Provides integration with YouTube, enabling interaction with YouTube data and functionality.
YouTube MCP
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for YouTube integration.
Prerequisites
Install uv
On Mac:
On Windows:
After installation on Windows, add uv to your PATH:
Claude Desktop Integration
To use this MCP server with Claude Desktop, you need to add it to your Claude Desktop configuration.
- Open your Claude Desktop configuration file:
- Mac:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
- Windows:
%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
- Mac:
- Add the following configuration to your
mcpServers
section (replace/path/to/your/youtube-mcp
with the actual path to this project folder):
Important: Make sure to replace:
/path/to/your/youtube-mcp
with the actual path to where you cloned/downloaded this project/Users/your-username/.local/bin/uv
with the correct path to your uv installation (on Windows this would typically beC:\Users\your-username\.local\bin\uv.exe
)
- Save the file and restart Claude Desktop
Usage
Once configured, the YouTube MCP server will be available in Claude Desktop and you can use it to interact with YouTube data and functionality.
Development
This project uses uv for dependency management. The dependencies are defined in pyproject.toml
and the lockfile is uv.lock
.
To run the server locally:
This server cannot be installed
A Model Context Protocol server that enables Claude to interact with YouTube data and functionality through the Claude Desktop application.
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