YouTube for AI Agents

Claude watches YouTube so you don't have to

Ask "what's the best video on…?" and Claude finds it, watches it, and reports back. Drop a long podcast in chat — get the highlights in seconds. Cut clips, build reels, pull transcripts — all without opening a YouTube tab.

Quick Start · Try it · Discord · Demo

Demo

Click the image to watch the 1-minute walkthrough.

Quick Start

1. Install the plugin — inside Claude Code, run:

/plugin marketplace add JCodesMore/jcodesmore-plugins
/plugin install youtube@jcodesmore-plugins

Then fully restart Claude Code (quit the app and reopen).

2. That's it. No API key, no signup. Just start asking.

Optional: run /youtube:setup to sign in with your own YouTube cookies for personalized search and recommendations.

Try it

Talk to Claude like a friend:

• "Watch this video and give me the recipe — I don't want to scroll the comments."
• "Find me five highly-rated videos on Roman history."
• "What are this channel's best uploads? Watch the top three and summarize."
• "Pull the actionable takeaways from this 90-minute interview."
• "Cut a 30-second clip starting at 2:15 from this video."
• "Combine these three cooking videos into a single highlight reel."

The agent searches, watches, and reports back — no scrubbing, no scrolling.

What's inside

Nine smart tools wrapped in two skills and one agent — search, watch, clip, and reel without leaving the chat.

Community

Discord — chat, help, show-and-tell · Issues — bugs & feature requests · Contribute · More plugins

By default, search runs anonymously — no login required. If you want personalized recommendations and search results, run /youtube:setup and follow the cookie-extraction wizard. Cookies stay on your machine in the plugin data directory; nothing is uploaded anywhere.

The MCP server is portable. Per-platform setup guides:

• Cursor
• Codex
• OpenCode
• Gemini CLI

Clone and build it yourself:

git clone https://github.com/JCodesMore/youtube-for-ai-agents.git
cd youtube-for-ai-agents
npm install
npm run build

Or wire the published npm package directly into any MCP-compatible client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@jcodesmore/youtube-for-ai-agents"]
    }
  }
}

Requirements: Node.js ≥ 18.

• Model Context Protocol SDK — tool exposure to Claude
• youtubei.js — YouTube InnerTube client (no API key needed)
• youtube-transcript-plus — transcript fetching
• ytdlp-nodejs — video and audio downloads
• Zod — schema validation

License

Apache License 2.0 — © 2026 JCodesMore

Uses youtubei.js, an unofficial YouTube client. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with YouTube or Google.

Part of jcodesmore-plugins.