{"id":"hightemp-go-mcp-server-youtube-search","name":"go_mcp_server_youtube_search","homepage":null,"repo_url":"https://github.com/hightemp/go_mcp_server_youtube_search","category":"ai-ml","subcategories":[],"tags":["mcp-server","youtube","youtube-search","transcripts","go"],"what_it_does":"Provides an MCP server (Model Context Protocol) with tools to search YouTube videos, fetch video information by ID, and retrieve English or Russian subtitles. Can run over SSE (default) or stdio on the specified host/port.","use_cases":["Agent-assisted YouTube search by text query","Retrieving metadata for a specific YouTube video ID","Transcript/subtitle retrieval in English or Russian for downstream summarization or QA"],"not_for":["Use as a public, unauthenticated internet service without additional deployment safeguards","High-precision or policy-compliant content filtering/auditing (not described)","Production workloads requiring documented rate limits, SLAs, or guaranteed pagination semantics"],"best_when":"You have an MCP-capable AI assistant and want lightweight YouTube search/transcript tooling during experimentation or internal tooling.","avoid_when":"You need strong security controls, documented limits, or comprehensive error/retry semantics for automated high-volume usage.","alternatives":["Use YouTube Data API directly (via official Google APIs)","Use other community MCP YouTube search servers (if available)","Build a small adapter around a YouTube scraping/transcript provider with a documented REST API"],"af_score":47.0,"security_score":20.5,"reliability_score":20.0,"package_type":"mcp_server","discovery_source":["github"],"priority":"low","status":"evaluated","version_evaluated":null,"last_evaluated":"2026-04-04T19:41:39.885569+00:00","interface":{"has_rest_api":false,"has_graphql":false,"has_grpc":false,"has_mcp_server":true,"mcp_server_url":"http://localhost:8889/sse","has_sdk":false,"sdk_languages":[],"openapi_spec_url":null,"webhooks":false},"auth":{"methods":[],"oauth":false,"scopes":false,"notes":"No authentication mechanism is mentioned in the provided README. The server URL suggests local/SSE access by default."},"pricing":{"model":null,"free_tier_exists":false,"free_tier_limits":null,"paid_tiers":[],"requires_credit_card":false,"estimated_workload_costs":null,"notes":"No pricing information provided."},"requirements":{"requires_signup":false,"requires_credit_card":false,"domain_verification":false,"data_residency":[],"compliance":[],"min_contract":null},"agent_readiness":{"af_score":47.0,"security_score":20.5,"reliability_score":20.0,"mcp_server_quality":70.0,"documentation_accuracy":40.0,"error_message_quality":0.0,"error_message_notes":null,"auth_complexity":95.0,"rate_limit_clarity":5.0,"tls_enforcement":20.0,"auth_strength":10.0,"scope_granularity":0.0,"dependency_hygiene":40.0,"secret_handling":40.0,"security_notes":"README shows an HTTP SSE endpoint (not explicitly HTTPS/TLS) and does not mention auth. The major security risk is likely lack of authentication/access controls and unclear transport security when exposed beyond localhost. Dependency hygiene, secret handling, and detailed error handling cannot be verified from provided content.","uptime_documented":0.0,"version_stability":30.0,"breaking_changes_history":30.0,"error_recovery":20.0,"idempotency_support":"false","idempotency_notes":null,"pagination_style":"none","retry_guidance_documented":false,"known_agent_gotchas":["No documented authentication or access control—avoid exposing SSE endpoint to untrusted networks","No documented pagination/limits—agents may need to constrain query sizes or number of results","No documented retry/idempotency behavior—agents should be cautious with repeated calls on failures"]}}