Transcriptor MCP server

Transcriptor is a helper that lets your AI assistant read videos for you. Instead of watching a long clip yourself, you paste the link and ask for a summary, the subtitles, or the details about who posted it. It is handy for anyone who deals with a lot of video links, like researchers, marketers, or students.

What this MCP server does

You paste a video link into your chat and ask a question. Your AI sends that link to the Transcriptor helper. The helper goes to the video platform, pulls out the captions, the metadata, or a single frame, and hands it back to your AI. Your AI then writes the answer for you, like a summary or a list of chapters. For very long videos, the text comes back in parts so nothing gets cut off.

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What you can do with it

• Summarize a video from its transcript
• Get the subtitles as a plain text or SRT file
• Check which languages a video has captions in
• See who published a video and how many views it has
• Jump to a chapter by asking about a topic
• Grab a single frame from a specific moment
• Pull transcripts from the first few videos in a playlist
• Search YouTube for recent videos about a topic

Try asking your AI

• “Summarize this video for me: [link]”
• “Give me the subtitles as an SRT file for this video”
• “Show me the screen at 4:12 in this video”
• “Get English transcripts for the first 5 videos in this playlist”

What it gives back to you

You get back text, lists, numbers, or an image, depending on what you asked. A summary comes back as a short paragraph in the chat. Subtitles come back as text or as a file you can save. Metadata comes back as a list of details like the channel name, view count, and upload date. A frame comes back as a picture in the chat.

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Who it's for

Anyone who works with a lot of video links, like content researchers, marketers, students, or journalists.