How to connect
Same URL, five paste targets. Ready surface · Auth required. Not a safe-to-install badge. Handshake this URL
Paste into Settings → MCP or .cursor/mcp.json.
{
"mcpServers": {
"youtube": {
"url": "https://youtube.run.tools"
}
}
}
Paste into .vscode/mcp.json.
{
"mcpServers": {
"youtube": {
"url": "https://youtube.run.tools"
}
}
}
Settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web. Paste the URL. Enable in a new chat.
Claude → Settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web
Name: YouTube
URL: https://youtube.run.tools
OAuth only if this server requires it.
Save, start a new chat, enable the connector.
Developer mode custom connector. ChatGPT cannot reach localhost.
Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode ON
Create custom connector
Name: YouTube
MCP server URL: https://youtube.run.tools
Auth: none unless the server requires OAuth
New chat → + → Developer mode → enable the connector
Register the HTTPS URL, then claude mcp list.
claude mcp add --transport http youtube \
https://youtube.run.tools
Pass on session/new as mcpServers when the agent advertised HTTP MCP.
[
{
"type": "http",
"name": "youtube",
"url": "https://youtube.run.tools"
}
]
Paste into a README or docs site. The widget loads snippets from Influzer — still not a SAFE badge.
Same handshake clock as this listing (overlay / warm / seed; live tools/list only if that is missing). Indigo is live_ok, amber is auth_required, gray is unreachable. Not a SAFE badge. Stdio listings have no badge.
[](https://www.influzer.ai/mcp/probe?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.run.tools)
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<script async src="https://www.influzer.ai/embed/install.js"></script>
https://www.influzer.ai/embed/mcp/youtube.md
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Listing quality
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- Surface
- Ready surface
- Auth gate
- Auth gate
- Tools source
- tools/list (live)
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- Verification grade
- A (85)
- Last verified
- Status
- Auth required
- Response time
- 0 ms
- Auth
- Auth gate
- Transport
- http, HTTPS
- Tools indexed
- 16
- 30-day uptime
- 100% of 6 samples over 6 days
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Tools
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YOUTUBE_GET_CHANNEL_ACTIVITIESGets recent activities from a YouTube channel including video uploads, playlist additions, likes, and other channel events.
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YOUTUBE_GET_CHANNEL_ID_BY_HANDLERetrieves the YouTube Channel ID for a specific YouTube channel handle.
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YOUTUBE_GET_CHANNEL_STATISTICSGets detailed statistics for YouTube channels including subscriber counts, view counts, and video counts.
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YOUTUBE_GET_VIDEO_DETAILS_BATCHRetrieves multiple YouTube video resource parts in a single batch call. Use when you need cohort-level metrics for many videos to reduce quota usage and latency.
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YOUTUBE_LIST_CAPTION_TRACKRetrieves a list of caption tracks for a YouTube video, returning an empty list if no captions exist or failing if the video ID is invalid or not found.
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YOUTUBE_LIST_CHANNEL_VIDEOSLists videos from a specified YouTube channel, ensuring results are of `type: 'video'`.
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YOUTUBE_LIST_PLAYLIST_ITEMSTool to list videos in a playlist, with pagination support. Use when walking through a channel's uploads playlist to enumerate all videos.
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YOUTUBE_LIST_USER_PLAYLISTSRetrieves playlists owned by the authenticated user, implicitly using mine=True.
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YOUTUBE_LIST_USER_SUBSCRIPTIONSRetrieves the authenticated user's YouTube channel subscriptions, allowing specification of response parts and pagination.
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YOUTUBE_LOAD_CAPTIONSDownloads a specific YouTube caption track, which must be owned by the authenticated user, and returns its content as text. Note: This action requires you to own the video (YouTube Data API v3 restriction). Non-owned videos will return 403 Forbidden errors, including many auto-generated caption tracks.
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YOUTUBE_SEARCH_YOU_TUBESearches YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists using a query term, returning the raw API response.
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YOUTUBE_SUBSCRIBE_CHANNELSubscribes the authenticated user to a specified YouTube channel, identified by its unique `channelId` which must be valid and existing.
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YOUTUBE_UPDATE_THUMBNAILSets the custom thumbnail for a YouTube video using an image from thumbnailUrl; the authenticated user must have permission to edit the video.
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YOUTUBE_UPDATE_VIDEOUpdates metadata for a YouTube video identified by videoId, which must exist; an empty list for tags removes all existing tags.
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YOUTUBE_UPLOAD_VIDEOUploads a video from a local file path to a YouTube channel; the video file must be in a YouTube-supported format.
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YOUTUBE_VIDEO_DETAILSRetrieves specified information parts (e.g., snippet, contentDetails, statistics) for a YouTube video, identified by its ID.
Tool source: tools/list (live) · last probed 2026-11-05