get-youtube-video-transcript-mcp

This is an MCP server which grabs transcripts/subtitles as well as the title from YouTube videos using yt-dlp.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/Mizstik/get-youtube-video-transcript-mcp.git
cd get-youtube-video-transcript-mcp
npm install

Then grab the yt-dlp executable from https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases and place it in the cloned directory (where main.js is).

Starting with yt-dlp's 2025-11-12 release, you will also need to install Deno:

winget install deno

Then add the following to the MCP config of your LLM frontend:

"get-youtube-video-transcript-mcp": {
  "command": "node",
  "args": [
    "C:\\path\\to\\get-youtube-video-transcript-mcp\\main.js"
  ]
}

Afterward, any model trained on tool-calling can make use of the tool.