(Remote) YouTube MCP Server

A remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides YouTube video transcript extraction tools with OAuth authentication. It includes OAuth 2.0 authentication via Auth0, compatible with MCP clients for including ChatGPT and Claude.

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Quick Start

Clone the repository

git clone [<repository-url>](https://github.com/ShawhinT/yt-mcp-remote.git)
cd yt-mcp-remote

Install dependencies (requires Python >=3.13)

uv sync

Configure environment variables in .env

AUTH0_DOMAIN=your-auth0-domain
AUTH0_AUDIENCE=your-api-identifier # same as RESOURCE_SERVER_URL in this example
RESOURCE_SERVER_URL=<your-server-public-url>/mcp

Run the server

uv run python main.py

Server runs on http://0.0.0.0:8000/mcp

MCP Tools

fetch_video_transcript(url) - Extract and format YouTube video transcripts
fetch_instructions(prompt_name) - Get writing templates (write_blog_post, write_social_post, write_video_chapters)

Tech Stack

FastMCP - MCP server framework
Railway - Hosting remote server
Auth0 - OAuth authentication
youtube-transcript-api - Transcript extraction
uv - Python dependency management

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