youtube

# YouTube Fetch the full transcript of any YouTube video and turn it into whatever the user needs — summaries, blog posts, social content, quotes, show notes, or raw text. Then package videos for upload: high-CTR thumbnails, SEO titles, and descriptions. ## Routing | User intent | Where to go | | --- | --- | | Transcript, summary, repurposing, quotes, chapters | This guide (below) | | Thumbnails, style cloning, SEO titles/descriptions | `references/thumbnails.md` | ## Requirements - **Hyper MCP installed.** [https://app.hyperfx.ai/mcp](https://app.hyperfx.ai/mcp) - **YouTube toolkit enabled** at [https://app.hyperfx.ai/apps](https://app.hyperfx.ai/apps) — provides `youtube_video_transcripts_fetch` and `youtube_videos_read`. - Thumbnail workflows additionally need the image generation and sandbox toolkits. If `youtube_video_transcripts_fetch` is not in the tool list, stop and tell the user to enable the YouTube toolkit in Hyper. ## Two tools — pick the right one | Tool | When to use | Returns | | --- | --- | --- | | `youtube_video_transcripts_fetch` | You need the raw transcript text or timestamped segments. Fast, reliable, always get this first. | Full text string + segments with start/duration timestamps | | `youtube_videos_read` | You need AI-powered extraction from the video — summaries, Q&A, topic segmentation, translation, visual descriptions. | Free-form answer to your instruction | **Default: start with `youtube_video_transcripts_fetch`.** Use `youtube_videos_...