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84 tools · your own account · never metered

YouTube: connect your own account

Channel, video and playlist data with view counts and statistics. Upload and manage videos too. Connect your own YouTube account once and your agent uses it from then on, through one olywork.com token. Calls on your own connection are never metered.
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What your agent can now do

YouTube, one prompt away

AGENT
ChatGPTClaudeClaude CodeCodexCursorGrokGemini CLI
list a channel's videos✓
a channel's profile & lifetime stats✓
get a video's metadata & stats✓
→
olywork
$ olywork call youtube.youtube.video.detail
✓ 200 · free
$ olywork call youtube.youtube.search.videos
✓ 200 · free
$ olywork call youtube.youtube.video.comments
✓ 200 · free
$ _
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YouTubeYOUR ACCOUNT
Channel, video and playlist data with view counts and statistics. Upload and manage videos too.
⚒ 84 TOOLS

Social media · https://youtube.googleapis.com

Set up

Set up YouTube in Claude Code, Codex or any agent

1Give this to your agent
in your agent's chat
set up olywork — https://olywork.com/llms.txt
2Or add the MCP server yourself
claude code
claude mcp add --transport http olywork https://olywork.com/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Connectors → add https://olywork.com/mcp as a custom connector.

Grok bot

Add https://olywork.com/mcp as a remote MCP connector in its tool settings.

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → https://olywork.com/mcp.

Cursor, Codex, any MCP client

Point it at https://olywork.com/mcp (HTTP transport).

CLI

curl -fsSL https://olywork.com/install.sh | sh

Plain HTTP

LangChain, CrewAI or any code: /call/<tool-id> + X-Olywork-Token: <token>. No SDK.

Try it

What's the best way to ask?

the prompt
Using olywork, list a channel's videos. Show me the price first.

Run one directly

a live-verified call
olywork call youtube.youtube.video.detail --query part=snippet,statistics --query id=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Why olywork.com

Why call YouTube through olywork.com

Your account, held safely

Connect once; olywork.com keeps the credential server-side and injects it per call. No key on any machine.

Price before the call

The provider's own rate, $0.000 markup. How billing works.

Account billing

Calls through your own connection are not metered by olywork.

Your account connection

Connect your account with the provider's supported authentication method.

Switch by changing a word

Another provider is a different word in the prompt, not a new integration.

One key, the whole catalog

The same token calls Bright Data, Just One API, ScrapeCreators and 3,199 other tools.

The shelf

All 84 YouTube tools

YouTube · 84 tools
  • Your YouTube channel profile — subscribers, views · OAuth connection · live-verified · free
    Get your YouTube channel's profile and lifetime stats (subscribers, views, video count) youtube.youtube.channel.profile
    included with the connected account; 1 quota unit of the project's 10,000/day
  • List your YouTube videos, private and unlisted included · OAuth connection · live-verified · free
    List your own channel's videos, newest first (includes private and unlisted ones) youtube.youtube.channel.videos
    included with the connected account; 100 quota units — the daily 10,000 allows ~100 of these calls
  • List a channel's videos via its uploads playlist id · OAuth connection · live-verified · free
    List a channel's uploaded videos cheaply, via its uploads playlist youtube.youtube.channel.videos.uploads
    included with the connected account; 1 quota unit
  • Search YouTube videos by keyword · OAuth connection · live-verified · free
    Search YouTube videos by keyword youtube.youtube.search.videos
    included with the connected account; 100 quota units — the most expensive Data API method, ~100 searches exhausts a day
  • List comments on a YouTube video by video id · OAuth connection · live-verified · free
    List the comments on a YouTube video (any public video, not just your own) youtube.youtube.video.comments
    included with the connected account; 1 quota unit
  • YouTube video stats by video id — views, likes, duration · OAuth connection · live-verified · free
    Get a YouTube video's metadata and stats (views, likes, comments, duration) youtube.youtube.video.detail
    included with the connected account; 1 quota unit per call regardless of how many ids
  • File an abuse report on YouTube · OAuth connection · free
    abuseReports.insert — Inserts a new resource into this collection. youtube.x.youtube-abusereports-insert
    50 quota units per call (default project allowance: 10,000 units/day)
  • List a YouTube channel's recent activities · OAuth connection · free
    activities.list — Retrieves a list of resources, possibly filtered. youtube.x.youtube-activities-list
    1 quota unit per call (default project allowance: 10,000 units/day)
  • See all 84 YouTube tools on the catalog →

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Jobs YouTube does, compared with the other providers

YouTube video statistics: views, likes and metadata by video id

Every provider that does this job, side by side: price per billing unit, measured success rate and speed.

YouTube channel stats API: subscribers, total views and profile

Every provider that does this job, side by side: price per billing unit, measured success rate and speed.

YouTube search API: find videos and channels by keyword

Every provider that does this job, side by side: price per billing unit, measured success rate and speed.

YouTube comment scraper: every comment on a video, as data

Every provider that does this job, side by side: price per billing unit, measured success rate and speed.

Social listening API: export the comments on Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and LinkedIn posts as data

Every provider that does this job, side by side: price per billing unit, measured success rate and speed.

Related

Same jobs, other providers

These providers answer some of the same capabilities as YouTube. The platform pages show them on one row with rate and coverage; choosing is yours, olywork.com does not route between providers automatically.

also on the catalog
Bright DataJust One APIScrapeCreatorsSerpApiTikHub
Questions

Before you start

Do I need a YouTube account?

Yes. This is an own-account connection: you sign in to YouTube once and your agent uses that connection through your olywork.com token. Calls on it are never metered.

How do I add YouTube to Claude Code?

Run: claude mcp add --transport http olywork https://olywork.com/mcp. One MCP server carries YouTube and the rest of the catalog.

Which frameworks does it work with?

Anything that speaks MCP (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Grok) and anything that can make an HTTP request (LangChain, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, plain code).

Is this the official YouTube MCP server?

No. olywork.com serves YouTube's real API through its own metered proxy: the request is the provider's own, the credential is injected server-side, and the answer is relayed verbatim. The official YouTube channels are linked above.