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Vidskim: YouTube transcripts

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Let AI assistants read YouTube: transcripts with clickable timestamps, chapters, search, channels.

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Installation

Ajoutez ceci à la configuration MCP de votre client (Claude Desktop : claude_desktop_config.json ; Cursor : .cursor/mcp.json ; VS Code et les autres utilisent la même forme « mcpServers »).

Remote (streamable-http)
Claude Code 
claude mcp add --transport http vidskim-youtube-transcripts 'https://vidskim.com/api/mcp'
Configuration JSON (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code) 
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "vidskim-youtube-transcripts": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://vidskim.com/api/mcp"
        }
    }
}

Documentation

Tirée du README du projet sur GitHub, actualisée chaque semaine. Les liens ouvrent GitHub.

Sommaire
  1. Vidskim: YouTube MCP server
  2. Tools
  3. Connect
  4. Example
  5. Limits
  6. Privacy and support

Vidskim: YouTube MCP server

A hosted Model Context Protocol server that lets Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and other MCP clients read YouTube videos. It returns full transcripts with chapters and a clickable timestamp on every paragraph, so the assistant answers from what was actually said and you can check each claim in one click.

https://vidskim.com/api/mcp

Remote server, Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration. Nothing to install, no API key: paste the URL and sign in with Google.

Website and docs: vidskim.com/mcp · Registry: com.vidskim/youtube

Tools

ToolWhat it does
get_transcriptFull transcript in Markdown with chapters and a timestamp link on every paragraph. Long videos come in parts; any time range can be read on its own; YouTube's machine translation is available for other languages.
search_transcriptFinds the passages about a topic inside one video.
get_video_infoTitle, channel, date, views, description, and chapters.
search_youtubeFinds videos by topic when you don't have a link yet.
list_channel_videosA channel's latest uploads, or the videos in a playlist.

All tools are read-only. Vidskim never posts, comments, or touches your YouTube account.

Connect

Claude (claude.ai, Desktop, mobile)
  1. Open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
  2. Name it Vidskim and paste https://vidskim.com/api/mcp.
  3. Click Connect, sign in with Google, and press Allow.

Tip: choose Always allow for the Vidskim tools the first time Claude asks, so long videos (which arrive in several parts) don't ask again for every part.

ChatGPT
  1. Open Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced and turn on Developer mode.
  2. Back in Apps & Connectors, click Create, name it Vidskim, paste the URL, and pick OAuth.
  3. Sign in with Google, press Allow, then turn Vidskim on in a chat from the + menu.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http vidskim https://vidskim.com/api/mcp

Then type /mcp inside Claude Code, pick vidskim, and sign in.

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vidskim": { "url": "https://vidskim.com/api/mcp" }
  }
}

Cursor opens the sign-in the first time a tool runs.

VS Code
code --add-mcp '{"name":"vidskim","type":"http","url":"https://vidskim.com/api/mcp"}'

Start the server from the MCP view and sign in when Copilot asks.

Any other MCP client

Add a remote MCP server with the Streamable HTTP transport and the URL above. Authentication is standard OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration.

Example

Explain how this video says a transformer works, in a few short points with timestamps: https://youtu.be/wjZofJX0v4M

  • A chatbot works by predicting a probability distribution for the next chunk of text, sampling from it, and repeating 2:01.
  • The input is split into tokens, and each token becomes a vector meant to encode its meaning 3:04.
  • In the attention block those vectors pass information to each other 4:05.

Limits

  • Works with public YouTube videos that have captions, uploaded or auto-generated, in any language. Videos with no captions, private, members-only, or removed videos return a clear message instead of a guess.
  • A transcript is speech only: slides and on-screen text are missing unless the speaker reads them out.
  • Free plan: 30 videos a month. Each video counts once, so follow-up questions and searches inside it don't use more.

Privacy and support

This repository holds the listing files for MCP directories (this README and server.json). The server itself is hosted at vidskim.com.

Vidskim is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube, Google, Anthropic, or OpenAI.

Questions fréquentes

Qu'est-ce que Vidskim: YouTube transcripts ?

Let AI assistants read YouTube: transcripts with clickable timestamps, chapters, search, channels.

Comment installer Vidskim: YouTube transcripts ?

Il fonctionne comme serveur distant. Dans Claude Code : claude mcp add --transport http vidskim-youtube-transcripts 'https://vidskim.com/api/mcp'. Pour les autres clients, collez la configuration JSON de cette page dans leurs réglages MCP.

Faut-il une clé API pour Vidskim: YouTube transcripts ?

Son entrée au registre n'indique aucune clé ni secret obligatoire. Certaines fonctions peuvent tout de même demander un compte auprès du service auquel il se connecte.

Vidskim: YouTube transcripts est-il open source ?

Oui. Son code est sur GitHub sous licence MIT.

Qui maintient Vidskim: YouTube transcripts ?

Il est publié par vidskim. AI.tn le référence sans le maintenir ni le recommander.

Issu du registre MCP officiel. Être listé n'est pas une recommandation : vérifiez le code et les permissions d'un serveur avant de lui donner accès à vos données.