YouTube Transcript MCP

---
name: youtube-transcript-mcp
category: osint-platforms
cost: free
api_key_required: no
repo: https://github.com/jkawamoto/mcp-youtube-transcript
paired_skills: ["youtube-investigation", "video-content-geolocation"]
capabilities: ["transcript-extraction", "video-metadata", "social-scrape"]
---

# YouTube Transcript MCP — captions, channel metadata, yt-dlp-backed

Pulls YouTube captions, video metadata, and channel information. Backed by yt-dlp for robust access.

## Install

```
uvx mcp-youtube-transcript
```

## Configuration

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-youtube-transcript"]
    }
  }
}
```

## What it adds

Claude pulls transcripts and metadata from YouTube videos mid-investigation — searching across a creator's entire library by keyword or named entity, extracting posting timestamps, pulling video descriptions and comment excerpts. Particularly valuable for geolocation workflows where the video's audio or on-screen text contains location references that the transcript makes searchable.

## Pairs with skills

- 057 `youtube-investigation`
- 016 `video-content-geolocation` (transcript-anchored geolocation)

## Cost

Free. No API key. Uses yt-dlp.