YouTube MCP Server
Ytmcp MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Ytmcp directly instead of describing what you should do. YouTube MCP Server.
The server supports three access tiers. Pick the one that fits your use case.
Once Ytmcp is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
get_video_transcript — Nonesearch_content — API Keyget_video_metadata — API Keyget_channel_metadata — API Keylist_trending_videos — API Keylist_playlists — API Keylist_playlist_items — API Keylist_video_comments — API Keylist_comment_replies — API Keylist_video_captions — API Keylist_video_categories — API Keylist_channel_activities — API Keynpm on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
You will need 5 environment variables: GOOGLE_API_KEY, GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID, GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET, YOUR_KEY, YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY. 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. Ytmcp's toolset — get_video_transcript, search_content, get_video_metadata and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by mrsknetwork; 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We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.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_video_transcript | None |
| search_content | API Key |
| get_video_metadata | API Key |
| get_channel_metadata | API Key |
| list_trending_videos | API Key |
| list_playlists | API Key |
| list_playlist_items | API Key |
| list_video_comments | API Key |
| list_comment_replies | API Key |
| list_video_captions | API Key |
| list_video_categories | API Key |
| list_channel_activities | API Key |
| list_channel_sections | API Key |
| list_supported_languages | API Key |
{
"mcpServers": {
"youtube-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@mrsknetwork/ytmcp@latest"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| GOOGLE_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| YOUR_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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