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DimensionYouTube Transcript MCP ServerMCP server that retrieves YouTube video transcripts and metadataBioMCPOne binary. One grammar. Evidence from the biomedical sources you already trust.
FMRS57 / 100 · C75 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2010 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance12 / 2018 / 20
Documentation13 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience12 / 2014 / 20
Best for
  • Writing and research workflows that need spoken YouTube content as text
  • Users who want quick video information inside an MCP client
  • Biomedical researchers
  • Clinicians
  • AI agents that need efficient access to biomedical literature and data analysis
Not for
  • Scenarios that require downloading or playing the YouTube video itself
  • Environments where YouTube access is restricted and no proxy is configured
  • Users needing to write to upstream databases (read-only)
  • Users requiring direct access to closed datasets (e.g., COSMIC is not directly integrated)
  • Users expecting all advanced features without API keys
Required permissions
  • Reading local environment variables (e.g. WEBSHARE_PROXY_USERNAME, WEBSHARE_PROXY_PASSWORD, HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY)
  • Network access to YouTube
  • Network access through a proxy server (if configured)
  • Requires internet access to query public biomedical APIs
  • Optional API keys (NCBI, Semantic Scholar, OpenFDA, etc.) to improve rate limits or unlock features
  • Local read/write access for skills, cache, and local study data (e.g., `~/.local/share/biomcp`)
Risks and side effects
  • YouTube may impose IP bans on the request source, causing requests to fail
  • Proxy credentials stored as environment variables or command line arguments may be readable by other processes on the machine
  • Transcripts are external untrusted content and may contain errors or injected text
  • Long transcripts can exceed model context limits and depend on pagination
  • Upstream API rate limits may affect performance
  • Some data sources (e.g., KEGG) have licensing terms that restrict non-academic use
  • Features requiring API keys (e.g., OncoKB) may be incomplete without them
  • Local binary installations need regular updates for compatibility
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Goose, LM StudioClaude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Other MCP stdio clients
Tools411