YouTube Data API
Read YouTube data — videos, channels, playlists, search, comments — and (with OAuth) manage your own uploads. 9 tools, API key + optional OAuth Bearer.
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Setup in 2 minutes
- 1Start a free trial on cloud.anythingmcp.com.
- 2Click YouTube Data API in the connector store. Paste credentials when prompted.
- 3Mint an MCP API key and point your AI client at the generated MCP URL.
Guides for YouTube
Step-by-step setup for the most popular AI clients.
Setting up YouTube Data API
From the connector definition itself: where to find the credentials, what they need to be allowed to do, and which API this adapter talks to.
This connector uses the YouTube Data API v3 (developers.google.com/youtube/v3).
Setup:
- Create / pick a Google Cloud project at https://console.cloud.google.com.
- APIs & Services → Library → enable YouTube Data API v3.
- Credentials → Create credentials → API key. (For write operations, also do OAuth2 client + get a Bearer token with
youtube.upload/youtubescopes — out of scope here.) - Set
YOUTUBE_API_KEYto the API key.
Authentication: query-string ?key=.... Read operations don't need OAuth.
Quota model: every API call costs units against your daily quota (default 10,000/day for new projects — request more via Google's quota form). search.list costs 100 units per call (most expensive), videos.list ~1 unit. Watch quota in the Cloud Console.
part parameter: most resources let you choose which 'parts' of the object to return — e.g. ?part=snippet,statistics,contentDetails. Slimmer = cheaper.
Pagination: nextPageToken cursor.
Out of scope here: video uploads (multipart + OAuth + resumable upload), captions, comment moderation, live broadcasts, monetization, channel branding.
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