YouTube
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Search YouTube videos and retrieve their transcripts using the YouTube API.
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- bendelpino
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Setup
Install YouTube in your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and others).
Repository: https://github.com/bendelpino/youtube-mcp
Follow the installation instructions in the repository README, then restart your MCP client.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables Claude Desktop (and other applications) to interact with YouTube, providing search and transcript functionality.
- Search YouTube Videos: Search for videos with customizable result counts
- Get Video Transcripts: Extract transcripts from YouTube videos using URLs or video IDs
- AI-Ready Integration: Seamlessly integrates with Claude Desktop for YouTube content analysis
- Purpose: Search YouTube for videos based on a query
- Parameters:
- search_term(string): The search query
- num_videos(int): Number of videos to return (default: 5, max: 50)
- Purpose: Extract transcript from a YouTube video
- Parameters:
- video_url_or_title(string): YouTube video URL or video ID
- Purpose: AI prompt template for comprehensive YouTube content analysis
- Parameters:
- search_term(string): Topic to analyze
- num_videos(int): Number of videos to analyze
# Create virtual environment python3 -m venv .venv # Activate virtual environment source .venv/bin/activate # Install dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt
# Copy example environment file cp .env.example .env # Edit .env and add your YouTube API key YOUTUBE_API_KEY=your_actual_api_key_here
# Activate virtual environment source .venv/bin/activate # Run the server python youtube_server.py
Add this configuration to your Claude Desktop MCP settings:
{ "mcpServers": { "youtube": { "command": "local/path/to/uv", "args": [ "run", "--directory", "/Path/to/your/project", "youtube_server.py" ], "env": { "YOUTUBE_API_KEY": "your_key_here" } } }
Once integrated with Claude Desktop, you can:
- "Search for videos about machine learning and get transcripts"
- "Find the latest videos on climate change and analyze their content"
- "Get the transcript of this YouTube video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..."
- "Compare different perspectives on AI ethics from YouTube videos"
- Missing API Key: Server will warn and search functionality will be limited
- Invalid Video IDs: Clear error messages for transcript requests
- API Limits: Respects YouTube API quotas and rate limits
- Missing Transcripts: Handles videos without available captions
- fastmcp: MCP server framework
- google-api-python-client: YouTube Data API access
- youtube-transcript-api: Transcript extraction
This project is open source and available under standard licensing terms.
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