YouTube Transcript AI is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server: Fetch the full transcript of any YouTube video as clean text. No API key, no signup. Because it speaks the Model Context Protocol, AI assistants can use YouTube Transcript AI as a set of callable tools instead of you copy-pasting between apps.
It's a hosted (remote) server — point your client at https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp and you're connected, with nothing to install locally. The current release is v1.0.0, published under the MIT license, with source at zxl777/youtube-transcript-mcp on GitHub.
On mcp.site, YouTube Transcript AI sits in the AI & Agents category. Any MCP client can use it — Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed among them — via the install snippets below. If you maintain YouTube Transcript AI for youtube-transcript.ai, claim this listing to verify ownership, earn the Verified badge, and keep the details current.