YouTube MCP Server

yt-mcp-server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server built with mcp-framework.

Quick Start

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build

Project Structure

yt-mcp-server/
├── src/
│   ├── tools/        # MCP Tools
│   │   └── ExampleTool.ts
│   └── index.ts      # Server entry point
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json

Adding Components

The project comes with an example tool in src/tools/ExampleTool.ts. You can add more tools using the CLI:

# Add a new tool
mcp add tool my-tool

# Example tools you might create:
mcp add tool data-processor
mcp add tool api-client
mcp add tool file-handler

Tool Development

Example tool structure:

import { MCPTool } from "mcp-framework";
import { z } from "zod";

interface MyToolInput {
  message: string;
}

class MyTool extends MCPTool<MyToolInput> {
  name = "my_tool";
  description = "Describes what your tool does";

  schema = {
    message: {
      type: z.string(),
      description: "Description of this input parameter",
    },
  };

  async execute(input: MyToolInput) {
    // Your tool logic here
    return `Processed: ${input.message}`;
  }
}

export default MyTool;

Publishing to npm

Update your package.json:
- Ensure name is unique and follows npm naming conventions
- Set appropriate version
- Add description, author, license, etc.
- Check bin points to the correct entry file
Build and test locally:
npm run build npm link yt-mcp-server # Test your CLI locally
Login to npm (create account if necessary):
npm login
Publish your package:
npm publish

After publishing, users can add it to their claude desktop client (read below) or run it with npx

## Using with Claude Desktop

### Local Development

Add this configuration to your Claude Desktop config file:

**MacOS**: `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`
**Windows**: `%APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yt-mcp-server": {
      "command": "node",
      "args":["/absolute/path/to/yt-mcp-server/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

After Publishing

Add this configuration to your Claude Desktop config file:

MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yt-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["yt-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Building and Testing

Make changes to your tools
Run npm run build to compile
The server will automatically load your tools on startup

Learn More

Install Server

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security – no known vulnerabilities

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quality - confirmed to work

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local-only server

The server can only run on the client's local machine because it depends on local resources.

A Model Context Protocol server that provides Claude with tools to interact with YouTube, built on the mcp-framework.

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