YouTube MCP Server
Uses yt-dlp
to download subtitles from YouTube and connects it to claude.ai via Model Context Protocol. Try it by asking Claude, “Summarize the YouTube video <yt-dlp
to be installed locally e.g. via Homebrew.
How do I get this working?
Install yt-dlp
(Homebrew and WinGet both work great here)
# macOS
brew install yt-dlp
# Windows
winget install yt-dlp
Parameters
url
: YouTube video URL (required)language
: Subtitle language code (optional, default: ‘ja’)- Uses ISO 639-1 language codes
- Common language codes:
ja
: Japaneseen
: Englishko
: Koreanzh
: Chinesefr
: French
- Note: An error will occur if subtitles in the specified language do not exist
Example
{
"mcpServers": {
"youtube": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@kazuph/mcp-youtube"]
}
}
}
@kazuph/mcp-youtube
Project Details
- kazuph/mcp-youtube
- @kazuph/mcp-youtube
- MIT License
- Last Updated: 3/16/2025
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