An MCP server for YouTube video summarization
An MCP server for YouTube video summarization. The youtube video summarizer mcp mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 3 defined tools rather than through you.
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that enables AI assistants to analyze and summarize YouTube videos by extracting captions, descriptions, and metadata.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
get-video-info-for-summary-from-url — Extract video information and captions from a YouTube URLget-video-captions — Get captions/subtitles for a specific videoget-video-metadata — Retrieve comprehensive video metadataYou will need one environment variable: VIDEO_ID. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
The server ships on npm as output, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Youtube Video Summarizer MCP's toolset — get-video-info-for-summary-from-url, get-video-captions, get-video-metadata — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by nabid-pf; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Youtube Video Summarizer MCP's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| get-video-info-for-summary-from-url | Extract video information and captions from a YouTube URL |
| get-video-captions | Get captions/subtitles for a specific video |
| get-video-metadata | Retrieve comprehensive video metadata |
{
"mcpServers": {
"youtube-video-summarizer": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "youtube-video-summarizer-mcp"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| VIDEO_ID | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
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