Yard Search

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🤖 Bring Your Own AI

Use your favorite AI tools to search and query Yard transcripts.

We believe in open access to data. While we offer AI search on this site, you can also connect your own AI assistants to search our transcript database directly.

Whether you prefer ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or custom tools—we've got you covered.

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ChatGPT Custom GPT

Create a custom GPT that can search Yard transcripts for you.

How to set it up:

  1. Go to ChatGPT GPT Editor
  2. Click "Create new GPT"
  3. Go to the "Configure" tab
  4. Scroll down to "Actions" and click "Create new action"
  5. Click "Import from URL" and enter:
https://yard-search.com/openapi.json

ChatGPT will import our API spec and you can then ask it questions like "Search for episodes about a topic" or "Find memorable stories from the show."

Direct API Access

Our search API is open and free to use. No API key required.

Search Transcripts

GET https://yard-search.com/api/search?q=your+search+query

List Episodes

GET https://yard-search.com/api/episodes

Get Episode Transcript

GET https://yard-search.com/api/episodes/{videoId}
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MCP Server

We now expose a read-only MCP endpoint for transcript search, episode listing, and transcript retrieval.

Endpoint

POST https://yard-search.com/mcp

Discovery Metadata

GET https://yard-search.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json

The MCP server is stateless and read-only. It currently exposes three tools: transcript search, episode listing, and episode detail retrieval. The server card is published at the standard well-known path used by Cloudflare Agent Readiness.

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WebMCP

Public pages feature-detect document.modelContext.registerTool() and register the same search and episode tools on page load so WebMCP-enabled browser agents can discover them without scraping the DOM.

This is an experimental browser-side surface. Each tool is registered independently with a page-owned abort signal, and pages without the WebMCP API continue to work normally.

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llms.txt

We support the emerging llms.txt standard—a simple text file that helps AI models understand what our site does and how to use it.

Think of it like robots.txt, but for AI assistants.

💡 Ideas & Use Cases

Research Assistant

Build a GPT that finds clips about specific topics for video essays or compilations.

Quote Finder

Search for specific quotes or memorable moments to share with friends.

Discord Bot

Create a bot that lets your community search transcripts in Discord.

Custom Analytics

Analyze episode data, track topics over time, or build visualizations.

⚠️ Fair Use Guidelines

More integrations are possible, but the public MCP endpoint and OpenAPI spec are live today.