YouTube Transcript MCP — tool skill for research & trends

For AI agents: find the right skill in one call — curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>" returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add .md to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

Transcripts of any YouTube video for the agent: hooks, scripts, lyrics timing.

• Type: Tool · Research & trends
• Slug: youtube-transcript-mcp
• Status: live
• Publisher: Junpei Kawamoto (community)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/jkawamoto/mcp-youtube-transcript
• Works in: Claude Code, Claude.ai, Cursor, Any MCP client
• Requires: uv
• Adoption: 492 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-26)

What it does

A small MCP server that fetches YouTube transcripts. Use it with the teardown guide to read what is said in the first three seconds of top videos, or to line up lyrics against timestamps.

Use when

• Read the hook of a top video
• Pull a script to restructure

Install

• Any MCP client: uvx --from git+https://github.com/jkawamoto/mcp-youtube-transcript mcp-youtube-transcript

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