Importly MCP Server

Give your AI agent the ability to download, transcribe, and inspect any video or audio URL — YouTube, TikTok, X, podcasts, and 1000+ other sites.

Importly runs yt-dlp, rotating residential proxies, ffmpeg, and speech-to-text server-side, so your agent (and you) never deal with IP bans, 429s, cookie rot, or extractor breakage.

Tools

Jobs are async: submit tools return a jobId, check tools poll it. Responses tell the agent exactly what to do next.

Related MCP server: yt-dlp-mcp-server

Setup

1. Get an API key at importly.io — $3.00 in free credits, no card required.

2. Add the server to your MCP client:

Claude Code

claude mcp add importly -e IMPORTLY_API_KEY=your_key -- npx -y importly-mcp

Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline / Windsurf

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "importly": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "importly-mcp"],
      "env": { "IMPORTLY_API_KEY": "your_key" }
    }
  }
}

(Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json · Cursor: .cursor/mcp.json · Cline: MCP settings UI · Windsurf: ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json)

Example prompts

• "Transcribe this talk and summarize the key points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…"

• "Download the audio of this podcast episode and give me a link"

• "How long is this video and who uploaded it?"

Pricing

Usage-based credits (downloads ~$0.01/MB, transcription per media minute) — see pricing. New accounts get $3.00 free.

Docs & support

• Setup guide

• API docs

• support@importly.io

MIT licensed. The server is a thin wrapper over the Importly API.