# How to use Claude to get a YouTube video transcript with looot

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

## Connect looot to Claude

1. In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors.
2. Click "+ Add", then "Add custom connector".
3. Name it looot and paste the remote MCP server URL https://api.looot.ai/mcp. Click Continue.
4. Review the authentication settings Claude detects and click Continue. Under Authentication pick "Sign in now" or "Sign in when needed". Under OAuth client, Anthropic recommends "Use Claude's published identity". Click Add.
5. looot's sign-in page opens: sign in with your looot account and allow access. Runs are paid from your prepaid looot balance.

Anthropic's help center says custom connectors work on Free, Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise, and a Free account can add one custom connector. On Team and Enterprise an Owner or Primary Owner adds it under Organization settings, Connectors, and each member then clicks Connect under Customize, Connectors.

In Claude Code instead: Add looot from your terminal with one command: `claude mcp add --transport http looot https://api.looot.ai/mcp`. Then type /mcp inside Claude Code and follow the browser sign-in.

- Source, read 2026-11-10: [Anthropic help center: Get started with custom connectors using remote MCP](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11175166-getting-started-with-custom-connectors-using-remote-mcp)
- Source, read 2026-11-10: [Claude Code docs: Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp)

## Ask Claude

In a new chat, click the "+" button at the lower left, choose Connectors and switch looot on for this conversation. Then paste the 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.

## Jobs it calls and what they cost

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.

- `video.transcript.get`: 1 call, from $0.001 per call (TikHub, the cheapest of 4 providers). [About the cheapest provider](/providers/tikhub)

## 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.

- 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.
- 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.

## 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.

## More

- [The same task in ChatGPT](/guides/chatgpt/video-transcript)
- [The prompt on its own](/prompts/video-transcript)
- [All Claude guides](/guides/claude)