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Youtube

MCP server that transcribes YouTube videos to text. Uses yt-dlp to download audio and OpenAI's Whisper-1 for more precise transcription than youtube captions. Provide a YouTube URL and get back the full transcript splitted by chunks for long videos.

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Installation

npx -y youtube_mcp

Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube_mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "youtube_mcp"]
    }
  }
}

How to use

  1. Run the installation command above (if needed)
  2. Open your Claude Code settings file (~/.claude/settings.json)
  3. Add the configuration to the mcpServers section
  4. Restart Claude Code to apply changes
View source on GitHub