Overview
GetYouTubeTranscript turns YouTube videos into text, three ways: a free web tool, a Chrome extension, and a developer API with a remote MCP server.
Features
- Free web tool: paste a YouTube link and get the full transcript in seconds. No sign-up. Copy, download, translate or summarize it with AI.
- Chrome extension: shows the transcript next to the video on YouTube, synced to playback, and lets you ask AI questions about the video.
- REST API: transcripts with title, channel, thumbnail and word count, plus YouTube search, playlist videos and channel ID lookups. No Google API key needed.
- MCP server: lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other assistants read YouTube videos directly.
- n8n node: use transcripts in no-code automations.
Pricing
The web tool is free. The API has a free plan with 100 credits (no card) and paid plans from $5/month for 1,000 credits.
Use cases
- Study notes and summaries from lectures and tutorials
- Repurposing videos into blog posts and social content
- Research and quote extraction
- Feeding video content to AI agents and RAG pipelines
