AI and media

YouTube: tools for AI agents

Get YouTube transcripts, search videos and read channel data. The best matches among the MCP servers, command-line tools, web APIs and Claude Code plugins AptLynx checks every night, working ones first.

MCP servers

• Youtube Transcript And Youtube Search: get_video_info Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Get metadata for one YouTube video (title, channel, duration, views, thumbnails) plus the list of available transcript languages, WITHOUT downloading the…
• YouTube Transcripts, Search & Summaries Needs a sign-in or key
  YouTube transcripts, video search, chapters and extractive summaries. No YouTube API key, no LLM.
• Transcribetext Transcribe: get_youtube_transcript Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Get the transcript of a YouTube video from its link. Returns the captions YouTube has for the video (subtitles uploaded by the creator, or the auto-generated…
• Youtube Transcript And Youtube Search: get_youtube_transcript Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Use this when the user shares a YouTube video link or ID, or asks to summarize, explain, quote, translate, take notes on, or chat about a specific YouTube…
• Hasdata: hasdata_youtube_transcript_getYoutubeTranscript Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Get YouTube Video Transcript Returns the timed transcript (subtitles) of a YouTube video by its 11-character `videoId`. `languageCode` selects the track…
• youtube-media Verified publisher · Needs a sign-in or key
  Search YouTube, read video metadata, and fetch transcripts with language preferences
• Blobpedia: list_videos Working at last check
  Browse Celestia-related YouTube videos cached on this server, filtered by channel/date/transcript availability. Celestia-only cache — does NOT search YouTube…
• com.transcriptdock/mcp Verified publisher · Needs a sign-in or key
  YouTube and TikTok transcripts: get_video_transcript in one call, jobs, exports, video discovery.
• Openkrill Api: get_transcript Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Fetch the full transcript of a YouTube video URL or ID as plain text, timestamped segments, SRT or VTT, optionally in a chosen or translated language. Use…

Command-line tools

• youtubedr
  Download Youtube Video in Golang
• ytcast
  Cast YouTube videos to your smart TV from command-line
• youtube-dl
  Download videos from YouTube and other websites.
• yt-dlp-nightly
  A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. Download videos from YouTube and other websites. video download downloader media audio youtube…
• ydl-ui
  A UI for the command-line video downloader youtube-dl
• yt-dlp
  Feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader cross-platform video 视频 download 下载 downloader media audio open-source 音频 youtube 下载器

Web APIs

• YouTube Data API v3
  The YouTube Data API v3 is an API that provides access to YouTube data, such as videos, playlists, and channels. analytics media
• Video Search Client
  The Video Search API lets you search on Bing for video that are relevant to the user's search query, for insights about a video or for videos that are…
• YouTube Analytics API
  Retrieves your YouTube Analytics data. analytics media
• api.clarify.io
  The API to Search and Understand Audio & Video Data. search
• YouTube Reporting API
  Schedules reporting jobs containing your YouTube Analytics data and downloads the resulting bulk data reports in the form of CSV files. analytics media
• Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Media
  Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Media (amazonaws.com) cloud

Claude Code plugins

• brightdata-plugin
  Web scraping, Google search, structured data extraction, and MCP server integration powered by Bright Data. Includes 7 skills: scrape any webpage as markdown…
• session-report
  Generate an explorable HTML report of Claude Code session usage — tokens, cache efficiency, subagents, skills, and the most expensive prompts — from local…
• postiz
  Social media automation CLI for scheduling posts, managing integrations, uploading media, and tracking analytics across 28+ platforms including X, LinkedIn,…
• linq-alpha
  LinqAlpha financial research in Claude: guided setup for the LinqAlpha connector, capability-based source selection for fundamentals, estimates, transcripts,…

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