YouTube

YouTube MCP Connector for Claude

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Search for videos, retrieve detailed statistics, and audit channel performance on YouTube — the world's leading video sharing platform.

4 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner

Connect your YouTube Data API account to any AI agent and harness the power of global video intelligence through natural conversation.

What you can do

  • Universal Search — Find relevant video content by keyword or exact phrase, retrieving a list of metadata including titles and descriptions
  • Deep Video Insights — Retrieve full technical metadata for specific videos, including view counts, like counts, and engagement statistics
  • Channel Performance — Monitor any YouTube channel's branding and statistics, including total subscriber counts and video volume
  • Sentiment Analysis — Fetch the most relevant comments from any video to analyze user feedback and community engagement
  • Content Discovery — Quickly find unique video and channel IDs required for automated media monitoring workflows
  • Trend Auditing — Browse and analyze video descriptions and statistics to identify content patterns and audience interests
  • Metadata Retrieval — Get high-resolution thumbnails and precise upload timestamps for any piece of video content

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Enter your YouTube API Key (from Google Cloud Console)
  3. Start querying video data through Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client

No more manual searching through the YouTube interface to find an engagement metric. Your AI agent becomes your video data analyst.

Who is this for?

  • Marketing Managers — monitor channel growth and audit video engagement metrics through simple chat commands
  • Content Creators — analyze competitor performance and retrieve relevant user comments for sentiment feedback
  • Data Scientists — collect video metadata and statistics for trend analysis without building custom scrapers
  • Research Teams — quickly surface relevant video content and verify channel branding through conversation
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4 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

get_video

Retrieves full metadata, description, and statistics for a specific YouTube video

search_videos

Returns a list of video metadata including titles and descriptions. Search for YouTube videos by keyword or exact phrase

get_channel

Retrieves complete statistics and branding information for a YouTube channel

list_comments

Returns the most recent/relevant comment threads. Fetches the top most relevant comments from a specific YouTube video

See how to talk to your AI agent using YouTube.

Search YouTube for 'generative AI tutorials' and show me the top 5 results.

I found the top 5 videos for 'generative AI tutorials'. Highlights include: 1. 'GenAI for Beginners' (ID: abc-123), 2. 'Advanced LLM Prompting' (ID: def-456), and 3. 'Building with Stable Diffusion' (ID: ghi-789). Which one would you like the full details for?

What are the statistics for video ID 'dQw4w9WgXcQ'?

Video 'Never Gonna Give You Up' (ID: dQw4w9WgXcQ) has 1.5 billion views, 17 million likes, and approximately 2.1 million comments. It was uploaded on Oct 25, 2009. Would you like me to list the latest comments?

Check the subscriber count for channel ID 'UC_x5XG1OV2P6uYZ5M1D2ogw'.

The channel 'Google for Developers' (ID: UC_...) currently has 2.45 million subscribers and a total of 1,250 videos. The total view count across all videos is approximately 450 million.

Yes. The `get_video_details` tool allows your AI agent to retrieve full real-time statistics for any YouTube video ID, including view counts, like counts, and the total number of comments.

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