{"id":"0gis0-youtube-mcp-server","name":"youtube-mcp-server","homepage":"https://youtu.be/khz4nWR9l20","repo_url":"https://github.com/0GiS0/youtube-mcp-server","category":"ai-ml","subcategories":[],"tags":["mcp","model-context-protocol","youtube","typescript","stdio","sse","github-copilot","api-integration"],"what_it_does":"Provides an MCP server for querying YouTube data (e.g., search channels and fetch channel metadata/stats) using two transports: stdio for local use and a remote SSE-based transport exposed over HTTP.","use_cases":["Search for YouTube channels by name/handle","Fetch channel metadata and statistics for analysis or research","Use MCP tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot Chat) to call YouTube lookup functionality from an LLM-powered workflow"],"not_for":["High-volume/enterprise YouTube scraping at scale without rate-limit/backoff strategy","Use cases requiring first-class webhooks, job queues, or persistent storage","Production deployments that require documented SLAs, detailed error semantics, and comprehensive security controls beyond an API key"],"best_when":"You want a simple MCP-enabled TypeScript server that bridges an LLM (via MCP) to the YouTube Data API v3 for interactive lookups.","avoid_when":"You need strict compliance guarantees, advanced access control, or well-documented operational behaviors (error codes, retries, rate-limit handling) to run unattended workloads.","alternatives":["Direct use of the YouTube Data API v3 with your own backend","Other community MCP servers for YouTube/Google APIs (if available)","Build a small MCP server yourself using @modelcontextprotocol/sdk and a YouTube API client"],"af_score":49.2,"security_score":46.8,"reliability_score":30.0,"package_type":"mcp_server","discovery_source":["github"],"priority":"high","status":"evaluated","version_evaluated":null,"last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T15:35:59.588636+00:00","interface":{"has_rest_api":true,"has_graphql":false,"has_grpc":false,"has_mcp_server":true,"mcp_server_url":"http://localhost:3000 (for mcp-remote SSE example)","has_sdk":false,"sdk_languages":["TypeScript"],"openapi_spec_url":null,"webhooks":false},"auth":{"methods":["YouTube API key via environment variable (YOUTUBE_API_KEY)"],"oauth":false,"scopes":false,"notes":"Authentication appears to be limited to providing a YouTube Data API key; no additional MCP client auth is described for securing the remote SSE endpoint."},"pricing":{"model":null,"free_tier_exists":false,"free_tier_limits":null,"paid_tiers":[],"requires_credit_card":false,"estimated_workload_costs":null,"notes":"Costs primarily depend on YouTube Data API usage (API quota/billing). The repository does not describe any provider pricing."},"requirements":{"requires_signup":false,"requires_credit_card":false,"domain_verification":false,"data_residency":[],"compliance":[],"min_contract":null},"agent_readiness":{"af_score":49.2,"security_score":46.8,"reliability_score":30.0,"mcp_server_quality":70.0,"documentation_accuracy":65.0,"error_message_quality":0.0,"error_message_notes":null,"auth_complexity":85.0,"rate_limit_clarity":10.0,"tls_enforcement":60.0,"auth_strength":40.0,"scope_granularity":20.0,"dependency_hygiene":45.0,"secret_handling":70.0,"security_notes":"Uses an environment variable (.env) for the YouTube API key (positive signal), but no mention of securing the remote MCP SSE endpoint (e.g., authentication/authorization) is provided. Operational safety around quota/rate limiting is not documented.","uptime_documented":0.0,"version_stability":50.0,"breaking_changes_history":50.0,"error_recovery":20.0,"idempotency_support":"false","idempotency_notes":"No idempotency guidance is provided; operations are likely read-only lookups but this is not explicitly documented for retries/replay safety.","pagination_style":"none","retry_guidance_documented":false,"known_agent_gotchas":["Remote transport is described as SSE over HTTP on localhost; production exposure would require additional hardening not covered in the README.","YouTube API quotas/rate limits are not described; agents may need their own backoff strategy.","Only one example tool name (get_youtube_channel) is mentioned; full tool surface area and input validation behavior are not exhaustively documented in the provided README."]}}