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yutu (YouTube MCP + CLI)

Communityby Community (eat-pray-ai)freeverified Aug 21, 2026

Automate your whole YouTube channel — including real video uploads — via OAuth.

What it does

A Go-based CLI, MCP server, and agent toolkit for YouTube that automates the full workflow: uploading videos, editing metadata, managing playlists, comments, captions, and thumbnails. Still the only well-maintained MCP option that does real YouTube uploads via OAuth — Google ships no official YouTube MCP as of August 2026.

Connect

Claude Code

claude mcp add -e YUTU_CREDENTIAL=/absolute/path/to/client_secret.json -e YUTU_CACHE_TOKEN=/absolute/path/to/youtube.token.json yutu -- yutu mcp

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-yutu": {
      "command": "yutu",
      "args": [
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YUTU_CREDENTIAL": "YOUR_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-yutu": {
      "command": "yutu",
      "args": [
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YUTU_CREDENTIAL": "YOUR_KEY_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Auth: oauth · env YUTU_CREDENTIAL — Google Cloud Console: enable YouTube Data API v3, create a Desktop-app OAuth client, save client_secret.json, then run yutu auth --credential client_secret.json once

Field notes

618 stars, Apache-2.0, pushed 2026-08-20; v0.10.10 (2026-07-25) is still the stable release on Homebrew, winget, and npm (@eat-pray-ai/yutu), with v0.10.11-dev3 the newest prerelease. Install first — brew install yutu — then authenticate; the MCP server also runs over HTTP (yutu mcp --mode http --auth on :8216). Quota caveat unchanged: videos.insert costs 1,600 units → ~6 uploads/day on the default 10k quota, and unverified API projects can only upload private videos until Google audits them. The bundled multi-agent mode is under active development and only supports Gemini models. Lighter upload-only alternative: anwerj/youtube-uploader-mcp (50 stars).

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