io.github.fbetteo/youtube-transcripts
YouTube Transcripts
Is the YouTube Transcripts MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-10-26.
Transcripts from YouTube videos, whole channels and playlists for AI agents, with bulk ZIP export.
alive probed 2026-11-15 · unchanged since 2026-10-26 · HTTP 200
- Endpoint
- https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp (streamable-http)
- Host
- api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com
- Protocol
- 2025-06-18
- Reports itself as
- youtube-transcript-agent 1.0.0
- Capabilities
- tools
- Instructions
- none
- Of a 1M window
- 0.1 % of a 1M context window
- Count
- 1.2k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-16. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 1.3k. The o200k_base estimate is 623. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
- Repository
- https://github.com/fbetteo/youtube-channel-to-gpt
- Website
- https://downloadyoutubetranscripts.com/use-with-agents
- Registry
- active, updated 2026-10-15 · registry entry
Most expensive tools
The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.95×.
| Tool | ≈ Claude tokens | o200k estimate | Share of this server |
|---|---|---|---|
| list_channel_videos | 245 | 126 | 20 % |
| start_channel_job | 191 | 98 | 16 % |
| start_playlist_job | 191 | 98 | 16 % |
| get_transcript | 154 | 79 | 13 % |
| get_channel_info | 111 | 57 | 9 % |
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