Yutu

Yutu is an MCP server that hooks Claude into the YouTube Data API. It handles uploads, metadata updates, comment moderation, and playlist management without leaving your chat window. The pitch is simple: if you run a YouTube channel and want to automate the boring bits, this lets you do it through natural language instead of clicking through Studio. I'd reach for this if I were uploading batches of videos or managing comments across multiple uploads. The bulk upload workflow is the standout: you can point Claude at a folder of video files, specify metadata in a single prompt, and let it handle the queue. That's genuinely faster than the web UI for anything over three videos. Comment moderation is similarly useful if you're dealing with spam or want to reply to a dozen comments with similar phrasing. You can filter by keyword, mark as spam, or draft replies without context-switching. The quirks are mostly about YouTube's own API limits. You need a YouTube API key, which means setting up a Google Cloud project and enabling the right services. The free tier caps you at 10,000 quota units per day, and a single video upload costs 1,600 units, so you're looking at six uploads before you hit the ceiling. Yutu doesn't abstract this away, it just surfaces the API as-is. That's fine if you know what you're getting into, but it's not a magic wand for channels uploading dozens of videos daily. Playlist management works but feels like a secondary feature. You can create playlists, add videos, reorder them. It's functional, nothing more. The real value is in the upload and comment workflows, where the time saved is measurable. Who shouldn't bother: anyone uploading fewer than a couple of videos a week, or anyone who doesn't already have a YouTube API project set up. The overhead of getting the key and understanding quota limits isn't worth it for casual use. But if you're running a content operation with regular uploads or community management, this is a solid time-saver.