{"id":"codewizzard01-youtube-mcp-server","name":"youtube-mcp-server","af_score":56.0,"security_score":49.8,"reliability_score":20.0,"what_it_does":"Provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets an MCP host query YouTube for video search, video details, thumbnails, transcripts, and various channel/playlist metadata (including comments/activities limited to public data).","best_when":"You want an MCP-compatible tool surface over common YouTube read-only queries (search, metadata, public transcripts/comments), and you can supply a YouTube API key.","avoid_when":"You require fine-grained OAuth scopes, strict privacy controls, or an official hosted SaaS with published SLAs (this appears to be a self-hosted server).","last_evaluated":"2026-04-04T19:50:57.343189+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":["API key via YOUTUBE_API_KEY environment variable"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Transcript extraction may fail for videos without available transcripts or due to YouTube/API limitations (not documented).","Rate limits/quotas are not described in README; agents may need to handle 429/quota errors based on MCP/underlying YouTube API behavior (not documented).","Some endpoints are explicitly limited to 'Public' comments/activities; requesting non-public data may result in empty results or errors (not detailed)."],"error_quality":0.0}