Youtube

live Data

YouTube MCP — wraps the YouTube Data API v3 (BYO API key)

5 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

yt_video_details

Get detailed information about one or more YouTube videos including title, description, channel, duration, view/like/comment counts, and tags.

No parameters required.

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yt_channel_details

Get YouTube channel information and statistics including subscriber count, video count, view count, description, and custom URL.

No parameters required.

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yt_channel_videos

List recent videos from a YouTube channel, ordered by date. Returns video ID, title, description, and publish date.

No parameters required.

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yt_video_comments

Get top-level comment threads on a YouTube video. Returns author, text, like count, and publish date.

No parameters required.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/youtube/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/youtube/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"yt_search","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("yt_search", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("youtube mcp — wraps the youtube data api v3 (byo api key)");