A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables insight extraction from YouTube videos, including subtitle parsing, keyword-based video discovery
If you already use Youtubeinsights, the youtubeinsights mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables insight extraction from YouTube videos, including subtitle parsing, keyword-based video discovery, and channel info retrieval.
@smithery/cli on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
get_youtube_transcript — Extract full transcript (subtitles) from a YouTube video URL (supports ko, en)search_youtube_videos — Search for videos on YouTube by keyword and retrieve key metadataget_channel_info — Get channel metadata and recent uploads based on any YouTube video URLConfiguration is passed through the environment: YOUTUBE_API_KEY. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
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. Youtubeinsights's toolset — get_youtube_transcript, search_youtube_videos, get_channel_info — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by dabidstudio; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| get_youtube_transcript | Extract full transcript (subtitles) from a YouTube video URL (supports ko, en) |
| search_youtube_videos | Search for videos on YouTube by keyword and retrieve key metadata |
| get_channel_info | Get channel metadata and recent uploads based on any YouTube video URL |
{
"mcpServers": {
"youtubeinsights": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@smithery/cli"],
"env": {
"YOUTUBE_API_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| YOUTUBE_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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