MCP server for Archivarix Tube Search — search archived YouTube videos via AI assistants
MCP server for Archivarix Tube Search — search archived YouTube videos via AI assistants. Exposed over MCP by the tube search mcp mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
search_channel — Find all archived videos from a YouTube channelsearch_videos — Full-text search across video titles and descriptionsget_video — Get metadata for a specific video by IDget_subtitles — Get transcript as readable plain textget_summary — Get AI-generated video summarygenerate_summary — Generate a new AI summary for a videobrowse_summaries — Browse summaries by tag, channel, or languageget_video_status_history — View status change history of a videoget_usage — Check your current API usage and limitsCursor — The Cursor tool exposed by this servertube-search-mcp on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
You will need 2 environment variables: TUBE_API_KEY, TUBE_MCP_URL. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Tube Search MCP's toolset — search_channel, search_videos, get_video and 7 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by archivarix-com; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_channel | Find all archived videos from a YouTube channel |
| search_videos | Full-text search across video titles and descriptions |
| get_video | Get metadata for a specific video by ID |
| get_subtitles | Get transcript as readable plain text |
| get_summary | Get AI-generated video summary |
| generate_summary | Generate a new AI summary for a video |
| browse_summaries | Browse summaries by tag, channel, or language |
| get_video_status_history | View status change history of a video |
| get_usage | Check your current API usage and limits |
| Cursor | The Cursor tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"tube-search": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "tube-search-mcp"],
"env": {
"TUBE_API_KEY": "tsk_YOUR_KEY"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| TUBE_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| TUBE_MCP_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
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