niche-finder (pandich93/niche-finder) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 89 out of 100, grade B. It declares 43 tools. The publisher has proved control of what we score (Verified Publisher). It is connected through the M8ven GitHub App, so the listing is re-checked on every push.

Emerging

89/100

niche-finder

Item: niche-finder
Rating: 89
Author: M8ven

Self-hosted YouTube niche & outlier-video research tool (NexLev/vidIQ alternative) — MCP server + HTTP API + worker on YouTube Data API v3 and PostgreSQL, with a zero-build ES-modules dashboard

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Emerging. No concerning findings. Grades remain capped until the project builds reputation through adoption. Grades reflect the full trust pyramid: code, verification depth, and reputation. New projects cap at C until adoption is earned.

How we verified

Code Verified⚡ Live Monitored

every push re-verified

Who stands behind it

gmail.com (@pandich93) · Verified Publisher

Source: github_repo_search

Install from

GitHub

The grade above is for the source repository. Registries can serve a different version, so we mark the ones we were not able to read.

// key findings

✅

43 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour

28 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

🔐

You'll be asked for 2 credentials: YOUTUBE_API_KEY, POSTGRES_PASSWORD

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

Are you the publisher? Confirm or correct these findings.

// environment variables

To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.

🔐 secretYOUTUBE_API_KEY

configMCP_TRANSPORT

configMCP_HOST

configMCP_PORT

configWORKER_RSS_INTERVAL_MIN

configWORKER_ALERTS_INTERVAL_MIN

configWORKER_HOT_INTERVAL_MIN

configWORKER_DAILY_INTERVAL_MIN

configWORKER_HOT_PERIOD

configWORKER_FULL_PERIOD

configWORKER_HOT_LIMIT

configWORKER_FULL_LIMIT

configWORKER_REGIONS

configWORKER_TRENDING

configWORKER_QUERIES

configWORKER_QUERY_PERIOD

configWORKER_QUERY_PAGES

configNICHE_DATABASE_URL( важнее POSTGRES_ и остаётся хостовым: в контейнеры

configPOSTGRES_HOST

configPOSTGRES_PORTвырезают его явно). Не подменяйте это на =5433 -- ту же

configPOSTGRES_DB

configPOSTGRES_USER

🔐 secretPOSTGRES_PASSWORD

configNICHE_DB_SCHEMA

configFRONTEND_DIR

configRATE_LIMIT_PER_MINUTE

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code hash: e3cb4c8dd4c7e53dd99475af4801b59326932ec3861384da567f2295bc08efa3

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