The YouTube MCP Server enables Claude to summarize YouTube videos by:
- Downloading subtitles from any YouTube video URL
- Connecting to claude.ai via Model Context Protocol
- Providing the subtitle content to Claude for processing
- Allowing Claude to overcome its typical limitation of not being able to directly access YouTube video content
- Enabling users to request video summaries by simply providing a YouTube URL
Downloads subtitles from YouTube videos to provide context to Claude
YouTube MCP Server
Uses yt-dlp
to download subtitles from YouTube and connects it to claude.ai via Model Context Protocol. Try it by asking Claude, "Summarize the YouTube video <>". Requires yt-dlp
to be installed locally e.g. via Homebrew.
How do I get this working?
- Install
yt-dlp
(Homebrew and WinGet both work great here) - Now, install this via mcp-installer, use the name
@anaisbetts/mcp-youtube
local-only server
The server can only run on the client's local machine because it depends on local resources.
Tools
Uses yt-dlp to download subtitles from YouTube and connects it to claude.ai via Model Context Protocol.
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