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Youtube MCP

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Transcribe YouTube videos to text using yt-dlp for audio and OpenAI Whisper for transcription, with chunked output for long videos.

Source code Documentation

Install

The installation steps are in the documentation below. Documentation

Documentation

From the project's README on GitHub, refreshed weekly. Links open on GitHub.

Contents
  1. youtube_mcp
  2. Demo Video
  3. Requirements:
  4. Server installation
  5. Client configuration

youtube_mcp

Youtube transcribation MCP server

Demo Video

Click the image above to watch the demo video

Requirements:

  • OpenAI API key
  • Cookies

Server installation

  • Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/format37/youtube_mcp.git cd youtube_mcp nano .env
  • Extract your cookies. See cookies.md Place cookies.txt in the ./mcp/ folder.
  • Generate MCP_KEY: python token_generator.py
  • Define .env: CONTAINER_NAME=youtube_mcp_main PORT=7001 MCP_KEY=YOUR-MCP-KEY OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR-OPENAI-KRY
  • Provide run access sudo chmod +x compose.sh sudo chmod +x logs.sh sudo chmod +x update.sh
  • Run ./compose.sh
  • Check that port is opened for incoming connections.

Client configuration

  1. Add Bybit server to the Claude desktop config: Example: { "mcpServers": { "youtube": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "http://localhost:7001/sse", "--header", "Authorization:YOUR-TOKEN", "--allow-http" ], "disabled": false } } } ## Client side `
  2. Restart Claude desktop
  3. Check that tws tools are listed in the tools list. Ask Claude to check ibkr account

Frequently asked questions

What is Youtube MCP?

Transcribe YouTube videos to text using yt-dlp for audio and OpenAI Whisper for transcription, with chunked output for long videos.

How do I install Youtube MCP?

Follow the installation steps in its documentation, shown on this page and in its repository.

Is Youtube MCP open source?

Its code is public on GitHub, but the repository does not declare a standard license.

Who maintains Youtube MCP?

It is published by format37. AI.tn lists it but does not maintain or endorse it.

From the community awesome-mcp-servers lists and the project's GitHub repository. Listing is not an endorsement: review a server's code and permissions before giving it access to your data.