Social Data
YouTube Transcript MCP
Use YouTube Transcript in your AI assistant to retrieve the available information. Explore supported inputs and use cases below.
YouTube Transcript AI Prompts & Use Cases
After connecting this MCP tool to your AI assistant, you can ask the questions below. Replace bracketed placeholders with your own inputs and use the supported values in Arguments.
New to Nexscope MCP? Follow the connection guide, then use the prompts below. The Integration and Parameters & Response tabs contain the connection steps, call example, and technical reference.
1. Review YouTube Transcript
Prompt: Retrieve YouTube Transcript for [public URL]. Summarize only the information actually returned and preserve source links when available. Report private, restricted, missing or partial results explicitly; missing values are not zero.
2. Review Language-Specific Results
Prompt: Retrieve YouTube Transcript for [public URL] with [a supported language choice]. Follow the documented language option and report unavailable language-specific content. Do not fabricate a translation or claim that the option guarantees the language of every result.
3. Create A Brief From Returned Text
Prompt: Retrieve YouTube Transcript for [public URL] and prepare a brief about [my research question] using only text present in the response. Cite the corresponding source links when returned, distinguish quotations from interpretation, and report insufficient text. Do not claim to have read linked pages or infer private information.
4. Use The Original Audio Caption Track
Prompt: Retrieve the YouTube transcript for [public URL] using the documented original-audio option. Preserve the returned language and caption source, and report when the original track is unavailable rather than substituting an invented translation.
What You Need to Provide
Use only the documented public inputs. Private, restricted, missing and partial results remain distinct; missing metrics are not zero.
Check the current Nexscope price before running the request. Optional enrichment, downloads, transcription and additional pages can incur charges. These examples do not execute a request.
Step 1 · Connect
Connect Your AI Assistant
Connect a compatible MCP client to Nexscope, then select this tool from your assistant. Use the connection settings in your client to complete authentication.
POST https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp
MCP-Protocol-Version: 2025-11-25
Content-Type: application/jsonAuthentication
Use OAuth 2.1 Authorization Code with PKCE and the mcp:tools scope. API keys remain supported as a compatibility option.
Authorization: Bearer nk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxUsing an API key? Get your key from API Access and include it in the Authorization header shown above.
Call this MCP tool
social_youtube_transcripthttps://api.nexscope.ai/mcptools/callInitialize an MCP 2025-11-25 Streamable HTTP session at https://api.nexscope.ai/mcp, then use tools/call.
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": "social-youtube-transcript-1",
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "social_youtube_transcript",
"arguments": {
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjVIDXPP7Uk"
}
}
}MCP 2025-11-25 · Streamable HTTPProgress is delivered on the original POST SSE response. GET SSE carries notifications; reconnecting must query existing asynchronous work rather than submit again.
Arguments
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
url | string | required | url Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjVIDXPP7Uk |
language | string | optional | language |
originalAudio | boolean | optional | originalAudio |
cacheMaxAge | string | optional | cacheMaxAge |
Response fields
Treat structuredContent as the programmatic API response payload.
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
code | integer | required | 0 means accepted or successful; nonzero is a platform error. |
cost | string | required | Elapsed milliseconds, never credits; -1 outside web requests. |
data | any | required | Data value used by this API operation. |
msg | string | null | required | Msg value used by this API operation. |
time | string | required | Server local time: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss. |
traceId | string | null | required | Trace id value used by this API operation. |
ts | string | required | Epoch milliseconds. |
Any of option 1 — requires platform, resourceStatus, fetchedAt, sourceFetchedAt, usage, transcript
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data | object | required | Data value used by this API operation. |
data.fetchedAt | string | required | Fetched at value used by this API operation. Format: date-time |
data.platform | string | required | Platform value used by this API operation. Allowed: instagram, youtube, reddit, pinterest |
data.resourceStatus | string | required | Resource status value used by this API operation. Allowed: AVAILABLE, PARTIAL, PRIVATE, RESTRICTED, NOT_FOUND, NO_TRANSCRIPT, UNKNOWN |
data.sourceFetchedAt | any | required | Source fetched at value used by this API operation. |
data.transcript | any | required | Transcript value used by this API operation. |
data.usage | object | required | Usage value used by this API operation. |
data.usage.billingStatus | string | required | Billing status value used by this API operation. Allowed: NOT_CHARGED, SETTLED, UNKNOWN |
data.usage.chargedCredits | any | required | Charged credits value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.sourceFetchedAt | string | required | Source fetched at value used by this API operation. Format: date-time |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.sourceFetchedAt | null | required | Source fetched at value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1 — requires segments, kind, language
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.transcript | object | required | Transcript value used by this API operation. |
data.transcript.kind | string | required | Kind value used by this API operation. Allowed: MANUAL, AUTOMATIC, UNKNOWN |
data.transcript.language | any | required | Language value used by this API operation. |
data.transcript.segments | array | required | Segments value used by this API operation. |
data.transcript.segments[] | object | required | Item in data transcript segments. |
data.transcript.segments[].endMs | number | required | End ms value used by this API operation. Minimum: 0 |
data.transcript.segments[].startMs | number | required | Start ms value used by this API operation. Minimum: 0 |
data.transcript.segments[].text | string | required | Text value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.transcript.language | string | required | Language value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.transcript.language | null | required | Language value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.transcript | null | required | Transcript value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 1
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.usage.chargedCredits | number | required | Charged credits value used by this API operation. Minimum: 0 |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data.usage.chargedCredits | null | required | Charged credits value used by this API operation. |
Any of option 2
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
data | null | required | Data value used by this API operation. |
Workflow Guide
Workflow example, not a verified API response.
Your Goal
Retrieve YouTube Transcript for [public URL]. Summarize only the information actually returned and preserve source links when available. Report private, restricted, missing or partial results explicitly; missing values are not zero.
Suggested Steps
Provide the documented public identifiers or search inputs. The assistant can then make the requested lookup and organize only the returned evidence. Missing or restricted results must be reported explicitly; no actual lookup or returned metrics are claimed here.
About this sample: Workflow example based on the published API document, not a live API response.
Published sample data is not available for this page. A format illustration or workflow guide is not a substitute for a published result.
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