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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 770+ other apps, behind a single URL.

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Tools
9
Works with
Any MCP client
Auth
OAuth 2.0
License
MIT, open source
Updated
October 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 770+ 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

    Download a caption track's text. Works only on videos you own.

    4 fields

  • List Captions

    List a video's caption tracks, with the IDs Download Caption needs.

    3 fields

  • Search

    Search YouTube for videos, channels or playlists.

    30 fields

  • List Playlist Items

    List the videos in a playlist, or fetch specific playlist items.

    6 fields

  • Get Video

    Retrieve a video by ID, including its statistics and duration.

    1 field

  • Get Channel

    Get a channel's details, including subscriber and view counts.

    3 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

Give your assistant YouTube

Connect YouTube once and every tool above is callable from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client, behind the same server URL as 770+ other apps. Free to start.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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