YouTube Transcript MCP server for AI agents and assistants

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with YouTube Transcript MCP or direct API to retrieve captions, store transcripts, check job status, and resolve playlist or channel video metadata through natural language.

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YouTube Transcript is a REST API for retrieving, storing, and reading YouTube video captions and transcript metadata. Use it to turn YouTube videos, playlists, and channels into searchable transcript data.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every YouTube Transcript action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Get Stored Transcript

Read a transcript already stored in the connected account without submitting new transcription work or consuming retrieval credits.

Get Video Transcript

Fetch captions for one YouTube video and store the resulting transcript in the connected account.

Get Video Transcript Job Status

Read one transcript job's current processing, completed, failed, or requires-ASR-confirmation state without creating work or waiting.

Get Video Transcripts Batch

Fetch and store captions for 1-10 YouTube videos.

Get Video Transcripts Batch Status

Read the current state and available per-video results for a transcript batch without creating work or waiting.

List Stored Transcripts

List and search transcripts already stored in the connected account, one bounded page at a time.

List Transcript Languages

List stored languages and YouTube translation target languages for one owned video transcript.

Resolve Channel Videos

Requires Basic or higher.

Resolve Playlist Videos

Requires Basic or higher.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect YouTube Transcript MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/mcp @ai-sdk/openai
Install the Composio SDK and your agent framework
2

Create a session with MCP enabled

typescript
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";

const composio = new Composio();
const { mcp } = await composio.create("your-user-id", {
  toolkits: ["youtube_transcript"],
  mcp: true,
});
Create a session scoped to YouTube Transcript and read its MCP URL and headers
3

Connect your agent to the MCP server

typescript
import { createMCPClient } from "@ai-sdk/mcp";
import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from "ai";

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: { type: "http", url: mcp.url, headers: mcp.headers },
});

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai("gpt-5.6-sol"),
  tools: await client.tools(),
  prompt: "Retrieve and store the English transcript for YouTube video dQw4w9WgXcQ, then summarize the key points",
  stopWhen: stepCountIs(10),
});

console.log(text);
await client.close();
Pass the session's MCP URL and headers to your agent and run a YouTube Transcript request
SETUP GUIDE

Connect YouTube Transcript API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core @composio/openai openai
Install the Composio SDK, the OpenAI provider, and the OpenAI SDK
2

Create a Composio session

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from "@composio/openai";

const composio = new Composio({ provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider() });
const client = new OpenAI();

const session = await composio.create("your-user-id", { toolkits: ["youtube_transcript"] });
const tools = await session.tools();
Initialize Composio with the OpenAI Responses provider and create a session scoped to YouTube Transcript
3

Run YouTube Transcript tools with your agent

typescript
let response = await client.responses.create({
  model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
  tools,
  input: [{ role: "user", content: "Retrieve and store the English transcript for YouTube video dQw4w9WgXcQ, then summarize the key points" }],
});

while (response.output.some((o) => o.type === "function_call")) {
  const outputs = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(session, response.output);
  response = await client.responses.create({
    model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
    tools,
    previous_response_id: response.id,
    input: outputs,
  });
}

console.log(response.output_text);
Send a request, execute the YouTube Transcript tool calls through the session, and print the final answer

Why Use Composio?

AI Native YouTube Transcript Integration

  • Supports both YouTube Transcript MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable caption and transcript workflows
  • Rich coverage for retrieving captions, storing transcripts, checking jobs, reading languages, and resolving playlist or channel video metadata

Managed Auth

  • Secure API key handling without hard-coding YouTube Transcript credentials in your agent code
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke YouTube Transcript access
  • Per user and per environment credentials, so your dev, staging, and production agents stay cleanly separated

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are designed so AI agents can clearly understand when to fetch captions, check batch status, or read stored transcripts
  • Reliable schemas help reduce messy tool calls when agents work with video IDs, playlist IDs, channel metadata, and transcript languages
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access YouTube Transcript
  • Scoped, least privilege access to transcript retrieval and stored caption data
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review, compliance, and debugging
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, YouTube Transcript requires you to configure your own API key credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and API request handling for you.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Yes. Composio is SOC 2 Type II compliant and is built to keep your YouTube Transcript connection and credentials secure. OAuth tokens and API keys are encrypted, and sensitive customer data is protected at rest and in transit.

Composio also undergoes independent security testing and continuously monitors its systems for security threats. You can review the latest reports and policies in the Composio Trust Center.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

Create the key in your YouTube Transcript account settings, then paste it once on Composio's connection page. Composio stores it encrypted and uses it only for the YouTube Transcript actions your agent runs. Nobody else in your workspace can read it, and you can revoke it inside YouTube Transcript at any time.

When you connect a YouTube Transcript account through Composio, every action runs under that account, so anything the agent creates, sends, or changes shows up in YouTube Transcript as done by you. Keep an approval step in your prompt for actions with side effects, such as sending or deleting, and have the agent draft first.

Whatever the credentials you connect allow inside YouTube Transcript. If YouTube Transcript lets you scope a key to specific permissions, create a scoped one so the agent can only do what you intend. You can revoke the key inside YouTube Transcript at any time.

Yes. Composio supports multiple connected accounts for the same app, and that works in Claude, ChatGPT, or any other assistant you connect through Composio. Give each YouTube Transcript connection a name such as work or personal, and the assistant uses the one you mention in the request. Each account keeps its own credentials and nothing is merged.

The connection stops working the moment YouTube Transcript rejects the old key. Create a new key in YouTube Transcript and reconnect the account from the Composio dashboard or by asking your agent to reconnect YouTube Transcript. Nothing else changes.

Composio's free Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month with no credit card, which covers most personal YouTube Transcript use. Paid plans add higher limits and team features. Your YouTube Transcript plan and its API limits still apply as usual.

Built-in connectors usually give one AI access to a limited set of apps. Many people use Composio because it lets their AI connect to more apps than it normally supports, or connect to multiple accounts for the same app (e.g. connect Claude to multiple YouTube Transcript accounts).

With Composio, you connect YouTube Transcript once and then use it across different AI assistants without setting it up separately in each one. Connect your apps to Composio once, then connect Composio to whichever AI you use, whether that's Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes, or your own custom assistant.

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