YouTube Transcript Server

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Fetch and format YouTube video transcripts to enable summarization or note-taking workflows.

• 2

  Extract timestamped dialogue from videos for search, citation, or content indexing.

• 3

  Transcripts in a specific language (when available) to feed into translation or multilingual analysis pipelines.

Description

This MCP server retrieves transcripts from YouTube videos given a video URL, supports selecting a language when available, and returns formatted output with timestamps. It includes basic error handling for invalid URLs and unavailable captions and is designed to be added to Claude MCP settings for easy use as a tool. The output is useful for downstream tasks like summarization, translation, or searching within video content.