youtube-mcp-server

# YouTube MCP(Model Context Protcol) Server ---- This MCP server provides a tool to fetch and extract transcripts from YouTube videos. It enables AI language models (LLMs) to: - Access complete text transcripts from YouTube video URLs - Process and analyze video content through transcripts - Reference and discuss video information in conversations The server acts as a bridge between AI models and YouTube content by automatically extracting and formatting video transcripts. Instead of saying can't access links  ## Setup 1. Install uv (Python package manager): **Mac:** ```bash brew install uv ``` **Linux:** ```bash curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh ``` **Windows:** ```powershell powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex" ``` 2. Clone this repository: ```bash git clone git@github.com:PrajwalPrashanth/youtube-mcp-server.git cd youtube-mcp-server ``` 3. Create a virtual environment and install dependencies: ```bash uv venv source .venv/bin/activate # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate uv pip install -r pyproject.toml ``` ## Add this MCP server to Claude Desktop ([download](https://claude.ai/download)) ```bash uv run mcp install -e . server.py -n "youtube-mcp" ``` Once this is done you should see the tool icon in the UI  and you can ask for it to do actions (like summarize) with the transcript by providing a YT video