Get the full text transcript of any YouTube video instantly
Fetches complete transcripts from YouTube videos as clean text. Supports any YouTube URL format or video ID, with optional language selection. No signup or API key required.
Try asking Muse: "Get the transcript of a YouTube video so I can search for a specific moment or read it instead of watching"
Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (ai.youtube-transcript/youtube-transcript) · First listed September 24, 2026
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Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Copy the request below and paste it into Muse. Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.
https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcpNot in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
YouTube Transcript AI is a remote MCP server, so any assistant that can add a custom connector by link can use it. Same link, same tools.
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https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcpResponse time at the last check: 131ms. Worked in 99.5% of checks over 30 days.
Screened, no issues found
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get_youtube_transcriptFetch the full text transcript of a YouTube video. Accepts a YouTube URL (watch, youtu.be, shorts, embed) or a bare 11-character video ID, and returns the transcript as plain text with title and metadata. Optionally pass a BCP-47 language code to select a specific caption track. search_youtube_videosSearch YouTube and return matching videos with channel, view count and duration. Use it first when researching a topic: run several differently-worded queries (and in more than one language), then read the best hits with get_youtube_transcript, find_in_transcript or get_transcripfind_in_transcriptFind where a video talks about something. Give one or more keywords and get back only the matching passages, each with a timestamp and a link that opens the video at that moment. Far cheaper than reading the whole transcript when you are looking for specific points. Matching is aget_transcripts_batchRead the transcripts of several videos in one call (up to 5, or 25 on the Ultra plan), each cut to a length you choose, so you can skim a set of search results without filling your context. Each video counts as one request against your daily quota. For the rest of a long video usget_video_detailsGet the facts about one video without its transcript: title, channel, views, length, publish date, which caption languages exist (human-made or auto-generated), the full description, and the chapter list with a link to each chapter. Use it to decide whether a video is worth readiget_transcript_sectionRead only part of a transcript, between two timestamps, e.g. one chapter of a long podcast or the ten minutes around a moment found with find_in_transcript. Much smaller than the full transcript.find_in_videosSearch several videos for the same keywords in one call and get back only the matching passages, grouped by video, plus which videos never mention them. Use it to check a set of search results or a channel's latest uploads for a topic without reading them all. Up to 5 videos per latest_from_channelsSee what several channels uploaded most recently, in one call: the newest videos of each channel, newest first. Use it as a watchlist ("anything new from these creators?"), then skim the new videos with get_transcripts_batch or check them for a topic with find_in_videos. Up to 5 get_video_commentsFetch the top comments of a YouTube video (YouTube's "top" ordering, replies not included), with like counts. Comments are where viewers report what worked for them, which makes them useful for checking claims made in the video.list_channel_videosList the latest videos of a YouTube channel or playlist, with view count and duration. Use it to follow a creator who looks credible, or to cover a playlist. Returns at most 50 videos per call; to go further, call again with offset set to the number of videos already read (the reget_account_statusShow the plan of the API key on this connection (Free or Pro), the daily request quota, how many requests were used today, how many remain, when the quota resets, and the per-call limits of the tools. Free: it does not use any quota. Call it before a large job to check the quota search_spoken_wordsSearch what people actually say inside YouTube videos. Full-text search over about 100 million spoken sentences from about 425,000 English-language videos (the ones users looked up on youtube-transcript.ai), with typically 1 to 8 million new sentences added every day. Returns matget_spoken_contextRead what was said around a moment in a video: the sentences before and after a timestamp. Use it after search_spoken_words to see what a matching sentence was part of, before you quote or rely on it. Works for videos in the library only.rank_videos_by_topicFind the videos that talk about something the most, ranked by how many sentences mention it. Better than searching titles when you want the videos that really go deep on a topic. Each result has the number of mentions, the first mention and a link. Read the best ones with get_yourank_channels_by_topicFind which channels talk about something the most, ranked by mentions, with how many of their videos mention it. Use it to find who covers a topic: creators to follow, experts, or partners. Same library, caption quirks and dates as search_spoken_words.spoken_mentions_over_timeCount how often something is mentioned over time, by day, week or month. Each period shows the mentions and the rate per million spoken sentences, so busy and quiet periods compare fairly. Use it to see whether a topic is rising or fading. The date is when we captured the captionhttps://youtube-transcript.ai/mcpNot in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use YouTube Transcript AI to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.
At the last check (November 13, 2026, 11:00 UTC) the endpoint was working, answering in 131ms. Over the last 7 days it answered 100% of health checks. It is checked every 15 minutes.
It was screened on September 24, 2026 with the result "screened, no issues found". Screening checks the domain against threat feeds and reads the tools for hidden instructions and requests for passwords or card numbers. It cannot see the server's code, so grant only the access you need.
It exposes 16 tools, including get_youtube_transcript, search_youtube_videos, find_in_transcript, get_transcripts_batch. For example, you could ask Muse: "Get the transcript of a YouTube video so I can search for a specific moment or read it instead of watching"
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