A straightforward bridge to YouTube's Data API v3 that covers the full spectrum from zero-config transcript extraction to OAuth-gated membership data. The transcript tool uses yt-dlp and works immediately with no credentials. Add an API key and you unlock search with filtering by date, duration, and region, plus metadata, comments, trending videos, and caption tracks. OAuth adds private subscriptions and channel membership rosters. The tool list is comprehensive: 20+ operations including handle-based channel lookup, playlist enumeration, activity feeds, and category discovery across regions. If you're building workflows that need to pull YouTube data into Claude without writing API client code, this does the plumbing.
claude mcp add --transport stdio mrsknetwork-ytmcp uvx ytmcp