MCP server for extracting public and credential-enabled video platform metadata.
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# YouTube MCP [中文文档](README_CN.md) <!-- mcp-name: io.github.JianxunRao/youtube-mcp --> YouTube MCP is a Model Context Protocol server for extracting video-platform metadata and context from YouTube and BiliBili. It is designed for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible agents that need searchable video context, subtitles, comments, playlists, streams, danmaku, and live-room metadata. The server runs locally over stdio and does not require a browser extension or a hosted backend. ## Features - Search videos, channels, playlists, anime/PGC entries, and BiliBili media results. - Resolve arbitrary supported URLs or IDs with `detect_url` and `resolve_url`. - Extract video metadata, thumbnails, playability status, related items, tags, and available stream URLs or manifests. - Fetch subtitles and convert them to `raw`, `json`, `text`, `srt`, or `vtt`. - Fetch YouTube comments and BiliBili comments. - Fetch BiliBili danmaku for regular videos and PGC episodes. - Fetch YouTube playlists, BiliBili favorites, BiliBili collections, and BiliBili PGC season lists. - Fetch YouTube channel and BiliBili uploader metadata with recent videos. - Fetch YouTube live-video metadata and BiliBili live-room stream information. - Fetch YouTube SponsorBlock skip segments. - Expose MCP tools, resources, and prompt templates. ## Supported Inputs | Platform | Supported IDs and URLs | | --- | --- | | YouTube | watch URLs, youtu.be URLs, shorts URLs, live URLs, video IDs, playlist IDs/URLs, channel IDs, handles, channel URLs | | BiliBili | BV IDs, AV IDs, video URLs, `ep` IDs/URLs, `ss` IDs/URLs, favorite `ml` IDs/URLs, space collection URLs, live room IDs/URLs | ## Limitations - The project does not bypass paid content, DRM, private videos, region restrictions, age gates, or account permissions. - If you provide cookies through environment variables, the server can parse content that the underlying platform API returns for that account. - YouTube danmaku-style comments are no…
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