Connect Codex to YouTube Transcript
Set up in minutes
Choose where it runs
On your computer through your own Codex, or hosted in the cloud. The rest of setup adapts to your choice:
Pick what it can do in YouTube Transcript
A preset of real YouTube Transcript operations. Each one becomes a tool the agent can call, and it can't touch anything outside the list.
Connect YouTube Transcript
One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to the operations you picked.
Add your personal MCP link
The last step mints a private MCP URL for this agent and walks you through exactly this, with your real link filled in. The page flips to Connected the moment your Codex first calls in. Codex connects when a session starts — run codex, or restart a running one (in the Codex app, Restart).
Run this in your terminal. The Codex app shares its config, so it gets the server too
<your-link> is your personal server URL — setup mints it for you.
Tools Codex gets
YouTube Transcript
25 toolsTranscribe a single YouTube video.
Estimate credit cost (dry run).
Transcribe multiple videos.
Poll a V2 batch job.
List transcription jobs.
Poll a V2 transcription job.
List stored transcripts.
Fetch a stored transcript.
Delete a stored transcript.
List available languages for a video.
Read unlocked key moments, themes & keywords (free).
Unlock key moments, themes & keywords (1 credit, once per transcript).
Translate a stored transcript.
Delete transcripts by id.
Get credit balance and plan.
List your folders with video counts (free).
Create a folder (free).
Get one folder (free).
Rename a folder (free).
Delete a folder; its videos and transcripts stay (free).
List a folder's videos (same shape as GET /videos) (free).
Add videos to a folder (free).
Remove videos from a folder; transcripts are kept (free).
List your videos with their folders and existing outputs (free).
Resolve playlist videos.
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