mcp-youtube-intelligence

MCP server for extracting structured intelligence from YouTube channels and videos.

What it does

Analyzes YouTube channels to produce structured intelligence reports:

• Transcript extraction across recent videos (up to 50 videos)

• Semantic topic extraction per video via Gemini (theme, named entities, tags)

• Keyword frequency analysis across all transcripts (fallback when Gemini is unavailable)

Related MCP server: youtube-mcp

Prerequisites

You need API keys for three services:

GEMINI_API_KEY is optional — if omitted, the tool falls back to word-frequency topic extraction instead of semantic analysis.

Optional

Installation

npm install -g mcp-youtube-intelligence

Usage

Add to your Claude Desktop / MCP client config:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-intelligence": {
      "command": "mcp-youtube-intelligence",
      "env": {
        "YOUTUBE_API_KEY": "your-youtube-api-key",
        "APIFY_TOKEN": "your-apify-token",
        "GEMINI_API_KEY": "your-gemini-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Tools

analyze_channel — Extract intelligence from a YouTube channel

channel_url: YouTube channel URL or @handle (e.g. @fireship, youtube.com/@fireship)
max_videos:  Number of recent videos to analyze (default: 5)

Example prompt: "Analyze the @fireship YouTube channel and tell me what topics they cover most."

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm test

License

MIT