yt-transcript-mcp

Item: yt-transcript-mcp
Rating: 56
Author: M8ven

Fetches and cleans YouTube video transcripts using yt-dlp, with fallback from manual to auto-generated subtitles and deduplication.

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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 (line 41: subprocess.run(cmd_manual, check=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE))

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No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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commit: 6bb8961cc5889e18a8be02e49648a477d71f6911

code hash: 86f3425b2cf6cde46a42336bef4b99c486741560700d8e0482ef966565ac4372

verified: 6/23/2026, 10:17:45 AM

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