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#!/bin/bash # Setup script for yt-fetch MCP server with Claude Desktop set -e echo "🚀 Setting up yt-fetch MCP server for Claude Desktop" # Check if YouTube API key is provided if [ -z "$YOUTUBE_API_KEY" ]; then echo "❌ Error: YOUTUBE_API_KEY environment variable is required" echo " Get your API key from: https://console.developers.google.com/" echo " Then run: export YOUTUBE_API_KEY='your-api-key'" exit 1 fi # Determine Claude Desktop config location based on OS if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then # macOS CONFIG_DIR="$HOME/Library/Application Support/Claude" elif [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu"* ]]; then # Linux CONFIG_DIR="$HOME/.config/Claude" else echo "❌ Unsupported OS: $OSTYPE" exit 1 fi CONFIG_FILE="$CONFIG_DIR/claude_desktop_config.json" echo "📁 Claude Desktop config location: $CONFIG_FILE" # Create config directory if it doesn't exist mkdir -p "$CONFIG_DIR" # Get absolute path of this project PROJECT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)" # Create or update Claude Desktop configuration cat > "$CONFIG_FILE" << EOF { "mcpServers": { "yt-fetch": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "run", "--project", "$PROJECT_DIR", "yt-fetch" ], "env": { "YOUTUBE_API_KEY": "$YOUTUBE_API_KEY" } } } } EOF echo "✅ Created Claude Desktop configuration at: $CONFIG_FILE" echo "" echo "📋 Configuration includes:" echo " - Server name: yt-fetch" echo " - Project path: $PROJECT_DIR" echo " - YouTube API Key: ****${YOUTUBE_API_KEY: -4}" echo "" echo "🔄 Please restart Claude Desktop to load the new MCP server" echo "" echo "🎯 Available tools after restart:" echo " - search_videos: Search YouTube with filters" echo " - get_video_details: Get detailed video information" echo " - get_channel_info: Get channel statistics" echo " - filter_videos: Apply custom filters to video lists" echo " - get_transcripts: Extract video transcripts for analysis" echo " - trending_analysis: Analyze trending videos" echo "" echo "💡 Usage example:" echo ' "Search for videos about Claude AI from the last month"'

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