{"id":"0gis0-youtube-mcp-server","name":"youtube-mcp-server","af_score":49.2,"security_score":46.8,"reliability_score":30.0,"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.","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.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T15:35:59.588636+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":true,"auth_methods":["YouTube API key via environment variable (YOUTUBE_API_KEY)"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_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."],"error_quality":0.0}