{
  "slug": "youtube-data",
  "name": "YouTube MCP Server (data)",
  "vendor": "Community (kirbah)",
  "official": false,
  "category": "distribution",
  "featured": false,
  "tagline": "Token-optimized YouTube Data API server for video, channel, and trend analytics.",
  "description": "A high-efficiency MCP server returning structured, token-minimized data from the YouTube Data API v3 (claims up to 87% token reduction vs raw API). Covers video details, search, transcripts (at zero quota cost), channel statistics, trending, and outlier-channel discovery — the research side of distribution: study what works before you publish.",
  "capabilities": [
    "video-metadata",
    "search",
    "transcripts",
    "channel-analytics",
    "trending",
    "comments"
  ],
  "tools_sample": [
    "getVideoDetails",
    "searchVideos",
    "getTranscripts",
    "getChannelStatistics",
    "getTrendingVideos",
    "getVideoComments",
    "findConsistentOutlierChannels"
  ],
  "install": {
    "claude_code": "claude mcp add youtube -e YOUTUBE_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY -- npx -y @kirbah/mcp-youtube",
    "remote_url": null,
    "stdio_command": "npx -y @kirbah/mcp-youtube"
  },
  "auth": {
    "type": "api_key",
    "env_var": "YOUTUBE_API_KEY",
    "key_url": "Google Cloud Console → enable YouTube Data API v3 → Credentials → API key"
  },
  "pricing": "free",
  "links": {
    "repo": "https://github.com/kirbah/mcp-youtube",
    "docs": null,
    "site": null
  },
  "added": "2026-06-11",
  "verified": "2026-06-11",
  "notes": "MIT, pushed Jun 2026 — the most actively maintained YouTube data MCP. Read-only (no upload — pair with yutu). Higher-starred alternative: ZubeidHendricks/youtube-mcp-server (530 stars, multi-key quota fallback, ~2.5 months stale)."
}