mcp-youtube-transcript

Item: mcp-youtube-transcript
Rating: 35
Author: M8ven

Extracts YouTube transcripts and performs AI-powered video analysis for Claude Desktop, enabling transcript retrieval, quality analysis, and smart resource management.

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// key findings

⚠️

Tool descriptions don’t match what handlers do

1 tool describes read intent but its handler mutates — get_youtube_transcript_ytdlp (line 583: shutil.rmtree(temp_dir))

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

🔐

You'll be asked for 2 credentials: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

🔐 secretANTHROPIC_API_KEY

🔐 secretOPENAI_API_KEY

configYT_DEFAULT_LANG

configYT_MAX_COMMENTS

configYT_COMMENT_SORT

configYT_ENABLE_REPLIES

configYT_MAX_REPLIES

configYT_OUTPUT_DIR

configYT_TIMEOUT

configYT_AGGRESSIVE_DEDUP

configLOG_LEVEL

configCACHE_SIZE

configDEFAULT_LANGUAGE

configMAX_OUTPUT_CHARS

configENABLE_SMART_TRUNCATION

configAGGRESSIVE_DEDUP

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commit: d87fa95ebe245ef92fe7255f2ae859f964e4fb68

code hash: c66abc32b9618badea93e1355187fa01cd664b1de734deaeca2aa7de0e6ca5da

verified: 6/23/2026, 10:20:26 AM

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