📌Overview

Purpose: The framework aims to facilitate the downloading of YouTube subtitles and their integration with Claude AI for user-friendly video summarization.

Overview: The YouTube MCP Server utilizes the yt-dlp tool to download subtitles from YouTube videos and connects to Claude AI through the Model Context Protocol, allowing users to effortlessly request summaries by simply providing a video URL.

Key Features:

• Subtitle Downloading: Leverages yt-dlp to extract and download subtitles from YouTube, ensuring availability for processing and summarization.

• AI Integration: Connects to Claude AI via the Model Context Protocol, enabling users to interactively request summaries of the downloaded video content using straightforward commands.

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YouTube MCP Server

The YouTube MCP Server uses yt-dlp to download subtitles from YouTube and connects to Claude.ai via the Model Context Protocol. You can ask Claude to summarize a YouTube video by using the command:

Summarize the YouTube video <<URL>>

Requirements

• yt-dlp must be installed locally. You can install it using Homebrew or WinGet.

Installation Steps

1. Install yt-dlp (Homebrew or WinGet).
2. Install the YouTube MCP Server via the mcp-installer using the name @anaisbetts/mcp-youtube.