TranscriptAPI — YouTube transcripts (transcriptapi.io)

YouTube transcripts, search, channels and playlists for AI agents, by transcriptapi.io.

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Works with Claude Code, VS Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop. Read the repository before you give any tool access to your data.

npx agentmarket install connector/transcriptapi-io-youtube-transcript

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Remote endpoint

https://api.transcriptapi.io/mcp Remote (HTTP)

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YouTube transcripts, search, channels and playlists for AI agents, by transcriptapi.io.

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Permissions

What this server can do and what it asks for, from its tool list and install config. Checked Oct 25, 2026.

Tools: 5 read · 0 write · 0 deleteRead-only
Secrets: 2 (API keys, tokens or passwords)
Install scripts: None found
Runs as: Node.js package

Tools by what they do 5

From the running server's own tool list (tools/list) on Oct 25, 2026.

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get_channel_videos
get_playlist_videos
get_youtube_transcript
search_channel_videos
search_youtube

Secrets and settings it asks for

Secrets: values you paste in that let it act as you.

Authorization
TRANSCRIPTAPI_KEY

Network hosts it talks to 1

api.transcriptapi.io · found in remote endpoint, install command

Tools (5)

As the server listed them on Oct 25, 2026. Descriptions are the server’s own words; hidden characters are shown as [U+…].

get_channel_videosList a channel's videosread-only
List the most recent uploads of a YouTube channel, newest first. Accepts a channel id (UC…), a handle (@name) or a channel URL. Returns ids, titles, durations, view counts and publish dates.
get_playlist_videosList a playlist's videosread-only
List the videos in a YouTube playlist, in playlist order. Accepts a playlist URL (anything with list=…) or the playlist id. Returns ids and titles for get_youtube_transcript.
get_youtube_transcriptGet YouTube transcriptread-only
Fetch the transcript (captions/subtitles) of a YouTube video as text. Accepts a watch URL, youtu.be link, Shorts link or bare 11-character video id. Returns the spoken text with timestamps grouped in ~30 s blocks by default; format 'text' is prose without timestamps, 'srt'/'vtt' are subtitle files, 'json' is raw segments with start/duration. Works with creator-uploaded and auto-generated captions. translate_to translates the transcript with AI (extra credits, scales with length) — omit unless asked.
search_channel_videosSearch within a channelread-only
Search for videos inside one YouTube channel by keyword — 'find the video where <channel> talks about <topic>'. Accepts a channel id, @handle or channel URL.
search_youtubeSearch YouTuberead-only
Search YouTube for videos by keyword. Returns video ids, titles, channel names, durations and view counts. Use a returned id with get_youtube_transcript to read it.

Signals

Last release: Oct 17, 2026 (14 days ago)

Details

Registry name: io.transcriptapi/youtube-transcript
Version: 0.1.1
Auth: Bearer token, API key
Packages: npm transcriptapi-mcp
License: License unknown
Website: transcriptapi.io/mcp
First seen: Oct 24, 2026
Last checked: Oct 24, 2026
Source: Official MCP Registry

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of 44,833 in Connectors

Score

0.579

Security 30%not yet
Popularity 25%0.30
Freshness 20%1.00
Rating 15%not yet
Docs 10%0.79

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100% uptime, last 30 days (1 check)

Last check: 6 days ago
Status: Up
Median response: 527 ms

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TranscriptAPI — YouTube transcripts (transcriptapi.io) MCP server. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/connectors/transcriptapi-io-youtube-transcript (last updated 2026-10-24)