YouTube for ChatGPT & Claude: Ask About Any Video

Paste a link and your assistant reads the video: summaries, quotes with the exact timestamp, a whole channel or playlist. Add it in one click and start free.
50 free credits, no card.
What does this channel say about pricing strategy?
Across six videos, two ideas keep coming back:
You ask in plain words; your assistant picks the right one.
Paste a watch link or a youtu.be link · Captions when the video has them, AI transcription when it doesn’t · Timestamps, so it can quote the exact moment
Try asking: Summarize this video and quote the key moment.
Find videos by topic when you don’t have a link · Narrow by upload date and length, or keep only videos with captions · Every result ready to read
Try asking: Find this week’s videos on the Fed’s rate decision and compare what they say.
Give it a channel name or link · Its newest videos, its most popular, its Shorts or its live streams · Up to 50 videos at a time
Try asking: What has @channel said about pricing in their last ten videos?
Playlists and a channel’s podcast shows · In the creator’s own order · A whole course or season in one ask
Try asking: Turn this playlist into a study guide.
Three steps and nothing to install. Your first question can be about any public video.
One click opens the connection, or paste the server URL into your assistant’s connector settings. Nothing to install.
Create a free account or sign in, then approve access. 50 free credits, no card.
Ask in plain words about any public YouTube video. Your assistant reads what was said and answers from it, with the timestamps.
Real questions, answered from what was actually said.
Give me the key arguments in this lecture, with timestamps.
Three arguments, starting at 04:12...
Turn hour-long lectures and talks into notes they can search, with every quote tied to its moment.
What does this channel keep saying about pricing?
Across six videos the recurring advice is...
Read what a channel actually says across dozens of videos before they make their own.
Summarize this week’s videos from these three channels.
Two themes came up in all three...
Follow what experts, competitors or customers say on YouTube without watching every upload.
Most YouTube uploads already carry a caption track, auto-generated if the creator never wrote one, and often in several languages. So a YouTube fetch is usually a read, not a transcription job: fast, and billed as a single credit like everything else. AI Fallback Transcription only has to step in for the minority of videos where captions are disabled or missing.
Most uploads, often in several languages. A read, not a transcription job: fast, one credit.
Captions disabled or missing: AI Fallback Transcription transcribes the audio, billed by length on delivery.
Can’t be read: Live streams while they are still live. Age-restricted or private videos. Clips with no speech.
Bar shows the idea, not a measured share.
Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and your own agents connect with the server URL and an API key. The docs cover every client, each tool’s parameters and a real example call.
No. On claude.ai and ChatGPT you add it as a connection and sign in, and that is all. Claude Code, Cursor and other developer tools take one line of configuration, covered in the docs.
Yes. When a video has no captions, the audio is transcribed with AI. Short videos come back in the same answer; a long one takes a little longer, and your assistant picks it up when it is ready.
Yes. Ask about a channel or paste a playlist link, and your assistant lists the videos and reads each one. Each video read and each list counts as one credit.
50 free credits. Caption fetches cost one credit; AI Fallback Transcription is billed by audio duration, only on delivery. Failed requests are never billed. Paid plans start at $5 a month for 1,000 credits.
No. TranscriptFetch is an independent transcript API; the MCP server exposes it over Anthropic's open Model Context Protocol and is listed in the official MCP Registry as com.transcriptfetch/youtube-transcripts.
Add it to Claude or ChatGPT, sign in, and ask about your first video. Free credits, no card.
The transcript API for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.