How to connect vidIQ MCP to Claude

Check or establish fresh YouTube authorization for the current vidIQ OAuth connection.

Check the user's current vidIQ credits balance.

Get YouTube Analytics data for a channel you own — views, watch time, subscribers gained, likes, comments, retention, traffic sources, demographics, and revenue (monetized channels).

Get a channel's typical video performance curve — how views accumulate over time after publication.

Comprehensive YouTube channel search.

Get YouTube channel statistics including subscriber count, total views, video count, and growth over a configurable time period.

Get videos from a YouTube channel by format (long-form, Shorts, or live streams).

Analyze YouTube audience comments for a niche.

Compose a short video from scenes (video clips and/or images), an optional voiceover, background music, and overlays (text, image, or video), then render it to an MP4.

Calculate estimated monthly YouTube earnings (low/mid/high USD) for a given number of monthly views.

Edit a media file: trim a clip, extract its audio, grab a thumbnail frame, normalize its loudness, or probe it for metadata (duration, dimensions, streams).

Find free stock B-roll video clips.

Turn a long video into short, vertical clips.

Generate multiple draft replies to one viewer comment on a YouTube video, with one reply per requested tone.

Generate ONE original, royalty-free background-music track (WAV) from a text prompt.

Write a full long-form video script from a topic, title, concept, and research.

Generate a YouTube thumbnail.

Generate scored YouTube title suggestions.

Generate a short video from a text prompt.

Get detailed information about YouTube channels by their IDs.

Get detailed metadata for one or more YouTube videos.

Find Instagram creator/account candidates from existing outlier reel discovery.

Fetch public Instagram profile by handle: bio, follower/following counts, post count, verification, external URL, with the profile picture returned inline.

Fetch a creator's reels by handle: shortcode, caption, play/like/comment counts, duration, timestamp, pinned-profile status, with each reel's cover returned inline as an image.

List the signed-in user's Instagram accounts already connected to vidIQ.

Fetch private Instagram owner insights for an OAuth-backed account already connected to the signed-in vidIQ user.

Publish an approved hosted MP4 using this same tool across short calls.

Search Instagram Reels and TikTok videos together for posts that substantially outperform each creator's median.

Check the status of an asynchronous vidIQ job and retrieve its result.

List your asynchronous vidIQ jobs, newest first.

Research YouTube keywords to find search volume, competition, and related keyword opportunities.

List the YouTube channels the user is tracking as competitors of one of their own channels.

Render an animated MOTION GRAPHIC to a downloadable MP4 video.

Find viral, breakout, and overperforming YouTube videos — videos getting significantly more views than their channel's average.

Change or improve a YouTube thumbnail by describing what you want in plain words.

Score a YouTube video thumbnail for click-through-rate potential.

Score a YouTube video title for click-through-rate potential.

Find COMPETITORS of a channel — either the user's own channel or a specific named channel.

Find long-form YouTube videos whose thumbnails LOOK similar — visual/semantic similarity over the thumbnail images themselves.

Find high-performing YouTube videos similar to a seed video - the video-level counterpart of vidiq_similar_channels.

Submit feedback about the vidIQ MCP — feature requests, bug reports, improvement suggestions, survey responses, or general comments.

Analyze subscriber overlap and best times to post for a YouTube channel you own.

List all available trend category slugs with display names and descriptions.

Find YouTube videos that are trending right now — gaining views rapidly based on views-per-hour velocity.

Follow or unfollow competitor channels for one of the user's own YouTube channels.

Update metadata or publishing settings for a YouTube video owned by the user.

Get the list of YouTube channels authorized by the current user.

List videos from one of the current user's directly authorized YouTube channels through the authenticated vidIQ MCP connection, including public, unlisted, and private videos.

Get the observed title and thumbnail change history for one YouTube video.

Get YouTube comment threads for a video or channel, including replies.

Estimate a single YouTube video's ad-revenue earnings as a low/mid/high range in USD.

Get historical statistics for a YouTube video over time, including views, likes, comments, and views per hour (VPH).

Get the full transcript (captions) of a YouTube video.

Import an MP4 attachment or public downloadable URL and return a hosted videoUrl plus uploadId.

Watch a long-form YouTube video end-to-end and return a structured markdown walkthrough.

Clone a voice from an audio sample and save it to the user's voice library.

Start cloning the speaker's voice from a YouTube video.

Generate a voiceover MP3 from a script.

List the available voiceover voices.

Watch one piece of short-form content from Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and return a markdown scene-by-scene walkthrough.

Search all of YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists matching a query, with optional filters (topic, region, publish date, duration, channel).