How to integrate vidIQ MCP with Hermes

Connect Hermes to vidIQ MCP. Summarize latest comments on your video, list top-performing videos for your channel, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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vidIQ MCP is a media analytics service for researching YouTube and Instagram creators, videos, trends, thumbnails, and connected-channel analytics. It helps surface trends, optimize thumbnails and titles, and manage account-level actions.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your vidIQ account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,500+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating vidIQ with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to vidIQ

Ask your agent to connect to vidIQ, or simply request any vidIQ-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new vidIQ connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to vidIQ or request any vidIQ-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

What is the vidIQ MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The vidIQ MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your vidIQ account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform vidIQ operations on your behalf.

Way Forward

With vidIQ connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every vidIQ MCP action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Vidiq authorize with youtube

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

Vidiq balance

Check the user's current vidIQ credits balance.

Vidiq channel analytics

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

Vidiq channel performance trends

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

Vidiq channel search

Comprehensive YouTube channel search.

Vidiq channel stats

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

Vidiq channel videos

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

Vidiq comment insights

Analyze YouTube audience comments for a niche.

Vidiq compose

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.

Vidiq earnings calculate

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

Vidiq edit media

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).

Vidiq generate broll

Find free stock B-roll video clips.

Vidiq generate clips

Turn a long video into short, vertical clips.

Vidiq generate comment replies

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

Vidiq generate music

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

Vidiq generate script

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

Vidiq generate thumbnail

Generate a YouTube thumbnail.

Vidiq generate titles

Generate scored YouTube title suggestions.

Vidiq generate video

Generate a short video from a text prompt.

Vidiq get channels by ids

Get detailed information about YouTube channels by their IDs.

Vidiq get videos by ids

Get detailed metadata for one or more YouTube videos.

Vidiq ig accounts from outliers

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

Vidiq ig profile

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

Vidiq ig profile reels

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.

Vidiq instagram connected accounts

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

Vidiq instagram owner insights

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

Vidiq instagram publish reel

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

Vidiq instagram tiktok outlier search

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

Vidiq job poll

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

Vidiq jobs list

List your asynchronous vidIQ jobs, newest first.

Vidiq keyword research

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

Vidiq list competitors

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

Vidiq motion graphics

Render an animated MOTION GRAPHIC to a downloadable MP4 video.

Vidiq outliers

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

Vidiq refine thumbnail

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

Vidiq score thumbnail

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

Vidiq score title

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

Vidiq similar channels

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

Vidiq similar thumbnails

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

Vidiq similar videos

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

Vidiq submit feedback

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

Vidiq subscriber insights

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

Vidiq trend categories

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

Vidiq trending videos

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

Vidiq update competitors

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

Vidiq update video

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

Vidiq user channels

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

Vidiq user videos

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.

Vidiq video change history

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

Vidiq video comments

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

Vidiq video earnings estimate

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

Vidiq video stats

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

Vidiq video transcript

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

Vidiq video upload

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

Vidiq video watch

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

Vidiq voiceover clone

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

Vidiq voiceover clone start

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

Vidiq voiceover generate

Generate a voiceover MP3 from a script.

Vidiq voiceover list voices

List the available voiceover voices.

Vidiq watch shortform content

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

Vidiq youtube search

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

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone vidIQ MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of vidIQ tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from vidIQ and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Hermes fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right vidIQ tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which vidIQ scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your vidIQ data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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