YTAPI MCP Server

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YTAPI is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. Last commit 9 Oct 2026.

YouTube transcripts, video details, search, channels and playlists. OAuth sign-in or API key.

Uptime history 5 days of history

5 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

243 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 9 Oct 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check YTAPI 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 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add youtube --transport http https://api.ytapi.dev/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "url": "https://api.ytapi.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.youtube]
url = "https://api.ytapi.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "url": "https://api.ytapi.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "url": "https://api.ytapi.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.ytapi.dev/mcp	streamable-http	sign-in	188 ms	8 min ago

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YTAPI — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for YTAPI?

The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.

Is YTAPI working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 243 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect YTAPI?

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. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.

How do you sign in to YTAPI?

No API key is involved. YTAPI answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.

How fast is YTAPI?

It answers our handshake in 243 ms on average, which is faster than 55% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is YTAPI open source?

No, and the distinction matters: its licence is declared as MIT-0. That makes it source-available — you can read the code, but the terms are the author's own, not one of the recognised open-source licences. Read them before you build on it.