YouTube MCP server

YouTube MCP server for social media publishing

Claude cannot reach YouTube by itself. Connect Blotato's MCP server once and it can publish videos, Shorts to YouTube from a plain prompt. One hosted endpoint, no developer app, no copy-paste.

This one publishes. Search "YouTube MCP server" and you get two different kinds of tool: scrapers that read public YouTube data, and publishers that put a post live on your own account. Blotato is the second kind, on YouTube's official API, not browser automation.

MCP endpoint https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp

Connect YouTube to Claude See pricing

Updated August 2026

How do I post to YouTube with an AI agent?

Connect your YouTube account. Sign in to Blotato and connect YouTube through the normal login flow. Blotato holds the tokens and refreshes them, so this is the last time you think about auth.
Add the MCP server to Claude. In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors, then add a custom connector pointing at https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp. Claude Code and Cowork take the same URL.
Ask Claude to post. Write it the way you would say it out loud: "Upload this file to YouTube as a Short with a title and description, unlisted for now." Claude calls the publish tool and Blotato puts the post live.

What can your agent do on YouTube through Blotato?

Publish to YouTube

Post videos, Shorts directly, with the fields each format requires.

Schedule for later

Queue a YouTube post for a future time and let Blotato publish it on the clock.

Upload or generate media

Hand Claude a local file or a URL, or have it generate the image or video first.

List connected accounts

See which YouTube accounts are connected and pick the right one to post from.

Check post status

Confirm a post actually went live, and read back the error if a platform rejected it.

On YouTube, Blotato covers publishing and scheduling. It does not yet cover analytics, comments and direct messages on this platform, so if that is what you need, this is the wrong tool and it is better you know now. YouTube's analytics and comment endpoints sit in a separate API with its own quota model, so they are a different integration rather than a flag to switch on.

Tools your agent can call on YouTube

These are the exact MCP tool names exposed on this platform, so you can reference them directly in a prompt or check them against your client's tool list.

blotato_get_user
blotato_list_accounts
blotato_create_post
blotato_get_post_status
blotato_list_posts
blotato_create_presigned_upload_url
blotato_get_schedule
blotato_list_schedules
blotato_update_schedule
blotato_delete_schedule
blotato_list_visual_templates
blotato_create_visual
blotato_get_visual_status
blotato_create_source
blotato_get_source_status
blotato_get_credits
blotato_buy_credits

Which AI agents can post to YouTube?

Eight, and they all reach YouTube through the same endpoint. Claude authenticates over OAuth. The rest take your API key as a blotato-api-key header. Nothing here runs a local server.

Agent	Connects with
Claude Code	OAuth
Claude Desktop and Cowork	OAuth
Claude.ai on the web	OAuth
Cursor	API key header
OpenAI Codex	API key header
Antigravity and Replit Agent	API key header

The full setup for each client, including the copy-pasteable config, is on the social media MCP server page. Blotato does not document a direct ChatGPT connection, so use Codex if you are in the OpenAI ecosystem.

What does it look like in practice?

Screenshots from the full YouTube walkthrough, showing the connection and a real published post.

The Blotato MCP server connected in Claude Code — The same endpoint drives YouTube uploads.

Claude uploading a video to YouTube through Blotato — Title, description, and privacy all set from the prompt.

The published video live on YouTube — No Google Cloud project and no quota to manage yourself.

What does the full workflow look like?

Sabrina Ramonov runs her own posting through this server. In this walkthrough she drives the whole thing from Claude Code: cross-posting, carousels and slideshows, and the content calendar.

Why not just build it against the YouTube API?

YouTube charges uploads against a daily quota that a handful of videos can exhaust, and resumable uploads are a different code path from every other network.

You can absolutely build it yourself, and if YouTube is the only network you will ever post to, that is a reasonable call. The trade shows up at the second platform: every network has its own auth model, its own upload flow, and its own review process, and they change on their own schedules. Blotato is one endpoint across nine of them, at a flat price that does not move when you post more.

If you would rather own that layer yourself, we wrote up the honest tradeoff between open-source and managed posting APIs, and our roundup of social media MCP servers covers the alternatives, including the ones that only draft rather than publish.

Who is already publishing to YouTube this way?

These are Blotato customers describing their own agent and API setups, in their own words.

Before discovering Blotato, I was navigating the complexities of starting a faceless YouTube channel, facing trial and error. Since then, Blotato has been a game-changer, allowing me to create videos I'm truly proud of. The platform's ease of use, comprehensive support, and the guidance from founder Sabrina have made content creation seamless and rewarding. Everything I need is right there in one place.

Devon Rodriguez
Faceless YouTube, NYC

I've recently started an automation with Blotato, Make and Heygen about creating short videos with my avatar about wine news. I think without Blotato I would have skipped either amount of content or some step, so it have saved me a lot of time. I'd say the best part of Blotato is the vast list of channels to distribute the content. I'd recommend to use Blotato if you have multiple Social Media accounts to keep up to date.

Pekka Salokannel
Co-Founder & Creative Director, Finland

FAQ

YouTube MCP server FAQs

01 Can Claude post to YouTube?

Yes. Claude cannot reach YouTube on its own, but connecting an MCP server gives it the tools to publish. Add Blotato's server at https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp, connect your YouTube account once, then ask Claude to post in plain language.

02 What is a YouTube MCP server?

It is a Model Context Protocol server that exposes YouTube actions as tools an AI assistant can call. Instead of you describing the YouTube API to Claude, the server hands Claude a publish action it can invoke directly.

03 Do I need YouTube API access or a developer app?

No. Blotato holds the platform integration and the OAuth tokens, so you connect your account through a normal login flow instead of registering a developer app. YouTube charges uploads against a daily quota that a handful of videos can exhaust, and resumable uploads are a different code path from every other network.

04 Can Claude schedule YouTube posts for later?

Yes. Ask for a time and Blotato queues the post and publishes it then. You do not need Claude open at the scheduled moment.

05 What else can Blotato's MCP server do on YouTube?

06 Does this YouTube MCP server publish, or only read YouTube data?

It publishes. This matters because "YouTube MCP server" returns two different kinds of tool: scrapers that read public YouTube data for analysis, and publishers that put a post live on your own account. Blotato is the second kind, built on YouTube's official API rather than scraping, so your agent finishes the job instead of handing you a draft.

07 Which AI agents can post to YouTube?

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, Claude.ai on the web, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, and Replit Agent can all publish to YouTube through Blotato's MCP server at https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp. Claude connects over OAuth; Cursor, Codex, Antigravity, and Replit Agent connect with a blotato-api-key header. Blotato does not document a direct ChatGPT connection, so use Codex if you are in the OpenAI ecosystem. The same endpoint also covers the other eight platforms.

08 Which YouTube MCP server should I use?

Decide by whether you need to publish or to read. Search "YouTube MCP server" and most results are scrapers that read public YouTube data, plus open-source servers you host yourself and register your own YouTube developer app for. Blotato is the hosted publisher: your agent puts a post live on your own YouTube account through the official API, with 17 tools behind one endpoint at $29/mo flat. If you only need to read public YouTube data, a scraper is the cheaper answer and you should use one.

09 How much does it cost?

Blotato starts at $29/mo flat for 20 connected accounts, and the price does not move with your posting volume. Note that API and MCP access is not part of the 7-day trial: generating a key starts the paid Starter plan, so plan on subscribing rather than trialing it.

Does the same connection cover other platforms?

YouTube is one target on the same endpoint. Once Claude is connected, it can publish to the rest without any further setup.