Schema | YouTube MCP Server

YouTube MCP Server

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description	Default
`YOUTUBE_API_KEY`	No	Primary YouTube Data API key
`YOUTUBE_API_KEY2`	No	Secondary fallback API key
`YOUTUBE_API_KEY3`	No	Third fallback API key
`YOUTUBE_TRANSCRIPT_LANG`	No	Default language for transcripts	en

Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.

This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.

Features and capabilities supported by this server

Protocol revision2025-11-25

Capability	Details
`tools`	{}

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
videos_getVideoB	Get detailed information about a YouTube video
videos_searchVideosC	Search for videos on YouTube
transcripts_getTranscriptC	Get the transcript of a YouTube video
channels_getChannelC	Get information about a YouTube channel
channels_getChannelsC	Get information about multiple YouTube channels
channels_searchChannelsC	Search for YouTube channels by handle, name, or query
channels_findCreatorsB	Find creator channels from video mentions with subscriber band and recent activity filters in one call
channels_listVideosC	Get videos from a specific channel
playlists_getPlaylistC	Get information about a YouTube playlist
playlists_getPlaylistItemsB	Get videos in a YouTube playlist

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
No prompts

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

Name	Description
No resources

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