YouTube Transcripts for Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT & agents

YouTube video transcript extraction, key-free: paste a video URL and get its subtitles as clean text with per-minute [m:ss] timestamps, video title/channel/duration, the caption language actually u...

curl -fsSL https://tradeloop.top/install.sh | sh

What it does

YouTube video transcript extraction, key-free: paste a video URL and get its subtitles as clean text with per-minute [m:ss] timestamps, video title/channel/duration, the caption language actually used (manual preferred over auto-generated, preference and YouTube-side translation supported) and every other language available. Videos over 90 minutes yield only their first 90 minutes (absolute cap). Use when the user shares a YouTube link and wants it summarized, its core viewpoints extracted, or a claim inside it located.

The YouTube Transcripts skill is one of 40+ pre-wired TradeLoop integrations that any MCP-compatible client — Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT desktop — can call out of the box. You don't configure MCP servers or copy API keys into a JSON file; the TradeLoop daemon discovers the skill at startup and exposes its tools to whichever AI client is running.

Sample prompts

Once TradeLoop is installed and YouTube Transcripts is connected, ask your agent something like:

• “Transcript from YouTube Transcripts.”
• “Use the YouTube Transcripts skill from TradeLoop to transcript.”
• “Use the YouTube Transcripts skill from TradeLoop to transcript.”

Tools available (1)

• youtube__transcript

  Extract the transcript of one YouTube video from its subtitles (manual captions preferred, auto-generated as fallback; any language). Returns the full text with a [m:ss] video-timestamp marker each minute, plus title, channel, duration, which caption track was used (language + whether auto-generated) and all available

How to connect

YouTube Transcripts is a no-auth skill — there's nothing to connect. Once TradeLoop is installed, your agent can call its tools immediately.

1. Run curl -fsSL https://tradeloop.top/install.sh | sh on macOS / Linux (or the PowerShell command on Windows).
2. Run tradeloop login to create your account and a device-bound encryption key.
3. Run tradeloop update to sync the skill + credentials to every installed AI client.

Pricing

Free at every TradeLoop tier. Connect your account once at /connect; the OAuth or API-key credential stays encrypted on your machine and syncs to your other devices via the TradeLoop vault.

See the full TradeLoop pricing breakdown — Free $0/mo, Pro $29/mo, Ultra $99/mo — on the homepage.