YouTube transcript
Full transcript of a YouTube video as timestamped lines and optionally as one plain text block, alongside the video's title, channel, duration, view and like counts.
Can also walk a channel and transcribe its recent videos.
What a call costs
Billed on actual usage, minimum $0.0020 per call, capped at $4.00 per call.
a price before every call. failed calls are never charged.
When to use it
Use when you need what was actually said in a video: summarising, quoting, fact checking, or turning talks and tutorials into text. Give exactly one of youtube_url or channel_url. Each transcribed video is billed as one result.
Inputs
YouTube transcript takes 7 fields, none of them required. Anything you leave out falls back to the tool's own default.
| Field | Type | Required | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| end_date | string | optional | Only channel videos uploaded on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD). channel_url only |
| language | string | optional | Transcript language as ISO 639-1, e.g. en or fr. Leave blank for the video's own default |
| max_videos | integer | optional | Maximum videos to transcribe from channel_url. Ignored for youtube_url. Billed per video |
| start_date | string | optional | Only channel videos uploaded on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). channel_url only |
| channel_url | string | optional | A YouTube channel URL. Transcribes up to max_videos of its videos, each billed as its own result |
| youtube_url | string | optional | A single YouTube video URL (watch, youtu.be or shorts). Give this OR channel_url, never both |
| include_transcript_text | boolean | optional | Also return the whole transcript as one plain string in transcript_text |
How to call it
Connect once and your agent can reach YouTube transcript the same way it reaches everything else in the catalog. Add Goro as an MCP connector, or paste the setup line into an agent that reads skills.
MCP
Add this server in Claude, Claude Code, or any MCP client.
https://mcp.usegoro.ai/mcp
Skill
One line in your agent's chat. It sets itself up.
set up https://usegoro.ai/SKILL.mdOr plain HTTP
POST /v1/run
{
"endpoint": "youtube.transcript",
"input": {
"max_videos": 10,
"include_transcript_text": false
}
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