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Youtube MCP Server

by jojapi Your server? Claim it
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Youtube is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 20 tools.

YouTube: YouTube Data API, you can add various YouTube features to your app. Use the API for.

Uptime history 13 days of history
13 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
20
Tools
read from the server
309 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

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

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add youtube --transport http https://mcp.jojapi.com/youtube
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "url": "https://mcp.jojapi.com/youtube"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.youtube]
url = "https://mcp.jojapi.com/youtube"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "url": "https://mcp.jojapi.com/youtube"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "url": "https://mcp.jojapi.com/youtube"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 20

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

channel
get_v1_channel_channels
Channel Channels Group: Channel. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v1_channel_community
Channel Community Group: Channel. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v1_channel_details
Channel Details Group: Channel. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v1_channel_playlists
Channel Playlists Group: Channel. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v1_channel_search
Channel Search Group: Channel. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v1_channel_videos
Channel Videos Group: Channel. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
video
get_v1_video_comments
Video Comments Group: Video. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v1_video_details
Video Details Group: Video. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v1_video_related_contents
Video Related Contents Group: Video. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v1_video_streaming_data
(Some videos may be protected.) Group: Video. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v2_video_details
Video Details (v2) Group: Video. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
community
get_v1_community_post_comments
Community Post Comments Group: Community Post. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v1_community_post_details
Community Post Details Group: Community Post. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
playlist
get_v1_playlist_details
Playlist Details Group: Playlist. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get_v1_playlist_videos
Playlist Videos Group: Playlist. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
auto
get_v1_auto_complete
Auto Complete Group: Explore. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
get
get_v1_search
Search Group: Explore. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
home
get_v1_home
Home Group: Explore. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
post
post_channel_videos
Channel Videos Group: Channel. Billing per call: 1 Credits.
trending
get_v2_trending
Trending Group: Explore. Billing per call: 1 Credits.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.jojapi.com/youtube streamable-http answering 433 ms 2 min ago

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Youtube — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Youtube do?
It exposes 20 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_v1_auto_complete, get_v1_channel_channels, get_v1_channel_community, get_v1_channel_details, get_v1_channel_playlists, get_v1_channel_search and 14 more. 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 →
What is Youtube mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around channel, video and community. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Youtube 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 309 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Youtube?
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 need an API key?
No. Youtube completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 20 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Youtube?
It answers our handshake in 309 ms on average, which is faster than 56% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.