About Transcript
Transcript is an agent skill for retrieving timestamped transcripts from YouTube, X, TikTok, and Facebook videos. It uses captions when available and AI transcription when they are not, and requires an API key.
Key features
- 01Fetch timestamped video transcripts
- 02Support YouTube, X, TikTok, and Facebook
- 03Use available captions
- 04Transcribe with AI when captions are absent
- 05Run through a command-line script
Use cases
- 01Extract text from social videos
- 02Create timestamped transcripts of videos
- 03Process videos without captions in an agent
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://transcript.land/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http land-transcript-transcripts https://transcript.land/mcp{"mcpServers":{"land-transcript-transcripts":{"type":"http","url":"https://transcript.land/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"land-transcript-transcripts":{"type":"http","url":"https://transcript.land/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"land-transcript-transcripts":{"type":"http","url":"https://transcript.land/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"land-transcript-transcripts":{"serverUrl":"https://transcript.land/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEtranscript
Agent skill for transcript.land — fetch a clean, timestamped transcript for any YouTube, X (Twitter), TikTok, or Facebook video, straight from Claude, Cursor, or any agent. Captions when they exist, AI transcription when they don't.
Install (one command)
npx skills add ziqorg/transcript --skill transcript
This installs the skill into your agent (Claude Code / Desktop, Cursor, …) via
npx skills. Then set your key:
export TRANSCRIPT_API_KEY=... # get one at https://transcript.land → API keys
…and just paste a video link to your agent, e.g. "transcribe https://youtu.be/…".
Use it directly
bash skills/transcript/scripts/transcript.sh "https://youtu.be/VIDEO" srt
See skills/transcript/SKILL.md for the full API.
License
MIT
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