YouTube MCP Server

  • Browser Automation
  • Entertainment & Media
JavaScript
MIT
56
109
  • Apple
A
security – no known vulnerabilities (report Issue)
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license - permissive license (MIT)
A
quality - confirmed to work

Uses yt-dlp to download subtitles from YouTube and connects it to claude.ai via Model Context Protocol.

  1. Tools
  2. Prompts
  3. Resources
  4. Server Configuration
  5. README.md

Prompts

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

NameDescription

No prompts

Resources

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

NameDescription

No resources

Tools

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

NameDescription
download_youtube_urlDownload YouTube subtitles from a URL

Server Configuration

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault

No arguments

README.md

YouTube MCP Server

Uses yt-dlp to download subtitles from YouTube and connects it to claude.ai via Model Context Protocol. Try it by asking Claude, "Summarize the YouTube video <<URL>>". Requires yt-dlp to be installed locally e.g. via Homebrew.

How do I get this working?

  1. Install yt-dlp (Homebrew and WinGet both work great here)
  2. Now, install this via mcp-installer, use the name @anaisbetts/mcp-youtube

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