YouTube MCP Server

Uses yt-dlp to download subtitles from YouTube and connects it to claude.ai via Model Context Protocol. Try it by asking Claude, "Summarize the YouTube video <>". Requires yt-dlp to be installed locally e.g. via Homebrew.

How do I get this working?

1. Install yt-dlp (Homebrew and WinGet both work great here)
2. Clone this repo and run npm install
3. macOS: code ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json, Windows: code $env:AppData\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
4. Add this block to the mcpServers section or make it if it's not there:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-youtube": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/the/place/you/put/mcp-youtube/lib/index.mjs"]
    }
  }
}