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YouTube MCP

Wraps the YouTube Data API for search, channel and video metadata, and captions where available. The transcript path is the useful one for research; anything that resembles bulk media extraction runs into API limits…

Community stdio Verified 2026-11-10 videoresearchtranscripts

Use it for

Pulling transcripts, metadata, and channel lists for content research

Skip it if

Bulk downloading media — that is not what the API is for, and the terms say so

What it is

Wraps the YouTube Data API for search, channel and video metadata, and captions where available. The transcript path is the useful one for research; anything that resembles bulk media extraction runs into API limits and terms, which is worth reading before building on it.

Install

Terminal
uvx youtube-mcp

Client configuration

Paste this into your MCP client config, then restart the client.

MCP client config (JSON)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avbbc": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "uvx youtube-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

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