# yutu (YouTube MCP + CLI)

> Automate your whole YouTube channel — including real video uploads — via OAuth.

- **Category:** Review & Distribution
- **Vendor:** Community (eat-pray-ai) (community)
- **Pricing:** free
- **Verified:** 2026-06-11

## What it does

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.

## Connect

- Claude Code: `claude mcp add youtube-yutu -- yutu mcp`
- Local: `yutu mcp`

**Auth:** oauth (env `YUTU_CREDENTIAL`) — Google Cloud Console: enable YouTube Data API v3, create an OAuth client, download client_secret.json, then run yutu auth once

## Capabilities

`video-upload` · `metadata-editing` · `playlists` · `comments` · `captions` · `thumbnails` · `channel-management`

## Field 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.

## Links

- Site: https://yutu.ifor.dev
- Repo: https://github.com/eat-pray-ai/yutu

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