Is the YouTube MCP server free?

Yes. Activepieces is open source and free to start, and the MCP server is included on every plan, from the free cloud tier to any self-hosted deployment.

How do I connect YouTube to Claude or Cursor?

Connect YouTube in Activepieces, enable the server under Settings → MCP Server, then paste your server URL into your client config. It authenticates over OAuth on first use.

What can my agent do in YouTube?

It can call 9 tools, including Download Caption, List Captions, Search, and chain them with steps in other apps inside the same run.

Is it safe to let an agent call YouTube?

Connections use OAuth2 with limited scopes and are stored under 256-bit encryption, with no API to read them back, so an agent gets scoped access rather than your keys.

YouTube MCP server

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube

YouTube is not a separate install. One Activepieces MCP server exposes it alongside 760+ other apps, behind a single URL.

Start building See the YouTube integration

Tools: 9
Works with: Any MCP client
Auth: OAuth 2.0
License: MIT, open source
Updated: August 2026

About the YouTube MCP server

Connect YouTube once in Activepieces and every action it ships becomes a tool your assistant can call, behind the same server URL as the rest of your apps. Your agent reaches YouTube and 760+ other apps over a single connection, on our cloud or a self-hosted install.

Tools

YouTube tools your AI can run

Once connected, your assistant can call any of these YouTube actions by asking in plain language.

Download Caption
Returns a caption track text by caption ID using the YouTube captions.download endpoint. Requires permission to edit the video, so it only works for captions on videos the authenticated user owns. Auto-generated (asr) caption tracks cannot be downloaded and will return a 403.
4 fields
List Captions
Returns caption tracks for a specific YouTube video using the captions.list endpoint.
3 fields
Search
Search YouTube videos, channels, and playlists using the YouTube Data API search.list endpoint.
30 fields
List Playlist Items
Returns videos in a YouTube playlist. You can filter by playlist ID or by specific item IDs.
5 fields
Get Video
Retrieve a video by ID, including its statistics and duration.
1 field
Get Channel
Retrieve a channel by ID or handle, including its subscriber and view counts.
2 fields
List Playlists
List the playlists on a channel.
3 fields
List Comments
List the top-level comment threads on a video.
4 fields
Custom API Call
Make a custom API call to a specific endpoint
10 fields

Triggers

YouTube events your agent can watch

These start a run the moment something happens in YouTube, so work gets picked up on its own.

New Video In Channel
Runs when a new video is added to a YouTube channel
1 field

YouTube MCP, answered.

No. That is the point of it. One Activepieces server exposes YouTube alongside every other piece you connect, so your client keeps a single connection.