ChatGPT guide

Get a video transcript with ChatGPT

Pull the timed transcript of a YouTube video so the assistant can quote and summarise it.

1. Connect looot to ChatGPT

Open ChatGPT Plugins at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Select the plus button, then "Add custom MCP server".
Enter a name (looot) and a short description, for example: live data APIs, paid per call.
Under Connection, choose Public endpoint and paste https://api.looot.ai/mcp, including the /mcp path.
Configure authentication, read the risk warning and select "I understand and want to continue".
Select "Create as a plugin", review the tools ChatGPT found on the server, then install the plugin.
looot's sign-in page opens when ChatGPT first needs your account: sign in and allow access. Runs are paid from your prepaid looot balance.

OpenAI's guide does not say which ChatGPT plans can add a custom MCP server. It says account and workspace policies apply to adding and using custom MCP servers.

Source, read 2026-11-10: OpenAI developer docs: Connect and test your plugin

2. Ask ChatGPT

Start a new conversation, type @ in the prompt box and select the looot plugin. Then paste the prompt.

Prompt

Use looot to get the transcript of [YouTube URL]. For a YouTube link, run the endpoint scrapecreators-youtube-video-transcript. For another platform, search looot for the job video.transcript.get and pick the endpoint made for that platform. Then list the main points with the timestamp where each starts.

3. Jobs it calls and what they cost

video.transcript.get
1 call, from $0.001 per call (TikHub, the cheapest of 4 providers)
About the cheapest provider

One use costs from $0.001 at today's cheapest providers. A provider that misses can fall back to the next one, which can cost more; looot charges only the calls that ran, from your prepaid balance.

Providers in the real run below:ScrapeCreators

4. A real run

We ran this task through the looot MCP on 2026-11-10. Asked: youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw (Me at the zoo, 19 seconds). Total charged: $0.00188.

First try, through the job route: two endpoints for other platforms refused the link. Charged $0.
Second try, on the YouTube endpoint: 6 timed lines in English, from 0:01 to 0:16.
First line: "All right, so here we are, in front of the elephants". Caption tracks: English and German.

video.transcript.get on scrapecreators-facebook-adlibrary-ad-transcript (Scrape Creators, then AnyAPI (TikTok endpoint)): missed, charged $0. Run id run_4b9ac84f81634401b83e6360bfb63840.
video.transcript.get on scrapecreators-youtube-video-transcript (Scrape Creators): answered, charged $0.00188. Run id run_6eae4539e6f7455baecd414ffc398e9d.

Good to know

On 2026-11-10 the job route sent a YouTube link to endpoints made for Facebook ads and TikTok, which refused it at no charge. Naming the YouTube endpoint avoids that until the route is fixed.

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