# YouTube Transcripts (remote · api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com)

Transcripts from YouTube videos, whole channels and playlists for AI agents, with bulk ZIP export.

- Trust score: 81/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com`: 81/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/fbetteo-youtube-transcripts/api.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/fbetteo-youtube-transcripts/api)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `required (not validated)`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 83/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation is enforced on tool calls, but the challenge carries no valid RFC 9728 metadata, so a client cannot discover where to get a token.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 70/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 388 tokens (~48/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 70/100
  - Stability observed for 21 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 92/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 75% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 8 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 8 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the YouTube Transcripts MCP server?

YouTube Transcripts is a hosted endpoint at https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http fbetteo-youtube-transcripts 'https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fbetteo-youtube-transcripts": {
      "url": "https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "fbetteo-youtube-transcripts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.fbetteo-youtube-transcripts]
url = "https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "fbetteo-youtube-transcripts": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add fbetteo-youtube-transcripts --url 'https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  fbetteo-youtube-transcripts:
    url: "https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "fbetteo-youtube-transcripts": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add fbetteo-youtube-transcripts -t streamable-http -u 'https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fbetteo-youtube-transcripts": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 81, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 20 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-30 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 47 to 50. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 14 days of observed history at the previous scan, 15 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-28 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 40 to 43. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 12 days of observed history at the previous scan, 13 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-26 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-24 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-22 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-20 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (8)

### `get_transcript` (~49 tokens)

Return the transcript for a single YouTube video URL or ID.

Input parameters:

- `include_timestamps` (boolean): Include transcript timestamps.
- `video_url` (string, required): YouTube video URL or video ID.

### `get_channel_info` (~34 tokens)

Return metadata for a YouTube channel before starting a job.

Input parameters:

- `channel` (string, required): Handle, name, or ID.

### `list_channel_videos` (~88 tokens)

List a YouTube channel's videos with duration metadata, in the order channel jobs use (long-form, then Shorts, then livestreams; newest first). limit=N previews what start_channel_job with max_videos=N downloads; has_more tells if the channel has more.

Input parameters:

- `channel` (string, required): Handle, name, or ID.
- `limit` (integer): Maximum videos to return.

### `start_channel_job` (~62 tokens)

Start an async job that downloads channel transcripts.

Input parameters:

- `channel` (string, required): Handle, name, or ID.
- `concatenate_all` (boolean)
- `include_timestamps` (boolean)
- `max_videos` (integer): Optional maximum videos to process.

### `start_playlist_job` (~62 tokens)

Start an async job that downloads playlist transcripts.

Input parameters:

- `concatenate_all` (boolean)
- `include_timestamps` (boolean)
- `max_videos` (integer): Optional maximum videos to process.
- `playlist` (string, required): YouTube playlist URL or ID.

### `get_job_status` (~33 tokens)

Poll an async transcript job and get a download URL when ready.

Input parameters:

- `job_id` (string, required): Transcript job ID.

### `get_download_url` (~30 tokens)

Return the ZIP download URL for a completed job.

Input parameters:

- `job_id` (string, required): Transcript job ID.

### `cancel_job` (~30 tokens)

Cancel an async transcript job and refund unprocessed videos.

Input parameters:

- `job_id` (string, required): Transcript job ID.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/fbetteo-youtube-transcripts/api#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 81
- 2026-11-04: 81
- 2026-11-03: 80
- 2026-11-02: 80
- 2026-11-01: 80
- 2026-10-31: 79
- 2026-10-30: 79
- 2026-10-29: 78
- 2026-10-28: 78
- 2026-10-27: 77
- 2026-10-26: 77
- 2026-10-25: 76
- 2026-10-24: 76
- 2026-10-23: 75
- 2026-10-22: 75
- 2026-10-21: 74
- 2026-10-20: 74
- 2026-10-19: 73
- 2026-10-18: 73
- 2026-10-17: 73
- 2026-10-16: 72
- 2026-10-15: 72

## Common questions

### What is the YouTube Transcripts MCP server?

YouTube Transcripts is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.fbetteo/youtube-transcripts. Transcripts from YouTube videos, whole channels and playlists for AI agents, with bulk ZIP export. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp).

### Is the YouTube Transcripts MCP server safe to use?

YouTube Transcripts scores 81 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the YouTube Transcripts MCP server expose?

YouTube Transcripts exposes 8 tools: get_transcript, get_channel_info, list_channel_videos, start_channel_job, start_playlist_job, and 3 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 388 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the YouTube Transcripts MCP server require authentication?

Yes. YouTube Transcripts asked us for credentials when we connected, so you will need to authorise it in your MCP client before it can do anything.

### Is the YouTube Transcripts MCP server still maintained?

YouTube Transcripts is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/mcp
- Authorisation metadata: https://api.youtubetranscripts.fbetteo.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/fbetteo/youtube-channel-to-gpt
- Website: https://downloadyoutubetranscripts.com/use-with-agents
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/fbetteo-youtube-transcripts/api.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/fbetteo-youtube-transcripts/api.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/fbetteo-youtube-transcripts/api