This is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool for transcribing YouTube videos using the youtube-transcript-api.

• Extracts and transcribes from YouTube videos (manual or autogenerated). Enables retrieval of transcripts from YouTube videos.
• Exposes a single tool: transcribe_video(video: str).

• Python 3.12+
• Install dependencies:

  pip install -r requirements.txt

You can run the tool directly:

python youtube.py

To use this tool as an MCP server in VS Code, add the following to your .vscode/settings.json or your MCP client configuration:

"youtube_transcriptor": {
  "type": "stdio",
  "command": "python",
  "args": ["PATH\\transcription\\youtube.py"]
}

Replace PATH with the absolute path to your workspace root.

Once configured, you can call the transcribe_video tool from your MCP client or compatible VS Code extension, passing a YouTube video URL as the argument.

Example:

result = transcribe_video("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID")
print(result)

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