| I have a long YouTube watch-later playlist and wanted Claude to help me triage it by summarizing each video. It couldn't. I later discovered YouTube is not accessible to Claude, ChatGPT and majority of AIs. So I built this MCP server to fix that. This is a local MCP server that gives any MCP-compatible client (Claude, ChatGPT, OpenClaw and others) 8 tools for working with YouTube content: - fetch full transcript, with or without timestamps
- download transcript as a .md file
- get video metadata (title, channel, views, duration, likes, description)
- search within captions for a keyword or phrase
- download video or audio No YouTube API key. No account. No signup. Everything runs locally on your machine against publicly available data. Setup is one line:
npx @umbertotancorre/youtube-mcp yt-dlp and ffmpeg are bundled automatically during install, so there's nothing to configure manually. It's free and MIT licensed. Feedbacks are welcome. |