YouTube MCP Server

Integrates YouTube with Claude Code, enabling video transcript retrieval, search, metadata extraction, channel info, playlists, comments, trending videos, engagement analytics, chapter extraction, SponsorBlock integration, and most-replayed heatmaps.

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// key findings

⚠️

Known vulnerabilities in dependencies: 2 high

Affects packages this MCP installs at runtime. Upgrade or remove the affected dependency.

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

🔐

You'll be asked for 1 credential: YOUTUBE_API_KEY

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

// required environment variables

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

🔐 secretYOUTUBE_API_KEY— claude mcp add -s user youtube -e =YOUR_API_KEY -- node /full/path/to/dist/index.js

configYOUTUBE_TIMEOUT— No 30000 API timeout in ms

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commit: 47efbaabeec54af3fa09a57dedb9e748b6ed987d

code hash: 1b2bfcb1850490c23f87c721cce483cd8b471108783b77e195b509b7afdb562f

verified: 6/11/2026, 12:11:07 PM

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