Youtube Download API MCP Server

by jojapi Your server? Claim it

answering

Youtube Download API is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Youtube Download API: Download audio and video from YouTube. On the JoJ API marketplace.

Uptime history 13 days of history

13 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

291 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Youtube Download API every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add youtube-download-api --transport http https://mcp.jojapi.com/youtube-download-api

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-download-api": {
      "url": "https://mcp.jojapi.com/youtube-download-api"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.youtube-download-api]
url = "https://mcp.jojapi.com/youtube-download-api"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-download-api": {
      "url": "https://mcp.jojapi.com/youtube-download-api"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-download-api": {
      "url": "https://mcp.jojapi.com/youtube-download-api"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

ajax

get_ajax_download_php

Submits a new download job for the given `url` in the requested `format`. Returns a unique `id` you can pass to the Progress endpoint to poll for completion and retrieve the final download URL. Billing per call: 1 Credits.

get_ajax_progress

Polls the status of a previously-submitted download job. Keep polling until `progress == 1000` (i.e. 100%) and `download_url` is populated. Billing per call: 1 Credits.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.jojapi.com/youtube-download-api	streamable-http	answering	206 ms	2 min ago

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Youtube Download API — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Youtube Download API do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_ajax_download_php, get_ajax_progress. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Youtube Download API working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 291 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Youtube Download API?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Youtube Download API need an API key?

No. Youtube Download API completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Youtube Download API?

It answers our handshake in 291 ms on average, which is faster than 58% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.