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Supercharge your Claude with the best YouTube data

Connect YouTube to Claude and get real, data-backed answers instantly.

Same prompt. Different intelligence.

135M+ channels. 12B+ videos. Real-time data.

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Claude YouTube MCP Setup

Set Up the Claude YouTube MCP in 60 Seconds

Pick your AI tool and follow the steps.

  1. 1

    Open Claude.ai → Customize (side panel) → Connectors → Add custom connector

  2. 2

    Select "MCP Server" and paste the server URL

  3. 3

    Click Connect, then sign in or create your vidIQ account to authorize access

  4. 4

    You're all set. vidIQ tools are now available in your conversations.

MCP Server URL

https://mcp.vidiq.com/mcp

MCP Prompt Library for Claude

Copy. Paste. Insight.

Ready-to-use prompts. Paste directly into your AI tool.

vidIQ MCP Credits & Tools

50 tools and counting

44 core tools below, plus 6 free utility tools

  • keyword_research

    Find keywords your competitors are sleeping on

  • outliers

    Spot videos that blew up for a reason

  • generate_clips

    Turn a long video into vertical clips

  • generate_thumbnail

    Generate a thumbnail from a prompt

  • generate_titles

    Generate high-CTR title ideas

  • subscriber_insights

    Find your best time to post and who else your fans watch

  • video_transcript

    Read any video without watching it

  • trending_videos

    See what formats are blowing up right now

Plus 6 free utility tools: credits balance, your connected channels, async job tracking, voice library, and feedback. Tool calls draw from your vidIQ plan’s shared credit pool.

Connect YouTube to Claude

The Claude YouTube Connector

vidIQ's MCP is a YouTube connector for Claude: a one-click integration that gives Claude live access to real YouTube data. Once connected, Claude stops guessing and starts pulling actual numbers, from channel analytics and competitor research to keyword volume, trending outliers, comments, and video transcripts.

Ask things like:

  • Why did my last video underperform against my channel average?
  • Which keywords in my niche have high volume and low competition?
  • What videos are breaking out in my topic this week?

Setup takes about a minute. Add the vidIQ connector in Claude's settings, authorize, and ask your first question. No API keys, no config files, and it works in Claude on web, desktop, and mobile.

MCP for Claude: Common Questions

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI tools connect to external data sources. vidIQ's MCP server gives Claude, Cursor, Codex, and others direct access to your YouTube analytics so you can ask questions in plain English and get real, data-backed answers. It's the fastest way to get real YouTube channel data and analytics directly inside Claude.

No. vidIQ's MCP server uses our own data infrastructure, not the YouTube Data API. Your YouTube API quota is completely unaffected.

No. vidIQ's MCP server is read-only for your YouTube channel. AI tools can query and surface insights, but they cannot post videos, change settings, or modify anything on YouTube. The only thing they can update is your vidIQ competitor watchlist.

Any tool that supports the MCP protocol: Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenClaw, and others. If your tool supports MCP, vidIQ works with it.

Yes. API keys are specific to MCP access, are revocable at any time, and are never shared with third-party AI providers. vidIQ only sends data in response to your explicit queries.

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Add vidIQ as a connector and get real, data-backed YouTube insights in seconds.