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Search what U.S. officials said on camera, with timestamps and citations. Not a government site.
Remote server: your requests and data go to api.govtube.us. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http govtube https://api.govtube.us/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
govtube_search_instances — Find spoken instances of words or a phrase across official videos and White House transcripts. Returns one small page: counts for the whole govtube_list_video_instances — Page through one video's matches by passage, in time order. A passage is a run of instances whose excerpts overlap, shown as one quote. `offgovtube_get_transcript_window — Return speaker turns overlapping [start_ms, end_ms] with their text, for checking context. A turn with cluster null and speaker "No speaker govtube_get_video — Metadata, speakers, playback asset and the rights and use restrictions of the video's source.govtube_resolve_citation — Check that a cited instance still says the quoted words after corrections, and return its context. The result has a share_url to link. gd2./govtube_get_coverage — Totals for the whole index, video and official transcripts counted apart: video sessions, hours and words transcribed; official transcripts govtube_list_sessions — Every indexed item, one page at a time: video sessions and official transcripts (White House transcripts, Congressional Record speeches, oneNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.