{
  "slug": "youtube-yutu",
  "name": "yutu (YouTube MCP + CLI)",
  "vendor": "Community (eat-pray-ai)",
  "official": false,
  "category": "distribution",
  "featured": false,
  "tagline": "Automate your whole YouTube channel — including real video uploads — via OAuth.",
  "description": "A Go-based CLI, MCP server, and agent toolkit for YouTube that automates the full workflow: uploading videos, editing metadata, managing playlists, comments, captions, and thumbnails. The only well-maintained MCP option that does real YouTube uploads via OAuth — there is no official Google/YouTube MCP as of June 2026.",
  "capabilities": [
    "video-upload",
    "metadata-editing",
    "playlists",
    "comments",
    "captions",
    "thumbnails",
    "channel-management"
  ],
  "tools_sample": null,
  "install": {
    "claude_code": "claude mcp add yutu -- yutu mcp (after brew install yutu and one-time yutu auth)",
    "remote_url": null,
    "stdio_command": "yutu mcp"
  },
  "auth": {
    "type": "oauth",
    "env_var": "YUTU_CREDENTIAL",
    "key_url": "Google Cloud Console: enable YouTube Data API v3, create an OAuth client, download client_secret.json, then run yutu auth once"
  },
  "pricing": "free",
  "links": {
    "repo": "https://github.com/eat-pray-ai/yutu",
    "docs": null,
    "site": "https://yutu.ifor.dev"
  },
  "added": "2026-06-11",
  "verified": "2026-06-11",
  "notes": "496 stars, Apache-2.0, pushed Jun 2026 with regular releases. Quota caveat: videos.insert costs 1,600 units → ~6 uploads/day on the default 10k quota, and unverified API projects can only upload private videos until Google audits the project. Lighter upload-only alternative: anwerj/youtube-uploader-mcp."
}