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YouTube transcripts API and MCP server for AI agents
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The cheapest YouTube Transcript API and MCP server, from $1.58 per 1,000 transcripts. JSON, text, SRT, or VTT in 150+ languages. 100 free, no card.
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PH · launched Oct 15, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
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Partial The API wrapper, billing, and MCP server are straightforward to vibe-code. Reliably fetching YouTube transcripts at volume is hard because YouTube blocks scrapers and datacenter IPs, so it needs proxy infrastructure and ongoing maintenance.
What it would actually take: Build a thin API layer (FastAPI or Node) with auth, metering, and an MCP server wrapper, backed by a transcript-fetching worker. The hard part is a rotating residential or proxy pool and resilience to YouTube changes, which requires scraping and networking expertise and recurring costs. Scaling to the quoted price point also depends on efficient caching and queueing.
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