# YouTube Translate

> Use this tool when you need to access and analyze YouTube video content in multiple languages, or provide multilingual accessibility features. It solves problems related to content analysis, research, and video accessibility by providing transcripts, translations, and summaries through a simple API interface. The tool takes a YouTube video ID and API key as input and outputs transcripts, translations, subtitles, and summaries in various formats.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/brianshin22-youtube-translate  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/brianshin22-youtube-translate

## Description

YouTube Translate MCP server enables AI assistants to access YouTube video transcripts, translations, and summaries through a simple API interface. Built by Brian Shin, it provides tools to retrieve transcripts, translate content to different languages, generate subtitles in SRT or VTT format, create video summaries, and search for specific content within videos. The implementation requires a YouTube Translate API key for authentication and can be run locally using stdio transport or deployed as a Docker container with SSE transport, making it ideal for research, content analysis, and multilingual video accessibility workflows.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.65
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-02

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** cloud-infra
- **Updated:** 2026-09-02

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/brianshin22-youtube-translate)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/brianshin22/youtube-translate-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "brianshin22-youtube-translate"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/brianshin22-youtube-translate` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/brianshin22-youtube-translate/pull`

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