YouTube Transcript MCP
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| YT_DLP_PATH | No | Where yt-dlp lives, if it isn't on PATH | yt-dlp |
| GEMINI_API_KEY | No | AI Studio key. `GOOGLE_API_KEY` works too | |
| GOOGLE_API_KEY | No | AI Studio key. Works as an alternative to GEMINI_API_KEY. | |
| AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY | No | Vercel AI Gateway. Preferred, because `gemini-3.6-flash` resolves there | |
| YT_TRANSCRIPT_FLEX | No | Vercel's flex tier. Off because it ignores the thinking budget; see above | false |
| YT_TRANSCRIPT_MODEL | No | Which model transcribes. The gateway prefix is added for you | gemini-3.6-flash |
| YT_TRANSCRIPT_REPAIR | No | Repair auto-captions with a text call instead of re-transcribing | true |
| YT_TRANSCRIPT_TIMEOUT_MS | No | How long to wait on a model call | 600000 |
| YT_TRANSCRIPT_MAX_MINUTES | No | Longest video the paid path will accept | 180 |
| YT_TRANSCRIPT_MAX_PER_HOUR | No | Transcriptions per rolling hour. `0` removes the cap | 30 |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
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Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {} |
| logging | {} |
| completions | {} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| youtube_transcriptA | Get a YouTube video's transcript. Tries the video's own captions first (free, and most videos have them), then Gemini reading the URL (billed), then yt-dlp if installed. Returns the transcript plus which source produced it, so you can tell a human-written caption track from a machine transcription. Accepts any YouTube URL shape or a bare video id. |
| youtube_transcript_doctorA | Check what this server can actually do right now: which caption clients answer, whether a transcription key is configured, and whether yt-dlp is installed. Free, and makes one unauthenticated request to YouTube. |
| youtube_searchA | Search YouTube and filter the results on view count, how recently they were posted, video length, and the channel's subscriber count. Filters combine: a video about X with over 50,000 views, posted in the last month, from a channel with over 80,000 subscribers. Free, no API key. Returns video ids you can pass to youtube_transcript. |
| youtube_transcriptsA | Get transcripts for several videos in one call. Each one goes through the same chain as youtube_transcript: captions first, then Gemini, then yt-dlp. Videos are fetched in parallel and a failure on one does not stop the rest. Set allowPaid false to keep the whole batch free. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
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