linkscribe

Hand linkscribe a link and get words back. linkscribe talks to a txscribe account: paste a link to a recording — a YouTube video, a Google Drive file, a Dropbox share — and the service transcribes it (the recording itself is transcribed in place, never downloaded). From there you can read the finished transcript in the format you need, ask for a summary, search every recording for the moment a word or phrase was said, and clean up recordings you no longer want.

The eight tools:

• list_transcriptions — your transcriptions, newest first, with limit / cursor paging and an optional status filter.

• search_transcriptions — search what was said, not titles: up to five matches per recording, each with the second it starts at.

• transcribe_link — create a transcription from a link (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X (Twitter), Facebook, Vimeo, Loom, Dropbox). Optional language ("auto" or a code such as en-US), diarization, and captions (YouTube only: use the video's own captions when they fit). Uses your minutes.

• get_transcription — status and metadata of one transcription.

• get_transcript — the finished transcript as json (segments, word timings, speakers), txt, docx, pdf, srt, vtt, fcpxml, premiere, nvivo, maxqda, or atlasti; optional timestamps and speakers, and from / to in seconds to return only the paragraphs around a moment.

• get_summary — the summary and its status.

• request_summary — ask for a summary, or a new one, in an output language and for a kind of recording (scene, e.g. meeting, interview, lecture; omit to let the model choose).

• delete_transcription — delete a transcription and everything made from it. Cannot be undone.

Every call is made with your own txscribe API key:

export TXSCRIBE_API_KEY="txs_live_…"   # sent as Authorization: Bearer <key>
# optional: export TXSCRIBE_API_BASE="https://txscribe.ai/api/v1"

With TXSCRIBE_API_KEY unset the server still starts and lists its tools, but every tool call fails with TXSCRIBE_API_KEY is not set and no request is made. On success a tool returns the upstream JSON body verbatim. An upstream error surfaces as txscribe error: <code> (HTTP <status>) when the error body carries a code, otherwise txscribe error: HTTP <status>; an unreachable service surfaces as txscribe unreachable.

Not built, by design: the REST webhooks endpoints and the file-upload flow are not MCP tools in the original service, so linkscribe does not expose them either. The README of the original also mentions a summaryOnly flag for get_transcript; it does not exist in the published OpenAPI document, so it is not exposed here.

CLI

Each tool is a subcommand taking one JSON argument string:

npx @reneturcios/linkscribe list_transcriptions '{"limit":10}'
npx @reneturcios/linkscribe search_transcriptions '{"q":"budget"}'
npx @reneturcios/linkscribe transcribe_link '{"url":"https://youtu.be/…","diarization":true}'
npx @reneturcios/linkscribe get_transcript '{"id":"<id>","format":"srt"}'
npx @reneturcios/linkscribe request_summary '{"id":"<id>","scene":"meeting"}'
npx @reneturcios/linkscribe --version

Output is the tool's result text. Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 on a runtime error (including a validation or txscribe failure), 2 on a usage error.

Related MCP server: @scriptivox/mcp-server

MCP server

npx -y @reneturcios/linkscribe mcp

MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linkscribe": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/linkscribe", "mcp"],
      "env": {
        "TXSCRIBE_API_KEY": "txs_live_…"
      }
    }
  }
}

Docker

docker run -i -e TXSCRIBE_API_KEY="txs_live_…" ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/linkscribe
docker run --rm -e TXSCRIBE_API_KEY="txs_live_…" ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/linkscribe list_transcriptions '{}'

Development

npm install
npm run build   # tsc -> dist/
npm test        # tsx --test test/*.test.ts (fake fetch only, no network)
npm run dev     # run the CLI from source

License

MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 Rene Turcios