# YouTube Transcript Extractor MCP

> YouTube Transcript Extractor MCP is a paid API for AI agents from api.m2mcent.com, paid per call via x402, $0.15/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Extracts and returns the full transcript from a YouTube video given its URL or video ID

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.m2mcent.com/youtube-transcript-extractor-mcp/api/process?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.15/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/youtube-transcript-extractor-mcp-500500f2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_IRce0ZGt-h0vEILLokUdy

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability youtube-transcript-extractor-mcp-500500f2 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you grab the full transcript from this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ? I want to read what's being said without watching it.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to extract spoken text content from a YouTube video programmatically. It is ideal for pipelines that summarize, analyze, search, or transform YouTube video content into text. Prefer this over generic web scrapers when dealing specifically with YouTube transcripts, as it is purpose-built for that extraction task.

## Known failure modes

- Video has no available captions or subtitles — transcript cannot be extracted
- Invalid or malformed YouTube URL/video ID provided in the data field
- Video is private, age-restricted, or region-blocked — access denied
- YouTube API rate limits or access restrictions prevent retrieval
- Network or upstream YouTube service errors cause extraction failure
- Very long videos may time out or return partial transcripts

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns the full text transcript of the specified YouTube video, typically as a string of spoken words extracted from the video's captions or auto-generated subtitles, potentially including timestamps or structured text segments.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "success": true
 }
}
```

## More

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