# youtube-context-mcp

> A small MCP server giving agents YouTube video context: transcripts, deep links, and metadata

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/youtube-context-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/realiti4/youtube-context-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/realiti4/youtube-context-mcp
- version: 0.6.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, metadata, model-context-protocol, subtitles, transcript, youtube
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:youtube-context-mcp

### Description (declared)

# youtube-context-mcp

An [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server that gives agents rich context about any
YouTube video — what's said, what's popular, and what's on screen:

- **Transcript** — plain or `[mm:ss]`-timestamped text, with optional translation
- **Deep links** — `watch?v=…&t=…` URLs that jump straight to a moment
- **Metadata** — title, channel, upload date, duration, view/like counts, chapters, tags
- **Most-replayed moments** — the peaks of YouTube's viewer-interest heatmap
- **Visuals** (for multimodal models) — a still frame at any moment, or a tiled preview sheet
  of the whole video

Agents use it to answer questions about a video, summarize it, pull quotes, surface highlights,
read what's on screen, or link you to exactly where something is said.

It builds on [`youtube-transcript-api`](https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api)
(transcripts) and [`yt-dlp`](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) (metadata), which do the actual
fetching, and shapes them into a focused set of MCP tools designed for agents.

> Transcripts are a video's **existing captions/subtitles** — it does **not** transcribe audio
> (no Whisper/ASR). Videos without captions have no transcript to return.

## Install

Run it on demand with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) (no install needed):

```bash
uvx youtube-context-mcp@latest
```

Or install it:

```bash
pip install youtube-context-mcp
```

## Use it with an agent

Add it to your MCP client config:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-context": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["youtube-context-mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}
```

Or, in Claude Code:

```bash
claude mcp add youtube-context -- uvx youtube-context-mcp@latest
```

### Running over HTTP

By default the server talks **stdio** (the client launches it). If your client runs on a
different host — for example LM Studio on Windows while this server runs in WSL2 — run it as a
long-lived HTTP server instead and point the client at a URL:

```bash
youtube-c…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- media.video-editing (1, declared)
- media.speech-recognition (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/youtube-context-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T16:23:28.532Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/youtube-context-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/youtube-context-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:youtube-context-mcp