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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.

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Quick Start

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/format37/youtube_mcp

Claude Desktop configuration example:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtubemcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "format37/youtube_mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Check the repository README for specific installation and configuration instructions.

Details

Category
Search & Data Extraction
Language
Python
Author
format37