# `ai.youtube-transcript/youtube-transcript` on anlyon.dev

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> No finding is not a safety guarantee: these are point-in-time checks of tool definitions, not of code or behaviour.

- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/ai.youtube-transcript/youtube-transcript
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/ai.youtube-transcript/youtube-transcript
- Version: 1.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: ai.youtube-transcript (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/zxl777/youtube-transcript-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:44:04.616Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
YouTube Transcript AI
Fetch the full transcript of any YouTube video as text, in any caption language. Free API key.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:31:23.762Z over streamable-http.

**1 tool: 1 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 1 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Only reads (1)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `get_youtube_transcript`

- The name "get_youtube_transcript" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch the full text transcript of a YouTube video. Accepts a YouTube URL (watch, youtu.be, shorts, embed) or a bare 11-character video ID, and returns the transcript as plain text with title and metadata. Optionally pass a BCP-47 language code to select a specific caption track. Very long transcripts (multi-hour videos) come back in parts of up to 120,000 characters: when there is more, the result ends with a note giving the offset to pass on the next call.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `youtube-transcript`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__youtube-transcript__get_youtube_transcript"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```