YouTube MCP: Documentation
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Connection
npx -y zubeid-youtube-mcp-server (stdio) or a Docker image defaulting to HTTP (http://localhost:8088/mcp). Auth: YOUTUBE_API_KEY — a YouTube Data API v3 key from Google Cloud Console; up to three keys can be set (YOUTUBE_API_KEY, YOUTUBE_API_KEY2, YOUTUBE_API_KEY3) — the server switches to the next one automatically once the daily quota runs out.
Capabilities
10 tools across four areas: videos (search filtered by date, channel and creator status, fetching details), channels (metadata, search by handle or name, finding creators via video mentions), playlists (info and video listings), transcripts (caption extraction with language selection).
Agent flow
"Find channel X's latest videos from the past month with view counts", "pull this video's transcript in Russian", "show all of a channel's playlists and their videos".
Note
A community project (by ZubeidHendricks, MIT, 555 GitHub stars), not an official Google or YouTube product. YouTube Data API v3 quotas are limited (10,000 units per project per day by default) — heavy search burns through it fast.