youtube
Give a YouTube video to Claude or Cursor
Turn a YouTube link into LLM-ready text: native captions where the channel published them, otherwise a transcript produced by a model that watches the video.
Why this one is hard
YouTube blocks datacenter IP ranges, so a server-side yt-dlp fetch fails no matter how it is configured — this is the single most common reason a self-hosted script that worked locally stops working once deployed. The fallback is a model that watches the video directly.
What comes back
Native captions where published, otherwise a watched transcript.
Plus the metadata every digest carries: title, author, platform, posted date and the source URL. Read by Gemini watching the video, since YouTube blocks datacenter IPs.
Use it
Paste a link like youtube.com/watch?v=… or youtu.be/… into the console, or let an agent call it directly.
MCP — Claude Code, Cursor
claude mcp add --transport http linkdigest \ https://linkdigest.dev/mcp \ --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
REST
curl -X POST https://linkdigest.dev/api/v1/digest \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
-d '{"url": "https://..."}'Three digests free, no card. After that $9 a month for 500 credits — a post is 1 credit, video is 2 a minute. Anything already digested by anyone is cached and free for everyone.