fetch_youtube_transcript

MCP tool from Fetch MCP by zcaceres

Fetch a YouTube video's captions/transcript. Uses yt-dlp if available, otherwise extracts directly from the page. Accepts an additional lang parameter (default: "en") to select the caption language.

How to use it

fetch_youtube_transcript is exposed by the Fetch MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the fetch_youtube_transcript tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

Install Fetch MCP

$npx mcp-fetch <command> <url> [flags]

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Other tools in Fetch MCP (10)

fetch_html

Fetch a website and return its raw HTML content.

fetch_json

Fetch a URL and return the JSON response.

fetch_markdown

Fetch a website and return its content converted to Markdown.

fetch_readable

Fetch a website and extract the main article content using Mozilla Readability, returned as Markdown. Strips navigation, ads, and boilerplate. Ideal for articles and blog posts.

fetch_txt

Fetch a website and return plain text with HTML tags, scripts, and styles removed.

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