MCP YouTube Downloader

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Programmatically download YouTube videos or playlists with specific quality, resolution and format choices and receive streaming progress updates.

• 2

  Extract audio (mp3/aac/opus) or obtain high-quality thumbnails and subtitle files for later processing or transcription.

• 3

  Structured video metadata (JSON) or an easy MCP endpoint to integrate media downloads into larger automation or LLM workflows.

Description

MCP‑YouTube is a drop-in Model Context Protocol server that wraps yt-dlp, providing a simple JSON API to download videos, playlists, audio, subtitles and thumbnails. It is fully async, streams rich progress logs (speed, ETA, errors) back to the caller, and works with any MCP client (CLI, VS Code Cursor, Claude Desktop, HTTP fetchers, ChatGPT plug-ins, etc.). Outputs are organized into type-specific downloads/ folders with configurable naming templates and supports quality/format selection and subtitle embedding.

Capabilities(6 total)