YouTube is the world's largest library of expert knowledge — tutorials, talks, reviews, deep dives. But AI agents can't watch videos.
Youtube is an MCP project maintained in the cactusaurelius/youtube-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “YouTube is the world's largest library of expert knowledge — tutorials, talks, reviews, deep dives. But AI agents can't watch videos”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The documented npm package is @inlustris/youtube-mcp. The configuration below comes from the maintainer’s example; adapt its paths and account values to your environment.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.
{
"mcpServers": {
"youtube": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@inlustris/youtube-mcp@latest"
]
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
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