yt-dlp-mcp

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that bridges Video & Audio content with Large Language Models using yt-dlp.

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// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configPYTHONHOME

configPYTHONPATH

configRUN_INTEGRATION_TESTS

configYTDLP_COOKIES_FILE— /path/to/cookies.txt

configYTDLP_COOKIES_FROM_BROWSER— "": "chrome"

configYTDLP_DEFAULT_AUDIO_FORMAT

configYTDLP_DEFAULT_RESOLUTION

configYTDLP_DEFAULT_SUBTITLE_LANG

configYTDLP_DOWNLOADS_DIR— /path/to/downloads

configYTDLP_MAX_FILENAME_LENGTH

configYTDLP_SANITIZE_ILLEGAL_CHARS

configYTDLP_SANITIZE_REPLACE_CHAR

configYTDLP_SANITIZE_RESERVED_NAMES

configYTDLP_SANITIZE_TRUNCATE_SUFFIX

configYTDLP_TEMP_DIR_PREFIX

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commit: f480d27eace227ab68a301155c604d811c50d4f5

code hash: da14c0dbc8552a5fd634f4e3989bf48053c297fb6e7b76a423f6be659bebdb58

verified: 5/29/2026, 11:12:30 AM

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