Cursor TranscriptAPI — YouTube transcripts (transcriptapi.io) Prompt/summarize_youtube_video
How to: Cursor TranscriptAPI — YouTube transcripts (transcriptapi.io) summarize_youtube_video
Add TranscriptAPI — YouTube transcripts (transcriptapi.io) to Cursor
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Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.
{
"mcpServers": {
"youtube-transcript": {
"url": "https://api.transcriptapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}-
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Save the file and restart Cursor.
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summarize_youtube_video is surfaced in the client's prompt or command menu. Unlike a tool, you invoke it deliberately — Cursor will not call it for you.
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If it does not appear, check that TranscriptAPI — YouTube transcripts (transcriptapi.io) is connected and that you are looking at its prompts rather than its tools.
Use .cursor/mcp.json in a project root instead to scope it to that project. Cursor merges both. Cursor docs
Set these first
TranscriptAPI — YouTube transcripts (transcriptapi.io) will not start until these are set, so it never reaches Cursor.
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TRANSCRIPTAPI_KEY
Same prompt, other clients
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