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yutu (YouTube MCP + CLI)

Communityby Community (eat-pray-ai)freeverified Jun 11, 2026

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

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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

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-yutu": {
      "command": "yutu",
      "args": [
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YUTU_CREDENTIAL": "YOUR_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-yutu": {
      "command": "yutu",
      "args": [
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YUTU_CREDENTIAL": "YOUR_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

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.

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