getChannelTopVideos

Retrieve the most viewed videos from any YouTube channel to analyze popular content and identify successful video strategies.

Instructions

Retrieves the top videos from a specific channel. Returns a list of the most viewed or popular videos from the channel, based on view count. Use this when you want to identify the most successful content from a channel.

Input Schema

Name	Required	Description	Default
`channelId`	Yes	YouTube channel ID to get top videos from
`descriptionDetail`	No	Controls video description detail to manage token cost. Options: 'NONE' (default, no text), 'SNIPPET' (a brief preview for broad scans), 'LONG' (a 500-char text for deep analysis of specific targets).	NONE
`includeTags`	No	Specify 'true' to include the video's 'tags' array in the response, which is useful for extracting niche keywords. The 'tags' are omitted by default to conserve tokens.
`maxResults`	No	Maximum number of top videos to return (1-500, default: 10)

Input Schema (JSON Schema)

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "channelId": {
      "description": "YouTube channel ID to get top videos from",
      "minLength": 1,
      "type": "string"
    },
    "descriptionDetail": {
      "default": "NONE",
      "description": "Controls video description detail to manage token cost. Options: 'NONE' (default, no text), 'SNIPPET' (a brief preview for broad scans), 'LONG' (a 500-char text for deep analysis of specific targets).",
      "enum": [
        "NONE",
        "SNIPPET",
        "LONG"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "includeTags": {
      "default": false,
      "description": "Specify 'true' to include the video's 'tags' array in the response, which is useful for extracting niche keywords. The 'tags' are omitted by default to conserve tokens.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "maxResults": {
      "default": 10,
      "description": "Maximum number of top videos to return (1-500, default: 10)",
      "maximum": 500,
      "minimum": 1,
      "type": "number"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "channelId"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

mcp-youtube

getChannelTopVideos

Instructions

Input Schema

Input Schema (JSON Schema)

Other Tools from mcp-youtube

Related Tools

MCP directory API