📺 YouTube Channel MCP Server¶

Status: ✅ Installed & Configured | Last used: 2026-03-30

The YouTube Channel MCP server gives Copilot CLI direct read + write access to your YouTube channel — update titles, descriptions, tags, and manage playlists without leaving the terminal.

Quick Reference¶

Item	Value
NPM package	`youtube-channel-mcp@2.1.0`
Server location	`C:\Users\ssutheesh\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\youtube-channel-mcp\server.js`
Auth type	OAuth2 (Google Cloud)
Google Cloud project	`aguidetocloud-mcp`
Credentials file	`credentials.json` (alongside server.js)
Tokens file	`tokens.json` (alongside server.js)
MCP config entry	`youtube-channel-mcp` in `~/.copilot/mcp-config.json`

What It Can Do¶

Capability	Example
📋 List all videos	Pull titles, descriptions, tags, stats for every video
✏️ Update titles & descriptions	Batch-rename or add branded footers
🏷️ Manage tags	Standardise tags across all videos for SEO
📁 Manage playlists	Create, rename, reorder playlists
📊 Channel analytics	Views, subscribers, traffic sources
📝 Get transcripts	Pull captions/transcripts for study notes
🔍 Search videos	Find videos by keyword or tag

Setup History¶

Initial Setup (2026-03-30, Session `62d22297`)¶

Google Cloud Console → Created project aguidetocloud-mcp
Enabled APIs:
- YouTube Data API v3
Created OAuth2 credentials (Desktop app type)
Installed MCP server:
```
npm install -g youtube-channel-mcp
```
Authenticated: Ran server → opened browser → Google consent screen → tokens saved

Added to MCP config (~/.copilot/mcp-config.json):

"youtube-channel-mcp": {
  "type": "stdio",
  "command": "node",
  "args": [
    "C:\\Users\\ssutheesh\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\youtube-channel-mcp\\server.js"
  ]
}

Work Completed¶

Date	What	Videos Affected
2026-03-30	Updated descriptions with branded footer	74/74 videos
2026-03-30	Channel name updates (both channels)	—

Work Pending¶

Task	Priority
Tag standardisation across all videos	📌 Important
Playlist name & description cleanup	📋 Normal
Update YouTube descriptions with website page URLs	📋 Normal

Troubleshooting¶

Tokens Expired?¶

If you get an auth error, the refresh token may have expired. To re-authenticate:

cd C:\Users\ssutheesh\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\youtube-channel-mcp
# Delete old tokens
Remove-Item tokens.json
# Run server — it will open browser for OAuth consent
node server.js

MCP Server Not Loading?¶

Check it's in your config: Get-Content ~/.copilot/mcp-config.json
Restart Copilot CLI
Run /mcp to verify it shows up
Check the server runs manually: node "C:\Users\ssutheesh\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\youtube-channel-mcp\server.js"

API Quota¶

YouTube Data API v3 has a daily quota of 10,000 units. Each video update costs ~50 units, so you can update ~200 videos per day.

YouTube Channels¶

Channel	URL	Display Name	Content
Main	youtube.com/susanthsutheesh	A Guide to Cloud & AI	Full-length tutorials
Bites	youtube.com/aguidetocloud	A Guide to Cloud & AI — Bites	Bite-sized certification clips

Branded Description Footer¶

All 74 videos now have this standard footer:

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🌐 A Guide to Cloud & AI — Your AI & Cloud Skills Hub

📺 Watch on website: https://www.aguidetocloud.com
☕ Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/aguidetocloud/shop
💬 Community: https://susanth.bio.link/

🔔 Subscribe for weekly tutorials!
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

📊 Channel Analytics (Last 90 Days — as of 2026-04-01)¶

Channel Overview¶

Metric	Value
Subscribers	53,900
Total views	3,632,117
Videos	74
Country	New Zealand 🇳🇿

Traffic Sources¶

Source	Views	%
YouTube Search	57,381	35%
Browse / Other	28,426	17%
Subscribers	25,701	16%
External URLs	19,621	12%
Suggested Videos	18,982	12%
Playlists	4,808	3%

Audience¶

Segment	Value
Top countries	India (36%), USA (17%), UK (5%), Canada (4%), Australia (2%)
Core age group	25-44 male (55% of audience)
Top device	Desktop (62%), Mobile (31%), TV (5%)

Key Insights¶

AI content is king — M365 Copilot tutorial is #1 with 16K views and 283 subs gained
YouTube Search = 35% of traffic — SEO (tags, titles, descriptions) directly drives growth
Playlist traffic only 3% — better playlist organisation could unlock binge-watching
Desktop dominates — audience watches on computers (cert study behaviour)
India + US = 53% — two core markets

Pro Tip

After making YouTube changes, trigger the website scan to keep everything in sync:

gh workflow run scan-youtube.yml --repo susanthgit/aguidetocloud-revamp

#	Video	Views	Watch (hrs)	Subs Gained
1	M365 Copilot Full Tutorial (Word, Excel, Teams...)	16,324	5,028	283
2	MS-900 Full Course	15,046	2,311	108
3	AI-900 Practice Questions (100 Qs)	13,700	2,332	79
4	AZ-900 Full Course	10,692	4,690	133
5	SC-900 Full Course	9,904	1,421	113
6	MS-900 Practice Questions (100 Qs)	8,933	1,949	44
7	AI-900 Full Course	7,833	2,422	98
8	Microsoft Purview Masterclass	7,830	1,280	116
9	AZ-500 Full Course	5,610	943	84
10	AZ-204 Full Course	5,518	1,347	34