youtube-transcript-mcp
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Overview
Enables LLM chat applications to summarize or analyze content from YouTube videos by providing their transcripts.
Installation
uv run --with fastmcp --with youtube-transcript-api fastmcp run "$INSERT_PATH/youtube-transcript-mcp/mcp_server.py"Security Notes
The server's core functionality relies on the `youtube-transcript-api` library, which is widely used and generally trusted. The provided code does not introduce new security vulnerabilities. URL parsing is done with a specific regex pattern, mitigating some input risks. No 'eval' or similar dangerous patterns are used.
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