Show HN: YouTube MCP – let your AI agent search YouTube for research
TranscriptAPI MCP offers a comprehensive toolkit for AI agents to interact with YouTube, including features like transcript retrieval and video search. It processes over 15 million transcripts monthly and is designed for seamless integration with various AI platforms. Users can easily set up the service with a free account and API key for enhanced YouTube content analysis.
- ▪TranscriptAPI MCP provides six tools for AI agents, including transcripts and video search.
- ▪It processes over 15 million transcripts each month and has a median response time of 49 milliseconds.
- ▪The service is compatible with multiple AI platforms, allowing for easy integration and use.
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YouTube Transcript + YouTube Search MCP for AI Agents The fastest YouTube transcript + YouTube search MCP for AI agents. Try for free. Six tools — transcripts, video search, channel browsing, in-channel search, playlist extraction, and new-upload polling — for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, and 20+ clients. Powering 15M+ transcripts every month · 500K+ transcripts processed daily · 49ms median response time Trusted in production by youtubetotranscript.com (~11M/mo) and recapio.com (~2.8M/mo). Why TranscriptAPI MCP Most YouTube MCP servers do one thing — pull a single transcript.
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