# YouTube Transcript MCP

> YouTube Transcript MCP — fledgeling-co-yt-transcript-gemini-mcp. Use this tool when you need to extract text from YouTube videos, especially for accessibility, translation, or analysis purposes. It solves the problem of missing or broken captions by automatically falling back to AI-based transcription. The tool takes a YouTube video as input and outputs a transcript, making it ideal for use cases like content summarization, language translation, or video indexing.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/fledgeling-co-yt-transcript-gemini-mcp  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/fledgeling-co-yt-transcript-gemini-mcp

## Description

Fetches YouTube video transcripts, using free captions when available and falling back to Gemini-based transcription for missing or broken captions.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.69
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-29

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** social-media
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/o2ze2o7aw3)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/fledgeling-co/yt-transcript-gemini-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": "fledgeling-co-yt-transcript-gemini-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/fledgeling-co-yt-transcript-gemini-mcp` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/fledgeling-co-yt-transcript-gemini-mcp/pull`

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