Yank

Last 30 days

Uptime

100%

Response time

430 ms typical, 894 ms slowest 5%

Last check

6 h ago

Next check

any minute now

How to call it

Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yank": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://yank.info/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

7 tools

• search_lines

  Full-text search across every line yank.info has ever extracted. Returns quotable lines with a verbatim flag (true = literal substring of the source transcript; false = labeled paraphrase), the speaker/author, the source, a timestamp and a moment link where the source is a video,

• search_transcripts

  Full-text search inside the whole transcripts of every podcast and video yank.info has yanked, not only their five lines (§10.424). Returns moments: the source, where in it (startSeconds, endSeconds), the words around the match (snippet, the match between « and »), a moment link

• check_quote

  Yank Check: a statement and the source it is supposed to come from, in; a verdict and a receipt, out. FOUND (the words are in the representation Yank inspected), CLOSE MATCH (substantially the same wording, with the difference shown), DISTILLED MATCH (a passage shares most of the

• check_memory

  check_quote over a batch, for auditing what an agent wrote down earlier. Give it up to 10 remembered claims, each with the source it is attributed to, and it returns the same verdict and receipt for every one: FOUND, CLOSE MATCH, DISTILLED MATCH, NOT FOUND or CAN'T ESTABLISH, wit

• get_yank

  Fetch a yank (five extracted lines from one source) by its slug, the last path segment of a yank.info/y/<slug> URL. Includes every line's verbatim flag, timestamp, moment link, surrounding context, permanent card URL, share image, plus the whole yank as Markdown.

• get_lines_for_url

  Ask before you extract: everything yank.info already holds from one source URL. Any form of the link works (a youtu.be short link with a timestamp, a watch URL with a playlist, an article with tracking parameters, an Apple Podcasts or Overcast episode link); equivalent URLs retur

• recent_yanks

  The newest yanks in the library, one card each (rank-1 line, author, source type, URL).

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