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YouTube Uploader MCP

anwerj/youtube-uploader-mcp

AI‑powered YouTube uploader—no CLI, no YouTube Studio, and no secrets ever shared with LLMs or third‑party apps and all free of cost! It includes OAuth2 authentication, token management, and video upload functionality.

Install

Client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-uploader-mcp": {
      "command": "/absolute/path/to/youtube-uploader-mcp-<os>-<arch>",
      "args": [
        "-client_secret_file",
        "<value>"
      ]
    }
  }
}
Author
@anwerj
Category
Entertainment & Media, Developer Tools
Updated
Oct 6, 2026

Features

  • Direct Uploads: Upload videos to YouTube from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or any other MCP client.

  • AI-Assisted Metadata: Automatically generate titles, descriptions, and tags via your MCP client.

  • OAuth2 Authentication: Secure local login, multi-channel support, and auto-refreshing.

  • Metadata & Settings: Category tags, optional language settings, and explicit metadata control.

  • Privacy & Scheduling: Support for public, private, or unlisted statuses, and scheduled publish times.

  • Post-Upload Configs (update_video): Add videos to playlists, upload custom thumbnails (<2MB), attach subtitles, schedule publish time on already-uploaded videos, and update made-for-kids settings.

Tools (7)

  • authenticate

    Generates the OAuth2 URL for authentication.

  • accesstoken

    Exchanges the code for user credentials and channel info.

  • channels

    Retrieves authenticated channels.

  • refreshtoken

    Force-refreshes tokens.

  • upload_video

    Uploads the video file and configures main details (title, description, tags, category, optional language, status, kids' flags, scheduled publish).

  • update_video

    Decoupled tool that manages post-upload configurations: adds the video to a playlist, uploads a custom thumbnail (must be <2MB), attaches subtitle/caption…

  • list_videos

    Lists videos uploaded to a channel (public, unlisted, and private), with optional title/description search, privacy filter, and date ordering.

Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README

Supported clients

Clients mentioned in this server's README:

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