yt-dlp

An MCP server implementation that integrates with yt-dlp, providing video and audio content download capabilities from YouTube and other platforms for LLMs.

- Video Download: Save videos to your specified folder with quality control
- Audio Download: Extract and save audio in various formats (mp3, m4a, ogg, opus)
- Video Information: Get metadata about videos without downloading
- Privacy-Focused: Direct download without tracking
- MCP Integration: Works with Claude Desktop and other MCP-compatible LLMs
- Flexible Output: Customizable output paths and file formats

Installyt-dlpbased on your operating system:

# macOS brew install yt-dlp # Linux pip install yt-dlp

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Open your Claude Desktop configuration file:

- macOS:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{ "mcpServers": { "yt-dlp-mcp": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@gtvar/yt-dlp-mcp" ] } } }

- Save the file and restart Claude Desktop

- Get video metadata without downloading (title, duration, uploader, available formats)
- Inputs:

- url(string, required): URL of the video

- Download video or extract audio to specified location with quality control
- Inputs:

- url(string, required): URL of the video
- quality_preference(string, optional): Video quality preference
- video_container_preference(string, optional): Preferred video format
- audio_container_preference(string, optional): Preferred audio format (mp3, m4a, ogg, opus)
- output_path(string, optional): Custom output path with filename template
- extract_audio_only(boolean, optional): Extract audio only. Defaults to false

"Get information about this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=..." "Download this YouTube video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=..." "Extract audio from this video in mp3 format: https://youtube.com/watch?v=..." "Download video with custom quality settings: https://youtube.com/watch?v=..." "Save this video to a specific folder: https://youtube.com/watch?v=..."

- YTDLP_PATH- Path to yt-dlp executable (default: 'yt-dlp')
- YTDL_OUTPUT_DIR- Default output directory (default: '/tmp')
- FFMPEG_PATH- Path to ffmpeg executable (optional)

- Node.js 20+
- yt-dlpin system PATH
- MCP-compatible LLM service (Claude Desktop, etc.)
- Optional:ffmpegfor additional format support

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