I have a long YouTube watch-later playlist and wanted Claude to help me triage it by summarizing each video. It couldn t. I later discovered YouTube is not accessible to Claude, ChatGPT and majority of AIs. So I built this MCP server to fix that.This is a local MCP server that gives any MCP-compatible client (Claude, ChatGPT, OpenClaw and others) 8 tools for working with YouTube content:- fetch full transcript, with or without timestamps - download transcript as a .md file - get video metadata (title, channel, views, duration, likes, description) - search within captions for a keyword or phrase - download video or audioNo YouTube API key. No account. No signup. Everything runs locally on your machine against publicly available data.Setup is one line: npx @umbertotancorre/youtube-mcpyt-dlp and ffmpeg are bundled automatically during install, so there s nothing to configure manually.It s free and MIT licensed. Feedbacks are welcome.