YouTube MCP | OAuth 2.0 YouTube connector for AI agents

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List and inspect videos, pull channel and video analytics, search YouTube, and read comments.

youtube_videos_list

List videos

List YouTube videos for a channel with filter options.

Parameters

Name

Type

Required

Description

channel_id

string

Optional

YouTube channel ID (default: authorized user's channel)

max_results

integer

Optional

Max videos to return

order

string

Optional

Order by: date, rating, viewCount, relevance

youtube_video_get

Get video

youtube_analytics_get

Get video analytics

youtube_search

Search YouTube

youtube_comments_list

List comments

Build your Agent

Drop the toolkit in, point it at the user, and your content agent can use YouTube from the first run.

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import { ScalekitClient } from "@scalekit-sdk/node";
import { DynamicStructuredTool } from "@langchain/core/tools";
import { createReactAgent } from "@langchain/langgraph/prebuilt";
import { z } from "zod";

const sk = new ScalekitClient(envUrl, clientId, clientSecret);

const { tools } = await sk.tools.listScopedTools("user_123", {
  filter: { connectionNames: ["youtube"], toolNames: ["youtube_videos_list", "youtube_video_get", "youtube_analytics_get"] },
  pageSize: 100,
});

const lcTools = tools.map((t) => new DynamicStructuredTool({
  name: t.tool.definition.name,
  description: t.tool.definition.description,
  schema: z.object({}).passthrough(),
  func: async (args) => {
    const { data } = await sk.tools.executeTool({
      toolName: t.tool.definition.name,
      identifier: "user_123",
      params: args,
    });
    return JSON.stringify(data);
  },
}));

const agent = createReactAgent({ llm, tools: lcTools });

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import { ScalekitClient } from "@scalekit-sdk/node";
import OpenAI from "openai";

const sk = new ScalekitClient(envUrl, clientId, clientSecret);
const openai = new OpenAI();

const { tools } = await sk.tools.listScopedTools("user_123", {
  filter: { connectionNames: ["youtube"], toolNames: ["youtube_videos_list", "youtube_video_get", "youtube_analytics_get"] },
  pageSize: 100,
});

const llmTools = tools.map((t) => ({
  type: "function",
  function: {
    name: t.tool.definition.name,
    description: t.tool.definition.description,
    parameters: t.tool.definition.input_schema,
  },
}));

const resp = await openai.responses.create({
  model: "gpt-4o", input: prompt, tools: llmTools,
});

import { ScalekitClient } from "@scalekit-sdk/node";
import Anthropic from "@anthropic-ai/sdk";

const sk = new ScalekitClient(envUrl, clientId, clientSecret);
const anthropic = new Anthropic();

const { tools } = await sk.tools.listScopedTools("user_123", {
  filter: { connectionNames: ["youtube"], toolNames: ["youtube_videos_list", "youtube_video_get", "youtube_analytics_get"] },
  pageSize: 100,
});

const llmTools = tools.map((t) => ({
  name: t.tool.definition.name,
  description: t.tool.definition.description,
  input_schema: t.tool.definition.input_schema,
}));

const msg = await anthropic.messages.create({
  model: "claude-sonnet-4-6", max_tokens: 1024,
  tools: llmTools,
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: prompt }],
});

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import { Agent } from "@google/adk/agents";
import {
  MCPToolset, StreamableHTTPConnectionParams,
} from "@google/adk/tools/mcp";

const toolset = new MCPToolset({
  connectionParams: new StreamableHTTPConnectionParams({
    url: "https://mcp.scalekit.com/youtube",
    headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${userScopedToken}` },
  }),
});

const agent = new Agent({
  name: "agent", model: "gemini-2.0-flash",
  tools: await toolset.getTools(),
});

Try these prompts

Paste any prompt into your agent to start using YouTube.

Videos & analytics

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List all videos on my channel.

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Which videos had the most views this month?

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Get CTR and watch time for [video id].

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Channel analytics for the last 30 days.

Search & discovery

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Search YouTube for [query].

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Find videos with [keyword] in title.

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Get metadata for video [id].

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List all playlists on [channel].

Engagement & comments

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List top comments on [video id].

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Which videos have the most comments this month?

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Subscribers gained this week.

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Videos with finish rate above 60%.

SEE HOW AUTH WORKS

Users authorize YouTube once. Their credentials stay vaulted, every call is checked, and every action is logged.

1

Authorize

Your user connects

YouTube

once. We tie it to their identity and the meetings they approved — no shared bot account, no org-wide access

Who:

user ‘A’

when:

Once per user

access:

Limited to user

2

Store

Their

YouTube

token lives in a vault scoped to them. User A's meetings are never reachable by an agent acting for user B, even on the same connection

vault:

encrypted

scope:

per-user

tokens:

auto-refreshed

3

Resolve

When your agent calls a

YouTube

tool, we fetch the right token server-side. It never touches your agent, never appears in the LLM context, never shows up in your logs

speed:

~40ms

check:

before every call

seen by:

nobody

4

Audit

Every

YouTube

tool call is logged — who triggered it, which meeting was fetched, what came back. 90 days of history, tied to the user who authorized it

history:

90 days

export:

SIEM-ready

logged:

every call

Test other agents

Same per-user auth pattern across other content agents and MCP connectors. Working code, live demos, fork what fits.

SALES

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Build targeted prospect lists with Apollo, enrich with firmographic data, and draft personalised outreach. Runs on a schedule.

Apollo

View agent

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HubSpot to Slack updates agent

Watch HubSpot deal stage changes and post structured updates to the right Slack channel. Reps stop checking the CRM all day.

HubSpot

Slack

View agent

Why Scalekit

Secure your agent's access. Connectors ship in minutes

Other connector libraries treat auth as a demo afterthought. Scalekit starts with user identity, scope enforcement, and audit.

01.

Shared tokens break per-user analytics

A shared token looks fine in a demo. In production every call looks like a service account. Scalekit resolves the real user credential so attribution, audit, and scope stay accurate.

// shared token
 audit → bot_service_account
 user_filter → broken

 // scalekit
 audit → user_abc
 scope → enforced ✓

02.

Authentication is not authorization

03.

Multi-tenancy is architectural

04.

YouTube today. Others tomorrow.

“Our agents act across Salesforce, Gong, Google Drive, and more, on behalf of every customer. Scalekit behind the scenes meant we can keep adding tools without ever rebuilding how credentials or tool calling work.”

Venu Madhav Kattagoni

Head of Engineering / Von

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the agent access YouTube as the user or as a shared key?

As the user. Each workspace member authorizes once and Scalekit resolves their credential at request time. Audit logs attribute every action to that user, not a shared service account.

Where is the YouTube oauth 2.0 stored?

In Scalekit's managed AES-256 token vault, namespaced per tenant. Refresh is automatic. Revocation is a single dashboard action. Tokens never appear in prompts, logs, or LLM context.

Can I limit what the agent is allowed to do in YouTube?

Yes. Pass a tool name filter to listScopedTools so the content agent only sees the subset you authorize. Pre-API-call scope checks block out-of-policy actions before the request reaches YouTube.

What happens when a user revokes YouTube access?

The connection is invalidated on the next tool call. Subsequent requests for that user fail closed with a clear error. Other users in the tenant remain unaffected. The event is logged for audit.

Can the agent access analytics for channels the user does not own?

No. YouTube Analytics API only returns data for channels the authorizing user manages. Public video metadata is accessible for any video, but analytics require ownership or edit access to the channel.

YouTube

Tools your content agent reaches for on YouTube, scoped per user.