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YouTube DataMCP Server
Summary
Search YouTube, read video transcripts, and pull channel statistics from an AI client.
Features
- Search videos and retrieve full metadata
- Fetch transcripts in multiple languages
- Channel statistics and trending video lookup
Installation
Set up this MCP server in your favorite AI agent — copy a ready-made configuration below.
Description
This MCP server connects an assistant to the YouTube Data API, with transcript retrieval as the feature that makes it genuinely useful.
What it provides
- Video search with filters for date, duration, and relevance
- Video details — title, description, statistics, tags, and publication data
- Transcripts in available languages, which is the whole point: a transcript turns an hour-long video into text an assistant can summarise, quote, and answer questions from
- Channel information and statistics
- Related videos and trending lists by region and category
Where it is genuinely valuable
Research. Conference talks, technical deep-dives, interviews, and tutorials contain a lot of information that exists nowhere in text form. Being able to say "summarise this talk and pull out the part about deployment" is a real capability rather than a novelty.
It is also useful for content analysis — comparing how a topic is covered across channels, or tracking what is performing in a category.
Setup
Requires a YouTube Data API key from Google Cloud. The API has a daily quota, so heavy searching can exhaust it. Runs with npx -y youtube-data-mcp-server.
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