Yank

info.yank/yank · v1.1.0

Five sourced lines from a video, podcast, article or PDF, and a check that a quote is in its source

MCPremoteno credentialsImages, video & audio

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Last check

Reachable, 7 tools, protocol 2025-06-18 · checked 2026-10-17

Test & rating

A 96/100

What it does: 7 tools · 7 read, 0 write · Images, video & audio, Documents & PDF

Test call recent_yanks: worked (1,139 ms)

How the rating is made

Answers without login: +30
Speed of first answer: +10
Lists tools: +10
Tool descriptions: +15
Parameter descriptions: +6
Read/write annotations: +5
Safe test call: +20
More than 80 tools: 0

Tested 2026-10-17. Fixed rules, no AI model. Grade A needs a successful real call.

Install

Remote URL

https://yank.info/api/mcp

Tools

7 tools listed at last check

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, and the permanent c
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 that opens the sourc
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 statement's content
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, with where, the speaker
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 return the same answer. R
recent_yanks The newest yanks in the library, one card each (rank-1 line, author, source type, URL).

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