YouTube MCP, give any AI agent access to YouTube
Details
- External ID
- 48198790
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- YouTube MCP, give any AI agent access to YouTube
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1147011308562197
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I have a long YouTube watch-later playlist and wanted Claude to help me triage it by summarizing each video. It couldn't. I later discovered YouTube is not accessible to Claude, ChatGPT and majority of AIs. So I built this MCP server to fix that.This is a local MCP server that gives any MCP-compatible client (Claude, ChatGPT, OpenClaw and others) 8 tools for working with YouTube content:- fetch full transcript, with or without timestamps - download transcript as a .md file - get video metadata (title, channel, views, duration, likes, description) - search within captions for a keyword or phrase - download video or audioNo YouTube API key. No account. No signup. Everything runs locally on your machine against publicly available data.Setup is one line: npx @umbertotancorre/youtube-mcpyt-dlp and ffmpeg are bundled automatically during install, so there's nothing to configure manually.It's free and MIT licensed. Feedbacks are welcome.
Enrichment
- Theme
- video transcription and extraction tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- youtube integration for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes An MCP server wrapping YouTube is a straightforward Node/Python service wrapping youtube-transcript-api or the official YouTube Data API.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: CLI interface for YouTube tool
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