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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