youtube-kit
PYPI · YOUTUBE-KIT
YouTube CLI and MCP server: search and read public YouTube, and manage your own channels.
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Last scanned (9 hours ago)
Scores higher than 67% of PyPI servers
Category Entertainment and Games
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security50
- Malware scan not yet available for this package.Unverified
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- Runs uv_build at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it. View diagnostics → Pass
- 2 of 44 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency100
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to eukosh/youtube-kit). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability66
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 7179 tokens (~140/item across 51 items; 51 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management20
- Stability observed for 6 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
- Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- All 8 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 52 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 24 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 22 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 21 Oct 26 0
- Package version: 0.7.0 → 0.7.1 functional
- 20 Oct 26 0
- Schema quality: 5917 → 7165 ▼ functional
- Package version: 0.6.0 → 0.7.0 functional
- 19 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 0 to 3. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 0 days of observed history at the previous scan, 1 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 18 Oct 26 65
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 24 Oct 2026 · Analysed pypi/youtube-kit@0.7.1
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | pypi |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | eukosh/youtube-kit |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/eukosh/youtube-kit/.github/workflows/release.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3355375929 |
| Predicate type | PyPI publish attestation https://docs.pypi.org/attestations/publish/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha256:fccef84f22cbfaa02bc7d2569cad639800d1c228c8982fe7d9733ee6600a32b7 |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Install scripts 1 script
| Hook | Tier | Command |
|---|---|---|
| build_backend | allowlisted | uv_build |
Background: Why install scripts are a supply-chain risk →
Dependencies 44 packages
| Packages resolved | 44 |
|---|---|
| Stale | 2 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
update_section Update Section ~140
Change a section on your channel's home page. Only the fields you pass change. Quota: 51 units.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| channels | – | – | Channels to show instead of the current ones (UC… IDs, @handles, or URLs). |
| my_channel | – | – | Which of your logged-in channels to work on: UC… ID, @handle or exact title. Omit for the default channel. |
| playlists | – | – | Playlists to show instead of the current ones (IDs or URLs). |
| position | – | – | New 0-based position on the home page. |
| section | string | yes | Section ID, as listed for your channel. |
| title | – | – | New title. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| channel_ids | array | – | – |
| id | string | yes | – |
| playlist_ids | array | – | – |
| position | – | – | – |
| title | – | – | – |
| type | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
update_video Update Video ~315
Change a video's metadata. Only the fields you pass change; the rest keep their values. Quota: 51 units.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ai_content | – | – | Whether AI made realistic content: a real person saying or doing something they didn't, altered footage of a real event or place, a realistic scene that didn't happen, or music that's the video's foc… |
| audio_language | – | – | Language spoken in the video, e.g. en-US. |
| category_id | – | – | New category ID (see the video categories listing). |
| description | – | – | New description. |
| language | – | – | Language of the title and description, e.g. en-US. |
| made_for_kids | – | – | Whether the video is made for kids (COPPA). |
| my_channel | – | – | Which of your logged-in channels to work on: UC… ID, @handle or exact title. Omit for the default channel. |
| paid_promotion | – | – | Whether the video includes paid promotion: a sponsorship, product placement, or endorsement. |
| privacy | – | – | New privacy status. Making a scheduled video public or unlisted cancels the schedule. |
| publish_at | – | – | Schedule publication at this date or datetime. The video must end up private. |
| tags | – | – | New tags, replacing the current ones. An empty list removes all tags. YouTube may store them in a different order. |
| title | – | – | New title. |
| video | string | yes | Video ID or URL. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ai_content | – | – | Declared to contain realistic AI-made content, as set by this upload or update. YouTube doesn't report it when reading a video. |
| audio_language | – | – | Language spoken in the video, e.g. en-US. |
| category_id | – | – | – |
| channel_id | – | – | – |
| channel_title | – | – | – |
| description | – | – | – |
| duration | – | – | – |
| duration_seconds | – | – | – |
| id | string | yes | – |
| language | – | – | Language of the title and description, e.g. en-US. |
| paid_promotion | – | – | Declared to include paid promotion. |
| privacy | – | – | – |
| publish_at | – | – | – |
| published_at | – | – | – |
| rejection_reason | – | – | Why YouTube rejected the video, e.g. copyright, duplicate, length, termsOfService. YouTube reports no reason for a video kept private because its API project isn't verified. |
| stats | – | – | – |
| studio_url | – | – | Edit page in YouTube Studio; only for videos on channels you're logged in to. |
| tags | – | – | In the order YouTube stores them, which may differ from yours. |
| title | – | – | – |
| upload_failure_reason | – | – | Why a failed upload failed, e.g. codec, conversion, emptyFile, invalidFile, tooSmall. |
| upload_status | – | – | uploaded, processed, failed, rejected, or deleted. |
| url | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
upload_caption Upload Caption ~152
Add a caption track to one of your videos from a caption file, such as SRT or VTT. Quota: 400 units.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| draft | boolean | – | Upload it hidden from viewers. |
| file | string | yes | Path to the caption file, at most 100 MB. |
| language | string | yes | Language of the captions, e.g. en or en-US. |
| my_channel | – | – | Which of your logged-in channels to work on: UC… ID, @handle or exact title. Omit for the default channel. |
| name | string | – | Track name viewers see next to the language. Two tracks in one language need different names. |
| video | string | yes | Video ID or URL. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| draft | boolean | – | Not shown to viewers yet. |
| id | string | yes | – |
| kind | string | yes | asr: made by YouTube's speech recognition. forced: shown when no track is chosen. |
| language | string | yes | – |
| name | – | – | – |
| status | – | – | serving, syncing, or failed. |
| updated_at | – | – | – |
| video_id | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
upload_video Upload Video ~391
Upload a video file from disk (resumable, reports progress). Category and languages left out are copied from your most recent public upload (among your last 150), so the video matches the rest of your channel; with none, the category is 22 (People & Blogs). YouTube keeps processing the video after this returns, and its duration and statistics appear only once that ends. Checking whether processing has finished tells you when, or why it failed. Quota: 1 of the project's 100 daily upload calls, plus up to 7 units.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ai_content | boolean | – | Whether AI made realistic content: a real person saying or doing something they didn't, altered footage of a real event or place, a realistic scene that didn't happen, or music that's the video's foc… |
| audio_language | – | – | Language spoken in the video, e.g. en-US. |
| category_id | – | – | Category ID (see the video categories listing). |
| description | string | – | Video description. |
| file | string | yes | Path to the local video file. |
| language | – | – | Language of the title and description, e.g. en-US. |
| made_for_kids | boolean | – | Whether the video is made for kids (COPPA). |
| my_channel | – | – | Which of your logged-in channels to work on: UC… ID, @handle or exact title. Omit for the default channel. |
| paid_promotion | boolean | – | Whether the video includes paid promotion: a sponsorship, product placement, or endorsement. |
| privacy | string | – | Privacy status. Must be private when publish_at is set. |
| publish_at | – | – | Schedule publication at this date or datetime; YouTube makes the video public then. |
| tags | – | – | Keyword tags. YouTube may store them in a different order. |
| title | string | yes | Video title. |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ai_content | – | – | Declared to contain realistic AI-made content, as set by this upload or update. YouTube doesn't report it when reading a video. |
| audio_language | – | – | Language spoken in the video, e.g. en-US. |
| category_id | – | – | – |
| channel_id | – | – | – |
| channel_title | – | – | – |
| description | – | – | – |
| duration | – | – | – |
| duration_seconds | – | – | – |
| id | string | yes | – |
| language | – | – | Language of the title and description, e.g. en-US. |
| paid_promotion | – | – | Declared to include paid promotion. |
| privacy | – | – | – |
| publish_at | – | – | – |
| published_at | – | – | – |
| rejection_reason | – | – | Why YouTube rejected the video, e.g. copyright, duplicate, length, termsOfService. YouTube reports no reason for a video kept private because its API project isn't verified. |
| stats | – | – | – |
| studio_url | – | – | Edit page in YouTube Studio; only for videos on channels you're logged in to. |
| tags | – | – | In the order YouTube stores them, which may differ from yours. |
| title | – | – | – |
| upload_failure_reason | – | – | Why a failed upload failed, e.g. codec, conversion, emptyFile, invalidFile, tooSmall. |
| upload_status | – | – | uploaded, processed, failed, rejected, or deleted. |
| url | string | yes | – |
No examples provided.
How do I install the youtube-kit MCP server?
youtube-kit runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx youtube-kit. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
pypi · youtube-kit
claude mcp add eukosh-youtube-kit -- uvx youtube-kit
What is the youtube-kit MCP server?
youtube-kit is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.eukosh/youtube-kit. YouTube CLI and MCP server: search and read public YouTube, and manage your own channels. This page covers its PyPI package (youtube-kit).
Is the youtube-kit MCP server safe to use?
youtube-kit scores 68 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 24 October 2026. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the youtube-kit MCP server expose?
youtube-kit exposes 51 tools: get_analytics, setup_guide, get_channel, list_my_channels, list_activities, and 46 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 6,873 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the youtube-kit MCP server still maintained?
youtube-kit is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 24 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the youtube-kit MCP server under?
youtube-kit declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.