Youtube Transcripts

io.github.fetchworks-devPublished by GitHub account fetchworks-devv0.1.1Updated Oct 27, 2026

YouTube transcripts for AI agents: videos, channels, playlists, search. Timestamps, SRT, VTT.

VerifiedSTDIODesktop onlyWeb Search & Scraping Media & Design

Server details

Identifier: io.github.fetchworks-dev/youtube-transcripts
Transport: STDIO
Runtime: Desktop only
Trust: Verified
Published: Sep 16, 2026

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Overview

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Fetches YouTube transcripts for videos, channels, playlists and searches, with timestamps and SRT/VTT output, for use by an AI assistant.

What you can do: Retrieve transcripts for individual YouTube videos
Pull transcripts across a channel, a playlist, or YouTube search results
Return transcripts with timestamps, or as SRT or VTT subtitles
When to use it: Useful when an assistant needs the spoken content of YouTube videos as text — summarizing videos, quoting passages with timestamps, building subtitle files, or gathering transcripts across a channel or playlist.
Requirements: Runs locally over stdio as the npm package fetchworks-mcp (Node.js). Requires an Apify account and an Apify API token supplied in the APIFY_TOKEN environment variable. Network access to Apify is needed.

Before you install

Transcript extraction is billed to your Apify account at $2 per 1,000 delivered transcripts, so usage costs money. The APIFY_TOKEN is a secret credential and should be kept out of shared configuration. Transcript requests are sent to Apify's hosted service.

Installation

In SourceWeft

Open Youtube Transcripts in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

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Version history

v0.1.1LatestSep 16, 2026

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