Vidskim: YouTube transcripts

com.vidskim由 vidskim.com 发布官方发布者v1.0.2更新于 Oct 31, 2026

Let AI assistants read YouTube: transcripts with clickable timestamps, chapters, search, channels.

已验证Streamable HTTP可网页运行网页搜索与抓取媒体与设计

概览

AI 生成的概览

托管式 MCP 服务器，让助手读取公开的 YouTube 视频：带可点击时间戳的完整字幕、章节、视频内搜索，以及频道和播放列表列表。

可以做什么
  • 获取 Markdown 格式的完整字幕，含章节和每段的可点击时间戳，长视频分段返回，可按时间范围单独读取，并支持机器翻译
  • 在单个视频内搜索某个主题的相关片段
  • 查询视频信息：标题、频道、日期、观看量、简介和章节
  • 按主题搜索 YouTube，并列出频道最新上传或播放列表中的视频
适用场景
适合让助手依据视频实际说出的内容作答，并给出可核对的时间戳；也适合在还没有链接时先找视频或查看频道上传。可用于研究、总结演讲或教程、引用具体片段。
运行要求
远程 Streamable HTTP 端点，无需安装，也不需要 API 密钥。通过 OAuth 2.1（含动态客户端注册）使用 Google 登录，并在客户端中作为自定义连接器或远程 MCP 服务器添加。仅支持带字幕的公开视频；免费方案每月 30 个视频。
安装前请注意
使用 Google 登录会授予该服务器 OAuth 授权，请确认允许的范围。所有工具均为只读，服务器不会发布内容或操作你的 YouTube 账号。字幕只包含语音，屏幕文字和幻灯片会缺失；无字幕、私享或会员专属视频只会返回提示而非内容。免费方案每月限 30 个视频。

安装

在 SourceWeft 中

  1. 打开 控制台中的 Vidskim: YouTube transcripts，将其添加到工作区。
  2. 连接 所需的 凭据。它们会被私密存储，绝不会在公开页面上展示。
  3. 为需要使用其工具的对话启用该服务。

Web executable，通过 Streamable HTTP。 远程服务在工作区中配置后即可从网页运行时运行。

交给智能体安装

把这段提示词粘贴到 Claude Code、Codex、Cursor 等智能体，或 SourceWeft 对话中。智能体会读取该服务器的安装指南，先向你展示发布者、端点和登录方式，经你同意后再把它添加到你的客户端。密钥不会写进任何命令。

阅读 https://sourceweft.com/mcp/com.vidskim%2Fyoutube/install.md，并按其中说明把这个 MCP 服务器接入我的客户端。修改任何配置之前，先告诉我它的发布者、端点和登录方式，等我确认。不要把 API 密钥写进命令或我会提交的文件；问我密钥应从哪里获取。

查看智能体所依据的安装指南

其他 MCP 客户端

把它添加到你客户端的 mcpServers 配置中。 客户端会在首次连接时完成 OAuth 登录。

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vidskim-youtube-transcripts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://vidskim.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

[Vidskim logo]

Vidskim: YouTube MCP server

A hosted Model Context Protocol server that lets Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and other MCP clients read YouTube videos. It returns full transcripts with chapters and a clickable timestamp on every paragraph, so the assistant answers from what was actually said and you can check each claim in one click.

https://vidskim.com/api/mcp

Remote server, Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration. Nothing to install, no API key: paste the URL and sign in with Google.

Website and docs: vidskim.com/mcp · Registry: com.vidskim/youtube · Listed in the Claude connector directory

Tools

ToolWhat it does
get_transcriptFull transcript in Markdown with chapters and a timestamp link on every paragraph. Long videos come in parts; any time range can be read on its own; YouTube's machine translation is available for other languages.
search_transcriptFinds the passages about a topic inside one video.
get_video_infoTitle, channel, date, views, description, and chapters.
search_youtubeFinds videos by topic when you don't have a link yet.
list_channel_videosA channel's latest uploads, or the videos in a playlist.

All tools are read-only. Vidskim never posts, comments, or touches your YouTube account.

Connect

Claude (claude.ai, Desktop, mobile)

Vidskim is listed in the Claude connector directory. Open claude.ai/directory/vidskim, click Connect to Claude, sign in with Google, and press Allow.

Or add it as a custom connector:

  1. Open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
  2. Name it Vidskim and paste https://vidskim.com/api/mcp.
  3. Click Connect, sign in with Google, and press Allow.

Tip: choose Always allow for the Vidskim tools the first time Claude asks, so long videos (which arrive in several parts) don't ask again for every part.

ChatGPT

  1. Open Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced and turn on Developer mode.
  2. Back in Apps & Connectors, click Create, name it Vidskim, paste the URL, and pick OAuth.
  3. Sign in with Google, press Allow, then turn Vidskim on in a chat from the + menu.

Claude Code

bash
claude mcp add --transport http vidskim https://vidskim.com/api/mcp

Then type /mcp inside Claude Code, pick vidskim, and sign in.

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "vidskim": { "url": "https://vidskim.com/api/mcp" }  }}

Cursor opens the sign-in the first time a tool runs.

VS Code

bash
code --add-mcp '{"name":"vidskim","type":"http","url":"https://vidskim.com/api/mcp"}'

Start the server from the MCP view and sign in when Copilot asks.

Any other MCP client

Add a remote MCP server with the Streamable HTTP transport and the URL above. Authentication is standard OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration.

Example

Explain how this video says a transformer works, in a few short points with timestamps: https://youtu.be/wjZofJX0v4M

  • A chatbot works by predicting a probability distribution for the next chunk of text, sampling from it, and repeating 2:01.
  • The input is split into tokens, and each token becomes a vector meant to encode its meaning 3:04.
  • In the attention block those vectors pass information to each other 4:05.

Limits

  • Works with public YouTube videos that have captions, uploaded or auto-generated, in any language. Videos with no captions, private, members-only, or removed videos return a clear message instead of a guess.
  • A transcript is speech only: slides and on-screen text are missing unless the speaker reads them out.
  • Free plan: 30 videos a month. Each video counts once, so follow-up questions and searches inside it don't use more.

Privacy and support

This repository holds the listing files for MCP directories (this README and server.json). The server itself is hosted at vidskim.com.

Vidskim is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube, Google, Anthropic, or OpenAI.

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  1. v1.0.2最新Oct 31, 2026
  2. v1.0.1Oct 29, 2026

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