YouTube MCP server
Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client live public YouTube data. Add one URL, sign in, and ask in plain English: the assistant picks from 26 YouTube endpoints, quotes the price and fetches the data.
https://api.insightsocial.app/mcp
Ask about YouTube in plain English
“Get the transcript of this YouTube video and write show notes with timestamps.”
YouTube Video Transcript API · 30 credits“How many subscribers does @mkbhd have, and what are his 10 latest uploads?”
YouTube Channel Videos API · 10–20 credits“Pull the comments on this video and find the most-asked questions.”
YouTube Video Comments API · 10 credits“Which sponsors were mentioned in this video?”
YouTube Video Sponsors API · 100 credits
Connect it to your app
Pick the app you use for step-by-step setup.
YouTube endpoints the assistant can call
All 26, with their price in credits.
- Channel10 credits
- Channel About250 credits
- Channel Videos10–20 credits
- Video10 credits
- Video Sponsors100 credits
- Video Comments10 credits
- Video Comment Replies10 credits
- Search10–150 credits
- Channel Shorts10–20 credits
- Community Post10 credits
- Playlist10–110 credits
- Search Hashtag10–110 credits
- Shorts Trending50–150 credits
- Video Transcript30 credits
- Channel Playlists10 credits
- Channel Lives10–70 credits
- Channel Community Posts10 credits
- Videos Trending10–60 credits
- Playlist Items10–110 credits
- Search Advanced10–110 credits
- Search Suggestions10 credits
- Video Audio50 credits
- Video Files50 credits
- Video Subtitles10 credits
- Video Thumbnails10 credits
- Profile Full50 credits
YouTube MCP: frequently asked questions
Yes. The hosted InsightSocial MCP server at https://api.insightsocial.app/mcp gives an AI assistant 26 YouTube endpoints, read-only and public data only, alongside the other 8 platforms. Claude and ChatGPT connect by signing in; Cursor and other clients send an API key.
Channel, Channel About, Channel Videos, Video, Video Sponsors, Video Comments, Video Comment Replies, Search, and 18 more. Each has a published price, and the assistant can quote it before calling.
Searching, describing and pricing endpoints are free. Fetching data costs the endpoint's price in credits, and your first 10 calls priced at 100 credits or less are free. A call that errors or finds nothing costs 0. The free plan includes monthly credits, with no card needed.
The tool that fetches data is marked as one that spends, so MCP clients ask before running it. The assistant can also quote the exact price of a call first, for free.
Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, YouTube, Reddit, Threads, Pinterest: 237 endpoints for public profiles, posts, comments, followers, search, transcripts and ad libraries. Public data only; it never logs in as you on those platforms.
An app you connected by signing in gets its own key, listed under Connected apps on your API keys page: disconnect it there and it loses access straight away. A key you pasted into a config is revoked on the same page.
Other platforms
One MCP server covers all of them: 237 endpoints in total.