YouTube Summarize MCP server

This is a small helper that lets your AI read YouTube videos for you. You give it a video link, and it fetches the words spoken in the video so your AI can summarize them or answer questions about them. It is handy if you often deal with long talks, tutorials, or interviews and would rather skim the text.

What this MCP server does

You paste a YouTube link into your chat and ask for a summary or the transcript. Your AI passes that link to this helper. The helper goes to YouTube, finds the captions for that video, and pulls them back as text. It can also grab basic facts like the title, channel, upload date, and view count. Then your AI reads all of that and gives you a summary or answers your questions in the chat.

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What you can do with it

• Get the full transcript of a YouTube video as plain text
• Summarize a long video so you can skim it in a minute
• Fetch video details like title, channel, duration, and views
• List every video in a public playlist
• Search YouTube and get a clean list of results
• Check which caption languages are available for a video
• Get transcripts in a specific language, like Spanish or German

Try asking your AI

• “Summarize this YouTube video for me: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ”
• “Get the transcript of this talk with timestamps so I can find the part about pricing”
• “What are the main points of this tutorial video? Here is the link”
• “List the videos in this playlist and sort them by view count”

What it gives back to you

You get text back in the chat. For a transcript, that is the spoken words, sometimes with timestamps like [00:12:34] at the start of each line. For a summary, you get a short write-up your AI made from the transcript. For metadata, you get a small block with the title, channel, upload date, duration, and views.

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Who it's for

Anyone who watches or researches YouTube for work, like marketers, students, journalists, and analysts who want the gist of a video without sitting through it.