get_transcripts

Extract transcripts from YouTube videos by providing the video URL or ID. Specify optional language codes for multilingual transcripts or enable paragraph breaks for easier reading. Ideal for content analysis, subtitles, and processing tasks.

Instructions

Extract and process transcripts from a YouTube video.

Parameters:

url (string, required): YouTube video URL or ID.
lang (string, optional, default 'en'): Language code for transcripts (e.g. 'en', 'uk', 'ja', 'ru', 'zh').
enableParagraphs (boolean, optional, default false): Enable automatic paragraph breaks.

IMPORTANT: If the user does not specify a language code, DO NOT include the lang parameter in the tool call. Do not guess the language or use parts of the user query as the language code.

Input Schema

Name	Required	Description	Default
`enableParagraphs`	No	Enable automatic paragraph breaks, default `false`
`lang`	No	Language code for transcripts, default 'en' (e.g. 'en', 'uk', 'ja', 'ru', 'zh')	en
`url`	Yes	YouTube video URL or ID

Input Schema (JSON Schema)

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "enableParagraphs": {
      "default": false,
      "description": "Enable automatic paragraph breaks, default `false`",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "lang": {
      "default": "en",
      "description": "Language code for transcripts, default 'en' (e.g. 'en', 'uk', 'ja', 'ru', 'zh')",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "url": {
      "description": "YouTube video URL or ID",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "url"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

mcp-youtube-transcript

get_transcripts

Instructions

Input Schema

Input Schema (JSON Schema)

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