About Ytt MCP
Ytt MCP is an MCP server published by cottongeeks in the Content category: mCP server to fetch YouTube transcripts.
The repository has 74 stars and 4 forks, with the last commit a year ago. Six months or more without a commit doesn't mean the server is broken, but check the open issues before depending on it in production.
Install
git clone https://github.com/cottongeeks/ytt-mcpThis server has no ConduID identity, so agent calls to it are not receipted. Pin the version you install and review the source before granting it credentials.
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ytt-mcp: YouTube Transcript MCP Server
MCP Server to fetch transcripts for YouTube videos.
Installing and Running
The most convenient way to install and run is to use uv and then invoke the package using uvx
Using MCP Inspector (for development/debugging/testing only)
uv run fastmcp dev ytt_mcp.py
This will generate a localhost URL that can be used to examine and test out the server.
Claude Desktop
Go to Settings → Developer, and then click on Edit Config. This will open the claude-desktop-config.json file in your default editor. Make the following addition
{
"mcpServers": {
…<rest of the config>…
"ytt-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["ytt-mcp"]
}
}
}
Relaunch Claude config and try out the server as shown in the screenshot below
Raycast
If you are using Raycast, you can install the MCP server by invoking the Install Server command from the MCP extension.
After that you can refer to the MCP server as @youtube-transcript and interact with it. You can also use it in a Raycast AI Command with a prompt. For example, here is a prompt I use to extract and summarize a YouTube URL in the clipboard
@youtube-transcript fetch the Youtube transcript of the video: {clipboard | raw}
Comprehensively summarize the transcript with the following format:
"""
### Key Takeaways
- <EXACTLY three bullet points with the key takeaways, keep the bullet points as short as possible>
"""
### Theme Wise Breakdown
<divide the transcript into thematic sections and summarize each section comprehensively. reuse any existing section delimiters the article already has. If not add your own. keep the content of the breakdown in the same order as it appears in the webpage text.>
Some rules to follow precisely:
- ALWAYS capture the perspective and POV of the author
- NEVER come up with additional information
See video demo below
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e6530768-3483-4cb9-988a-7ec7a999d505
README fetched from the repository 3 hours ago. The original is authoritative.