YouTube Transcript MCP for AI Agents

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/openai @ai-sdk/mcp
Install the Composio SDK for Python or TypeScript
2

Initialize Client and Create Tool Router Session

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

const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: 'your-api-key' });
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
console.log(`Tool Router session created: ${session.mcp.url}`);
Import and initialize the Composio client, then create a Tool Router session for YouTube Transcript
3

Connect to AI Agent

typescript
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
import { experimental_createMCPClient as createMCPClient } from '@ai-sdk/mcp';
import { generateText } from 'ai';

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: {
    type: 'http',
    url: session.mcp.url,
    headers: {
      'x-api-key': 'your-composio-api-key',
    },
  },
});

const tools = await client.tools();
const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai('gpt-4o'),
  tools,
  messages: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: 'Retrieve and store the English transcript for YouTube video dQw4w9WgXcQ, then summarize the key points'
  }],
  maxSteps: 5,
});

console.log(`Agent: ${text}`);
Use the MCP server with your AI agent (Anthropic Claude or Mastra)
SETUP GUIDE

Connect YouTube Transcript API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/openai
Install the Composio SDK
2

Initialize Composio and Create Tool Router Session

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

const composio = new Composio({
  provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider(),
});
const openai = new OpenAI({});
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
Import and initialize Composio client, then create a Tool Router session
3

Execute YouTube Transcript Tools via Tool Router with Your Agent

typescript
const tools = session.tools;
const response = await openai.responses.create({
  model: 'gpt-4.1',
  tools: tools,
  input: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: 'Retrieve and store the English transcript for YouTube video dQw4w9WgXcQ, then summarize the key points'
  }],
});
const result = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(
  'your-user-id',
  response.output
);
console.log(result);
Get tools from Tool Router session and execute YouTube Transcript actions with your Agent

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.

Composio is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant with all data encrypted in transit and at rest. Learn more.

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

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