Model Context Protocol — a standard for connecting AI clients to external tools and data sources. If your AI client supports MCP, you can plug TranscriptX in once and the AI gets new abilities like transcribe_url and list_creator_videos.

Do I have to pay extra?

No. The same monthly credits power web and MCP usage. Free plan: 3 transcriptions/month. Pro: unlimited. MCP doesn't change billing.

Each user generates a personal token at /account/mcp. Tokens are revocable instantly. Your AI client connects to https://transcriptx.xyz/mcp/ over HTTPS, with the token in the URL or as an Authorization header.

What's actually new vs the web product?

Two things: you don't switch tabs anymore — ask the AI for a transcript, you get it inline; and two new tool surfaces — list_creator_videos lets the AI find and process an entire channel's recent uploads, and retry_transcript_language fixes mis-detected language for free.

Get the transcript of any video directly inside your AI

Q: Which AI clients work with this?

Claude Desktop and claude.ai (custom connectors UI), Cursor (Settings → MCP), ChatGPT (connector settings), Continue.dev (config.json), and Cline (MCP Servers panel). The full setup guides are at /account/mcp/guide.

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Quick answer: TranscriptX is now an MCP server. Add it to Claude (Desktop or claude.ai), Cursor, ChatGPT, Continue, or Cline once, and your AI can transcribe URLs, list a creator's recent videos, and retry mis-detected languages — all from inside the chat.

You've been here: you find a YouTube video, you switch tabs to a transcription tool, you paste the URL, you wait, you copy the transcript back, you paste it into your AI conversation, you ask your question. Three context switches, four copy-pastes.

That's over.

TranscriptX just shipped MCP support. Your AI can now transcribe videos for you — from inside Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Continue.dev, or Cline. No tab-switching, no copying, no leaving the chat.

What you can ask your AI now

Once TranscriptX is connected, these all work as one-shot prompts:

“Transcribe this and pull out the three best quotes: <YouTube URL>”
“Find Lex Fridman's last 5 episodes and summarize each in two sentences.”
“Translate this Spanish video transcript to English: <URL>”
“That last transcript looks garbled — retry as Japanese.”
“Pull every video from this channel that mentions ‘agents' and write me a brief.”

The AI handles the loop for you: discover the URLs, transcribe them, summarize, surface the answer.