YouTube MCP

YouTube MCP

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for YouTube video analysis, providing tools to get transcripts, summarize content, and query videos using Gemini AI.

Features

• 📝 Transcript Extraction: Get detailed transcripts from YouTube videos
• 📊 Video Summarization: Generate concise summaries using Gemini AI
• ❓ Natural Language Queries: Ask questions about video content
• 🔍 YouTube Search: Find videos matching specific queries
• 💬 Comment Analysis: Retrieve and analyze video comments

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• Google Gemini API key
• YouTube Data API key

Running Locally

Installing via Smithery

To install youtube-mcp for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

Option 1: Install directly from smithery

Option 2: Local setup

1. Clone the repository:
   git clone https://github.com/Prajwal-ak-0/youtube-mcp cd youtube-mcp
2. Create a virtual environment and install dependencies:
   python -m venv .venv source .venv/bin/activate # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate pip install -e .
3. Create a .env file with your API keys:
   GEMINI_API_KEY=your_gemini_api_key YOUTUBE_API_KEY=your_youtube_api_key
4. Run MCP Server
   mcp dev main.py
   Navigate to StdioOR
5. Go cursor or windsurf configure with this json content:
   { "youtube": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "/absolute/path/to/youtube-mcp", "run", "main.py", "--transport", "stdio", "--debug" ] } }

Available Tools

• youtube/get-transcript: Get video transcript
• youtube/summarize: Generate a video summary
• youtube/query: Answer questions about a video
• youtube/search: Search for YouTube videos
• youtube/get-comments: Retrieve video comments
• youtube/get-likes: Get video like count

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.