youtube-mcp

[](https://smithery.ai/server/@sfiorini/youtube-mcp)

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation for YouTube, enabling AI language models to interact with YouTube content through a standardized interface. Optimized for 90% Smithery quality score with comprehensive resources, prompts, and flexible configuration.

• Get video details (title, description, duration, etc.) with direct URLs
• List channel videos with direct URLs
• Get video statistics (views, likes, comments)
• Search videos across YouTube with direct URLs
• NEW: Enhanced video responses include url and videoId fields for easy integration

• Retrieve video transcripts
• Support for multiple languages
• Get timestamped captions
• Search within transcripts

• Resources:
• youtube://transcript/{videoId}: Access transcripts directly via resource URIs
• youtube://info: Server information and usage documentation (Smithery discoverable)
• Prompts:
• summarize-video: Automated workflow to get and summarize video content
• analyze-channel: Comprehensive analysis of a channel's content strategy
• Annotations: All tools include capability hints (read-only, idempotent) for better LLM performance

• Get channel details
• List channel playlists
• Get channel statistics
• Search within channel content

• List playlist items
• Get playlist details
• Search within playlists
• Get playlist video transcripts

1. Install the package:

npm install -g @sfiorini/youtube-mcp

1. Add to your Claude Desktop configuration (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json on Windows):

{
  "mcpServe