// data source

YouTube data for AI agents

Video detail, channel feeds, comments, subtitles, search and trending, plus public channel contact lookup. One key, and no daily quota units to budget.

on by default on new serversover mcp or http

Copy the setup prompt.
Your agent does the rest.

works with any agent+ 8 more

Connect the superagnt MCP server at https://mcp.superagnt.com/mcp/youtube to this agent for me (I'll sign in through my browser). The setup guide for each kind of agent is at https://www.superagnt.com/install?facet=youtube

or follow the detailed setup instructions

» a new workspace starts with the YouTube tools already on. On an existing workspace, your agent switches them on during setup.

01// what is inside

Everything your agent can pull

Video detail

Title, description, view and like counts, publish date, duration, channel and thumbnails for a video id.

Subtitles

Caption tracks for a video, so an agent can read what was actually said instead of inferring from the title.

Comments

Comment threads with continuation paging, for reading audience reaction at volume.

Channel feeds

Channel details, uploads, shorts and in-channel search, with continuation tokens for deep history.

Search and trending

Keyword search with language, country and ordering, plus trending by country and section.

Audio

Audio track detail and every video using a given track.

Channel contact

Public business email for a channel by URL or channel id, for outreach workflows.

tool names24as your agent sees them

data_youtube_video_screenshotdata_youtube_channel_search_continuationdata_youtube_channel_searchdata_youtube_channel_shortsdata_youtube_channel_videos_continuationdata_youtube_channel_detailsdata_youtube_youtube_channel_iddata_youtube_channel_videosdata_youtube_post_channel_videosdata_youtube_audio_videos_continuationdata_youtube_audio_videosdata_youtube_audio_detailsdata_youtube_video_recommendation_continuationdata_youtube_video_recommendationdata_youtube_video_commentsdata_youtube_video_subtitlesdata_youtube_video_detailsdata_youtube_video_datadata_youtube_youtube_search_continuationdata_youtube_youtube_searchdata_youtube_trending_videosdata_youtube_video_comments_continuationdata_youtube_get_channel_email_by_urldata_youtube_get_channel_email_by_id

02// what it gets used for

Three jobs it can start on today

A research agent that actually watches

The agent searches a topic, pulls subtitles for the top results, and summarises what was claimed with timestamps and a link back to each source video.

Creator outreach list

From a keyword search the agent collects channels above a subscriber floor, resolves each public business email, and writes a qualified list into your CRM.

Launch reaction digest

After a product video goes live, a schedule reads new comments every hour, clusters them by theme, and posts the top questions and complaints to Slack.

03// one call

What comes back

Your agent reads this response directly, with no parsing layer of your own in between. The same JSON comes back over plain HTTP, so a cron job or a script sees exactly what the agent sees.

https://mcp.superagnt.com/mcptool call

→ calldata_youtube_video_details

{
  "video_id": "kR3xB2QpV1s"
}

← resultjson

{
  "video_id": "kR3xB2QpV1s",
  "title": "Building an inbox agent in 20 minutes",
  "channel_id": "UC0000000000000000000A",
  "channel_title": "North Loop Labs",
  "published_at": "2026-07-14T15:02:11Z",
  "length_seconds": 1247,
  "view_count": 84102,
  "like_count": 3110,
  "...": "description, keywords, thumbnails, is_live"
}

» trimmed for length. the shape is the shape your agent receives.

04// cost

What it costs to run

per call

$0.003

deducted from your credit balance

Every call in YouTube costs the same, and only a successful call is billed.

One balance covers this source and every other one, so there is no per-source subscription and no upstream account of your own to keep alive.

how credits work →

05// questions

Before you wire it up

01Do I need a YouTube Data API key or quota?

No. There are no daily quota units to plan around and no cloud project to manage. You pay per call in credits.

02How does my agent get these tools?

Connect your MCP client to https://mcp.superagnt.com/mcp. A server created now serves these tools by default. On an older server, have the agent call agnt_tools_enable with the family id data:youtube and they appear in its next tools/list.

03Can it read what was said in a video?

Yes. data_youtube_video_subtitles returns the caption track, which is what makes summarising and quoting a video reliable.

04How is usage billed?

Calls consume platform credits based on provider and endpoint. See credit costs in the dashboard and on each endpoint page.

05What about rate limits?

Rate limits depend on your plan. The API returns standard HTTP status codes; retry with backoff on 429 responses.

get your key

Point your client at https://mcp.superagnt.com/mcp and your agent has this, plus everything else on one balance.

Start free→

06// keep going

The rest of what your agent can reach

data sourceLinkedInCompany and profile enrichment, people and job search, posts and engagement, resolved in real time from a domain, a URL or a keyword.open →data sourceRedditSubreddit feeds, full comment threads, user history and search, as structured JSON. One key, no OAuth app and no per-app ceiling to nurse.open →data sourceX (Twitter)Posts, profiles, followers, replies, search, lists and trends, as structured JSON. One key, and no separate X developer plan.open →data sourceWeb scrapingScrape any page to clean markdown or schema-shaped JSON, run a web search that returns full page content in one call, and map a site before you crawl it.open →

» every tool on one page » youtube reference docs

Copy the setup prompt.Your agent does the rest.