# Youtube (verified)

YouTube is a video-sharing platform with user-generated content, live streaming, and monetization opportunities, widely used for marketing, education, and entertainment

## Quick Start

```bash
# Connect this server (installs CLI if needed)
npx -y @smithery/cli@latest mcp add youtube

# Browse available tools
npx -y @smithery/cli@latest tool list youtube

# Get full schema for a tool
npx -y @smithery/cli@latest tool get youtube YOUTUBE_GET_CHANNEL_ACTIVITIES

# Call a tool
npx -y @smithery/cli@latest tool call youtube YOUTUBE_GET_CHANNEL_ACTIVITIES '{}'
```

## Direct MCP Connection

Endpoint: `https://youtube.run.tools`

## Tools (16)

- `YOUTUBE_GET_CHANNEL_ACTIVITIES` — Gets recent activities from a YouTube channel including video uploads, playlist additions, likes, and other channel eve…
- `YOUTUBE_GET_CHANNEL_ID_BY_HANDLE` — Retrieves the YouTube Channel ID for a specific YouTube channel handle.
- `YOUTUBE_GET_CHANNEL_STATISTICS` — Gets detailed statistics for YouTube channels including subscriber counts, view counts, and video counts.
- `YOUTUBE_GET_VIDEO_DETAILS_BATCH` — Retrieves multiple YouTube video resource parts in a single batch call. Use when you need cohort-level metrics for many…
- `YOUTUBE_LIST_CAPTION_TRACK` — Retrieves a list of caption tracks for a YouTube video, returning an empty list if no captions exist or failing if the …
- `YOUTUBE_LIST_CHANNEL_VIDEOS` — Lists videos from a specified YouTube channel, ensuring results are of `type: 'video'`.
- `YOUTUBE_LIST_PLAYLIST_ITEMS` — Tool to list videos in a playlist, with pagination support. Use when walking through a channel's uploads playlist to en…
- `YOUTUBE_LIST_USER_PLAYLISTS` — Retrieves playlists owned by the authenticated user, implicitly using mine=True.
- `YOUTUBE_LIST_USER_SUBSCRIPTIONS` — Retrieves the authenticated user's YouTube channel subscriptions, allowing specification of response parts and paginati…
- `YOUTUBE_LOAD_CAPTIONS` — Downloads a specific YouTube caption track, which must be owned by the authenticated user, and returns its content as t…
- `YOUTUBE_SEARCH_YOU_TUBE` — Searches YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists using a query term, returning the raw API response.
- `YOUTUBE_SUBSCRIBE_CHANNEL` — Subscribes the authenticated user to a specified YouTube channel, identified by its unique `channelId` which must be va…
- `YOUTUBE_UPDATE_THUMBNAIL` — Sets the custom thumbnail for a YouTube video using an image from thumbnailUrl; the authenticated user must have permis…
- `YOUTUBE_UPDATE_VIDEO` — Updates metadata for a YouTube video identified by videoId, which must exist; an empty list for tags removes all existi…
- `YOUTUBE_UPLOAD_VIDEO` — Uploads a video from a local file path to a YouTube channel; the video file must be in a YouTube-supported format.
- `YOUTUBE_VIDEO_DETAILS` — Retrieves specified information parts (e.g., snippet, contentDetails, statistics) for a YouTube video, identified by it…

```bash
# Get full input/output schema for a tool
npx -y @smithery/cli@latest tool get youtube <tool-name>
```