

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Extract full, timestamped transcripts from public YouTube videos by URL for summarization or content analysis.

• 2

  Integrate YouTube transcript retrieval into Cursor or Claude Desktop via an MCP command server for seamless automation.

• 3

  Convert video captions into searchable text for downstream tasks like topic extraction, Q&A, note-taking, or indexing.

Description

This MCP server provides a simple command-style interface for AI assistants to fetch transcripts from public YouTube videos. It's built with TypeScript and uses the Model Context Protocol SDK and the youtube-transcript package for reliable caption extraction. The project is designed for easy integration with Cursor and Claude Desktop and is intended to streamline workflows that need video text for summarization, Q&A, or indexing. Setup is straightforward and requires only Node.js and the provided configuration instructions.