format37-youtube-mcp
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.
- Score
- 80.3942 signals
- Evidence
- 32 stars · 5 forks
- Last commit
- as last read from GitHub; most reads are from 2 Sep 2026 or later
- Listed
Install
No one-command install. Set it up from its source.
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What it is
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.
When to use it
When an agent needs the "Search & Data Extraction" capability this MCP server exposes.
Source
Migrated from the awesome-mcp-servers navigation directory (category: Search & Data Extraction). See https://github.com/format37/youtube_mcp.