YouTube Transcript AI for Zed

ai.youtube-transcript/youtube-transcript

Fetch the full transcript of any YouTube video as clean text. No API key, no signup.

client:Zed transport:streamable-http tools:1

Install YouTube Transcript AI in Zed

~/.config/zed/settings.json · windows: %APPDATA%\Zed\settings.json

{
  "context_servers": {
    "youtube-transcript": {
      "url": "https://youtube-transcript.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Merge this into your existing settings object — do not replace the file. Zed docs