YouTube Transcript, Comments & Video Data API MCP Server

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YouTube Transcript, Comments & Video Data API MCP Server is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. 269 installs a week from npm. It exposes 8 tools.

Real-time YouTube transcripts, comments, channels & video search MCP. Local npx or hosted OAuth.

Installs per day peak 174 · avg 8

a month agotoday

Uptime history 6 days of history · worst day 0%

6 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 182 checks

Tools

read from the server

327 ms

Response time

average over 24h

269

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

YouTube Transcript, Comments & Video Data API MCP Server does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 34.6% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp-server --transport http https://api.youtubeapi.io/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://api.youtubeapi.io/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp-server]
url = "https://api.youtubeapi.io/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://api.youtubeapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.youtubeapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This server publishes 1 more address. The block above uses the one we reach during checks; the full list is under Endpoints below, and the author may intend a particular one for your client.

Available tools 8

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

youtube

youtube_channel

Resolve any YouTube channel handle (@handle), channel ID (UC...), or vanity URL to get subscriber count, video count, bio, avatar, and banner.

youtube_channel_shorts

List a YouTube channel's uploaded Shorts feed sorted by newest or popular.

youtube_channel_videos

List a YouTube channel's uploaded videos feed sorted by newest, popular, or oldest.

youtube_comments

Extract top or newest video comments with author channel info, upvote count, reply count, published time, and continuation token for pagination.

youtube_search

Search YouTube videos, Shorts, channels, or playlists by query string with filters for type, duration, upload date, and sort order.

youtube_transcript

Extract timed subtitle segments (offset_ms, duration_ms) and complete plain-text transcript for any YouTube video or Short. Supports auto-generated and manual caption tracks in all languages.

youtube_trending

Fetch currently trending YouTube videos by country code and category.

youtube_video_info

Fetch full YouTube video metadata including title, description, viewCount, likeCount, duration_seconds, upload_date, tags, chapters, keywords, and channel details.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.youtubeapi.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	327 ms	14 min ago
https://mcp.youtubeapi.io/v1/mcp	streamable-http	answering	327 ms	14 min ago

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YouTube Transcript, Comments & Video Data API MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can YouTube Transcript, Comments & Video Data API MCP Server do?

It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: youtube_channel, youtube_channel_shorts, youtube_channel_videos, youtube_comments, youtube_search, youtube_transcript and 2 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 →

Is YouTube Transcript, Comments & Video Data API MCP Server working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 182 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 327 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists YouTube Transcript, Comments & Video Data API MCP Server as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect YouTube Transcript, Comments & Video Data API MCP Server?

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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does YouTube Transcript, Comments & Video Data API MCP Server need an API key?

No. YouTube Transcript, Comments & Video Data API MCP Server completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How many people use YouTube Transcript, Comments & Video Data API MCP Server?

The npm package @kaitoinfra/youtubeapi-mcp-server was installed 269 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.