# tubescribe-mcp

> MCP server for fetching YouTube video transcripts

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/tubescribe-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/retospect/tubescribe-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/retospect/tubescribe-mcp
- version: 0.1.1
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, subtitles, transcript, tubescribe, youtube
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:tubescribe-mcp

### Description (declared)

# tubescribe-mcp

MCP server for fetching [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/) video transcripts. Thin wrapper around [`youtube-transcript-api`](https://pypi.org/project/youtube-transcript-api/).

No API key required.

## Install

```bash
pip install tubescribe-mcp
```

## Usage

```bash
tubescribe-mcp
```

The server runs on stdio transport (MCP standard).

## Tools

**`get_transcript(video, languages?, timestamps?)`** — fetch a video transcript as plain text.

- `video` — YouTube URL or bare 11-char video ID
- `languages` — comma-separated preference codes, e.g. `"en,de"` (default: English)
- `timestamps` — prefix each line with `[MM:SS]` (default: false)

**`list_transcript_languages(video)`** — list available transcript languages for a video.

## Library

```python
from tubescribe_mcp.transcript import fetch_transcript, list_languages, extract_video_id

text = fetch_transcript("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ")
langs = list_languages("dQw4w9WgXcQ")
vid = extract_video_id("https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ")
```

## License

GPL-3.0-or-later

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- media.video-editing (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/tubescribe-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T14:23:27.321Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/tubescribe-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/tubescribe-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:tubescribe-mcp