# YouTube MCP Server

> Use this tool when you need to integrate YouTube data into your applications, enabling features like video transcript retrieval, metadata extraction, and engagement analytics. It solves problems related to video content analysis, search, and discovery, providing inputs like video IDs, keywords, or channels, and outputs like transcripts, metadata, and analytics data. Ideal for use cases involving video content management, research, or monitoring, such as social media tracking or content optimization.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/wynandw87-claude-code-youtube-mcp  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/wynandw87-claude-code-youtube-mcp

## Description

Integrates YouTube with Claude Code, enabling video transcript retrieval, search, metadata extraction, channel info, playlists, comments, trending videos, engagement analytics, chapter extraction, SponsorBlock integration, and most-replayed heatmaps.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.69
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-01

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** social-media
- **Updated:** 2026-09-01

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/r9g47gmhft)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/wynandw87/claude-code-youtube-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "wynandw87-claude-code-youtube-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/wynandw87-claude-code-youtube-mcp` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/wynandw87-claude-code-youtube-mcp/pull`

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