YouTube MCP Server for n8n: Search, Playlists & Analytics

Give your n8n AI agent YouTube powers—search, playlists, and analytics via an MCP server

This n8n workflow exposes a YouTube MCP Server with Bearer-authenticated access, enabling an AI agent to call YouTube Data API and YouTube Analytics API through MCP tools. From finding videos and managing playlists to retrieving comments, trending content, and analytics reports—everything is handled via secure API calls inside n8n.

What this workflow does

• Receives MCP tool calls through an n8n webhook endpoint secured with Bearer authentication.
• Searches YouTube videos by keyword query or lists videos from a specified YouTube channel.
• Fetches video details (snippet, statistics, content details, and status) for a specific video.
• Updates and moderates videos, including metadata changes (title, description, tags, privacy) and actions to like/dislike/rate or delete a video when requested.
• Retrieves channel information for a provided channel ID or the authenticated user’s own channel.
• Manages playlists: create, list, fetch, update, delete playlists; and list/add/remove playlist items.
• Pulls YouTube insights using direct YouTube API HTTP requests: comment threads, trending videos by region/category, categories by region, and channel analytics reports for a date range with selected metric/dimension sets.

Use cases

• Build an AI content research assistant that finds videos by keywords and returns structured video + channel data.
• Create a workflow that automatically curates YouTube playlists by adding/removing playlist items based on agent decisions.
• Generate monthly or campaign analytics summaries by pulling channel analytics reports and trending inputs.

Technical details

• n8n nodes/tools: YouTube Tool, HTTP Request Tool, MCP Trigger, and a secure Bearer Auth setup.
• APIs: YouTube Data API and YouTube Analytics API (via OAuth2 credentials) plus direct YouTube API HTTP requests for additional endpoints.
• Security: Bearer-authenticated MCP endpoint for AI agent tool calls.
• Setup highlights: create a YouTube OAuth2 credential in n8n and select it for YouTube/HTTP Request nodes; then create an HTTP Bearer Auth credential with your agent token for the MCP webhook.