MCP tool
find_in_transcript
Find where a video talks about something.
The find_in_transcript tool is provided by YouTube Transcript AI. Install that server in your AI client and the assistant can call it directly.
Servers exposing find_in_transcript
From the publisher:Find where a video talks about something. Give one or more keywords and get back only the matching passages, each with a timestamp and a link that opens the video at that moment. Far cheaper than reading the whole transcript when you are looking for specific points. Matching is a case-insensitive text match, so try synonyms and spelling variants (auto-captions often mis-hear names).
Install YouTube Transcript AI →Parameter Type Description video*string YouTube video URL or 11-character video ID keywords*array Words or short phrases to look for (up to 8). A passage matches if it contains any of them. contextinteger Paragraphs (about 30 seconds each) to include before and after each match. Default 1. max_hitsinteger Maximum passages to return. Default 8. langstring Optional BCP-47 caption language code. Omit for the default track.
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