Build your own Youtube MCP server
n8n template #3637Summary
Use templateThis n8n demonstrates how to build a simple Youtube MCP server to look up videos on Youtube and download their transcripts for research purposes. Youtube videos are a great source of new and updated information on a variety of cutting edge developments but they''re are not always simple to understand and lengthy videos may take too much time. Using this MCP server, you extract and feed their transcripts for your AI agents which then allows it to breakdown the content into manageble learnings and insights. How it works A MCP server trigger is used and connected to 3 custom workflow tools: Youtube Search, Youtube Transcripts and Usage Reports. Both Youtube tools use an external scraping servic
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Prompt
Help me set up the n8n workflow "Build your own Youtube MCP server" (https://n8n.io/workflows/3637). It uses: HTTP Request, Call n8n Workflow Tool. Import the template JSON into my n8n instance, list every credential I need to create, and walk me through testing it.
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