# yt-dlp-mcp-server

> Production-grade MCP server that lets LLM agents inspect, plan, download, and postprocess media URLs with yt-dlp, including YouTube and youtu.be links. 28 typed tools, managed output roots, safe argv execution, full yt-dlp option catalog.

Record `yt-dlp-mcp-server` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/yt-dlp-mcp-server/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/yt-dlp-mcp-server
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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/yt-dlp-mcp-server/claim

## Declared
- publisher: antonio-orionus
- homepage: https://github.com/antonio-orionus/yt-dlp-mcp-server#readme
- repository: git+https://github.com/antonio-orionus/yt-dlp-mcp-server.git
- version: 0.2.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, claude, ai, agent, yt-dlp, youtube, video, audio, download, subtitle, transcript, playlist, postprocess, ffmpeg, sponsorblock
- endpoints:
  - package_npm: npm:yt-dlp-mcp-server

### Description (declared)

Production-grade MCP server that lets LLM agents inspect, plan, download, and postprocess media URLs with yt-dlp, including YouTube and youtu.be links. 28 typed tools, managed output roots, safe argv execution, full yt-dlp option catalog.

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

## Provenance
- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/yt-dlp-mcp-server (first seen 2026-09-05T18:19:20.176Z)

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