io.github.granitebps/youtube-mcp
YouTube MCP
Is the YouTube MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-10-30.
Independent, unofficial project for YouTube metadata, transcripts, comments, and search.
alive probed 2026-11-14 · unchanged since 2026-10-30
- Run it
- npx -y @granitebps/youtube-mcp@1.1.1 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
- Host
- npmjs.com
- Reports itself as
- youtube-mcp 1.1.1
- Capabilities
- tools
- Instructions
- none
- Of a 1M window
- 0.2 % of a 1M context window
- Count
- 2.2k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-16. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 2.3k. The o200k_base estimate is 1.3k. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
- Repository
- https://github.com/granitebps/youtube-mcp
- Registry
- active, updated 2026-10-20 · registry entry
Most expensive tools
The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.68×.
| Tool | ≈ Claude tokens | o200k estimate | Share of this server |
|---|---|---|---|
| search_youtube | 684 | 407 | 31 % |
| get_video_transcript | 578 | 344 | 26 % |
| get_video_comments | 408 | 243 | 18 % |
| get_video_info | 264 | 157 | 12 % |
| get_transcript_languages | 165 | 98 | 7 % |
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Badge for the README
The result of the latest probe, the tool count and the token cost. The feed has an entry for every probe that changed them.
A mail when this server changes
Stops answering, comes back, tool set or cost changes. One confirmation mail first, a stop link in every mail.
For the publisher
- The server answers initialize and tools/list. Nothing to fix.