YouTube MCP Server

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YouTube MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping.

YouTube MCP server: search videos, read stats and comments, run analytics, manage playlists.

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Installs / week

npm · @renzo.johnson/youtube-mcp

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check YouTube MCP 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

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add youtube-mcp -- npx -y @renzo.johnson/youtube-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@renzo.johnson/youtube-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.youtube-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@renzo.johnson/youtube-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@renzo.johnson/youtube-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "youtube-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@renzo.johnson/youtube-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS (Path to a service account key or authorized_user JSON file. Optional if you use gcloud Application Default Credentials or the OAuth variables), GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID (OAuth client ID. Set together with the client secret and refresh token), GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET (OAuth client secret), GOOGLE_OAUTH_REFRESH_TOKEN (OAuth refresh token with the YouTube scopes).

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YouTube MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for YouTube MCP?

YouTube MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package @renzo.johnson/youtube-mcp.

How do I connect YouTube MCP?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @renzo.johnson/youtube-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.