👋 Introduction

mcp-youtube is a Model Context Protocol server that wraps the full read/write surface of the YouTube Data API v3 reachable under the youtube.force-ssl scope — 52 tools spanning playlists, videos, channels, community (comments, subscriptions), captions, thumbnails, watermarks, and reference data. Every tool reports its quota cost up front, and every destructive or outward-irreversible tool refuses to run without an explicit confirm: true.

What's here

• 🔑 Setup — OAuth authorisation, credential storage, and environment variable overrides
• 🔍 Searching — search, list-playlists, get-playlist
• ➕ Creating & Adding — create-playlist, update-playlist, add-to-playlist, update-playlist-item
• 🧹 Cleaning Playlists — clean-playlist's tombstone, duplicate, and channel-prune scan
• 🗑️ Deleting & Pruning — remove-from-playlist, delete-playlist, and the confirm requirement
• 🎬 Videos — list, update, rate, delete, upload, and report videos
• 📺 Channels & Sections — brand your channel and manage homepage shelves
• 💬 Community — subscriptions, comments, and comment threads
• 📝 Captions & Media — caption tracks, thumbnails, watermarks, and playlist cover images
• 📚 Reference Data — activities and the read-only lookup lists (categories, languages, regions, abuse reasons, memberships)