get_youtube_transcript
Fetch the transcript for any YouTube video — as markdown (with metadata) or structured JSON. Drop the output straight into summarizers, search indexes, or AI pipelines.
How to use it
get_youtube_transcript is exposed by the Youtube MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the get_youtube_transcript tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
Install Youtube MCP
$
npx ajv-cli@5 validate --spec=draft2020 -s plugin.schema.json -d plugin.json