YouTube for AI Agents: Let ChatGPT and Claude Read Videos

AI models read text, so on their own they cannot watch a video, and YouTube blocks most of the servers they browse from. TranscriptFetch is the missing tool: connect it over MCP and your assistant or agent can fetch the transcript of any public video, search YouTube and walk a channel or playlist, then answer from what was actually said.
Summarize the last five videos on youtube.com/@buildwithmara
Across the five videos, three ideas keep coming up:
Add TranscriptFetch as a connector in Claude, or as a remote MCP server in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT or OpenAI's Agents SDK. Building your own agent? Call the REST API as a tool.
"Summarize the last five videos on this channel", "what does this TikTok claim?", "find videos comparing these two tools". The model picks the right tool and fetches what it needs.
Get answers from the source
The model reads the real transcript, with timestamps, so it can quote what was said and link to the moment instead of guessing from a title.
Claude Code: add the hosted MCP server
Not by itself. ChatGPT works from text, and when it is given a YouTube link it usually cannot get at the transcript. Connect TranscriptFetch as an MCP connector and it can fetch the transcript of any public YouTube, TikTok or Instagram video, then answer from what was said.
Claude cannot open a video on its own. With the TranscriptFetch connector added from Claude's connector directory, or as a remote MCP server in Claude Code, it fetches the transcript and works from that, including whole channels and playlists.
Yes. The same server works as a remote MCP tool in OpenAI's Responses API and Agents SDK, and any framework can call the REST API as a function tool. The docs have tested examples.
TranscriptFetch transcribes the audio with AI and returns the same transcript shape, so the agent does not need a second path. It is charged by length, only when a transcript is delivered.
Turn whole channels and playlists into a searchable knowledge base, with chunks that link to the exact moment.
Summaries, notes, chapters and Q&A for any video your users paste in, with your own model.
Analyze channels, competitors and topics with AI, and watch for new videos as they are posted.
Transcribe new uploads, send summaries to Notion or Slack, and chat with videos in n8n, Zapier or Make.
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The transcript API for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.
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