YouTube Transcript MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server that allows you to download subtitles from YouTube and connect them to a LLM. This is just a thin wrapper on the youtube-transcript-api package.

Features

• Download transcripts of YouTube videos
• Optionally include timestamps
• Works with any MCP-compatible client

Installation

Option 1: Using uv (Recommended)

Install uv is a fast Python package installer and resolver.

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

In your MCP client configuration:

The uvx command is provided by uv and allows you to run Python packages directly:

"mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["youtube-transcript-mcp"]
    },
}

Option 2: Using pip

If you prefer not to use uv, you can install using standard pip:

pip install youtube-transcript-mcp

In your MCP client configuration:

"mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "youtube_transcript_mcp"]
    },
}

License

MIT