YouTube Transcript AI MCP server

YouTube Transcript AI is a remote MCP server that gives an AI agent 1 tool, among them get_youtube_transcript. It answers at https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 10 of 10 times since 4 September 2026; the last check, on 17 October 2026, succeeded.

YouTube transcripts plus topic research: search videos, find passages, read comments. Free API key.

Description as the publisher wrote it.

The 1 tool YouTube Transcript AI offers

Add YouTube Transcript AI to your AI client

Every block below points at https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp. Pick your client and copy.

claude mcp add --transport http youtube-transcript-ai https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcript-ai": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcript-ai": {
      "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "youtube-transcript-ai": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "context_servers": {
    "youtube-transcript-ai": {
      "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcript-ai": {
      "serverUrl": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcript-ai": {
      "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

name: YouTube Transcript AI
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
  - name: YouTube Transcript AI
    type: streamable-http
    url: https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcript-ai": {
      "httpUrl": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcript-ai": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-transcript-ai": {
      "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube-transcript.ai%2Fmcp&type=streamable_http&id=youtube-transcript-ai&name=YouTube%20Transcript%20AI

Is YouTube Transcript AI up right now?

It answered our last check on 17 October 2026 in 355 ms. Over 10 checks since 4 September 2026 it answered 10. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.

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Questions about YouTube Transcript AI

Is there an official YouTube Transcript AI MCP server?

Yes. It is published by youtube-transcript.ai and served from youtube-transcript.ai, the vendor's own domain: https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp.

How many tools does YouTube Transcript AI have?

1, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 9 September 2026: get_youtube_transcript.

Is YouTube Transcript AI down?

It answered our last check on 17 October 2026 in 355 ms. Over 10 checks since 4 September 2026 it answered 10.

How do I add YouTube Transcript AI to Cursor?

Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.

Does YouTube Transcript AI need an API key?

It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.

Where this comes from

Publisher: ai.youtube-transcript. Endpoint host: youtube-transcript.ai. ARD identifier: urn:air:ai.youtube-transcript:mcp:youtube-transcript. First indexed 31 August 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.