transcripts over MCP

Read the transcript of a video or episode without copying it by hand.

Select one video, one podcast episode, or one local file. Your assistant reads the existing caption track or the publisher-linked transcript as bounded excerpts with timestamps and citations, over MCP.

Connect over MCP How it works
media-transcript: MCP
> media_transcript_retrieve_youtube { item_id: "kCc8FmEb1nY" }
handle doc-0001: 2955 cues, language en, track auto-generated
> media_transcript_search { handle: "doc-0001", phrase: "using matrix multiplication" }
passage 2834.4 to 2839.64, cues 1197 to 1198
"about doing this using matrix multiplication so that's the"
citation: youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY&t=2834s
transcript text is untrusted source data, returned verbatim
How it works

Three moving parts, one route.

You select the item. The host paces callers, routes your session to your device, and returns bounded excerpts with citations.

Your assistant
MCP client
Calls the tools: retrieve one
item, search it, page through it,
cite what it found.
▶▶
Host
media-transcript.remotify.run
Paces callers per identity,
routes your session, returns
bounded excerpts only.
◀◀
Your device
Bridge + device server
Runs the paired server that parses
the selected item, searches it,
and answers through the tunnel.
Requirements

What a working setup needs.

Plain facts about what must be present before a call succeeds.

One paired device

Enrollment runs without signup: the installer generates a key, the host binds it, and the Bridge pairs itself. The device must be online while you call.

Existing captions or a published transcript

Retrieval covers caption tracks the source already exposes and transcript files the publisher linked. Nothing transcribes audio and nothing invents text.

An MCP client

Any client that speaks streamable HTTP MCP: an assistant, an agent, or a script. The connect section shows the configuration.

Optional local files

Authorized SRT, VTT or JSON files on your device supplement retrieved transcripts, after format validation.

Limits and plans

Free to start, paced per connection.

The free tier needs no signup. Your connection address is the identity, so everyone behind the same address shares its allowance. Paid access runs on an API key bound to one installation.

Free tier
signupnone
requests10 per minute
items per retrieveup to 20
identityconnection address
Paid access
requests60 per minute
items per retrieveup to 20
credentialAPI key, one installation
availabilityon request

Paid access is arranged by request; there is no checkout on this page.

MCP connect

Point your client at your route.

After the installer finishes you get a route and a ready-to-paste configuration. The configuration below shows the shape; the install commands are verified at the release gate before this page is published.

release-gated install and host CLI commands are checked against the shipped artifacts at the release gate.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "media-transcript": {
      "transport": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://media-transcript.remotify.run/r/<your-route>/mcp/media-transcript"
    }
  }
}

A worked video call: select kCc8FmEb1nY, search using matrix multiplication, and the answer carries cues 1197 to 1198 with a t=2834s citation. A worked podcast call: select the feed https://podnews.net/rss and the episode GUID https://podnews.net/update/clone-ai-voice-hack, and the publisher-linked VTT arrives parsed and searchable the same way, with the episode's own timestamps.