# yt-music-mcp

> MCP server for YouTube Music — lets AI agents search, browse, and manage your library via ytmusicapi.

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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-music-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Thanaen
- homepage: https://github.com/Thanaen/yt-music-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/Thanaen/yt-music-mcp
- version: 0.1.1
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: ai-agents, claude, mcp, youtube-music, ytmusicapi
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:yt-music-mcp

### Description (declared)

# yt-music-mcp

An [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server that exposes [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com) to AI agents, via [`ytmusicapi`](https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi).

Agents can search the catalog, browse artists/albums/songs, read the user's library and history, and create/edit/delete playlists, rate songs, and manage subscriptions.

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## Quickstart

You need two things in your config:

1. **A way to run the server** — recommended: `uvx yt-music-mcp` (no install needed, [`uv`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) fetches it on first use).
2. **Your YouTube Music auth** — a one-time capture of request headers from `music.youtube.com`, stored either inline in the config or in a `browser.json` file.

### 1. Capture auth (one time, ~2-year validity)

Skip this if you only need public search/browsing.

1. Open <https://music.youtube.com> in a desktop browser, logged in.
2. Open DevTools (F12) → **Network** tab.
3. Click around to trigger traffic, then find any request to `/youtubei/v1/...`.
4. Right-click that request → **Copy** → **Copy request headers**.

Then run **one** of:

```bash
# Option A — print the JSON to stdout so you can paste it into your config.
uvx yt-music-mcp setup-auth --stdout

# Option B — write a browser.json file you'll reference by path.
uvx yt-music-mcp setup-auth --out ~/.yt-music-mcp/browser.json
```

Paste your headers when prompted, then Ctrl-D (Ctrl-Z + Enter on Windows).

### 2. Configure your MCP client

Pick your client and paste one of the snippets below. Use the **inline JSON** variant if you used `--stdout`, or the **file path** variant if you used `--out`.

#### Claude Desktop

Config file:

| OS | Path |
|---|---|
| Windows | `%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json` |
| macOS | `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json` |
| Linux | `~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json` |

**Inline JSON (recommended):**

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yt-music": {
      "command": "uvx",
 …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- media.music (1, derived)
- dev.docs-lookup (0.791, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/yt-music-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T16:23:35.064Z)

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