Youtube with Claude Agent SDK

How to integrate Youtube MCP with Claude Agent SDK

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Youtube to the Claude Agent SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Youtube agent that can list your most recent uploaded videos, get subscriber count for your channel, search youtube for trending tutorials through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your Claude Agent SDK agent real control over a Youtube account through Composio's Youtube MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:

Get and set up your Claude/Anthropic and Composio API keys
Install the necessary dependencies
Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Youtube
Configure an AI agent that can use Youtube as a tool
Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Youtube operations

What is Claude Agent SDK?

The Claude Agent SDK is Anthropic's official framework for building AI agents powered by Claude. It provides a streamlined interface for creating agents with MCP tool support and conversation management.

Key features include:

Native MCP Support: Built-in support for Model Context Protocol servers
Permission Modes: Control tool execution permissions
Streaming Responses: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications
Context Manager: Clean async context management for sessions

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

The Youtube MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Youtube account. It provides structured and secure access to your channel data, so your agent can perform actions like searching videos, managing playlists, retrieving channel insights, and handling subscriptions on your behalf.

Channel activity monitoring: Let your agent fetch and summarize recent channel activities, including uploads, likes, playlist additions, and more, to keep you up to date at a glance.
Automated video and playlist management: Easily list videos from any channel, retrieve your own playlists, and organize your content—all through AI-driven commands.
Channel analytics and statistics: Ask your agent to pull detailed channel metrics such as subscriber counts, total views, or video counts for quick reporting and insights.
Subscription management: Have your agent list your current subscriptions or even subscribe you to new channels based on your interests or instructions.
Search and caption handling: Empower your agent to search YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists, as well as retrieve and download caption tracks for accessible viewing and content repurposing.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools

Triggers

Add Video to PlaylistTool to add a video to a playlist by inserting a playlist item.

Insert Channel SectionTool to create a new channel section for the authenticated user's YouTube channel.

Insert Comment ReplyTool to create a reply to an existing YouTube comment.

Create PlaylistTool to create a new YouTube playlist on the authenticated user's channel.

Delete Channel SectionTool to delete a YouTube channel section.

Delete CommentTool to delete a YouTube comment owned by the authenticated user or channel.

Delete PlaylistTool to delete a YouTube playlist owned by the authenticated user/channel.

Delete Playlist ItemTool to delete a playlist item (remove a video from a playlist).

Delete VideoTool to delete a YouTube video owned by the authenticated user/channel.

Get Channel ActivitiesGets recent activities from a YouTube channel including video uploads, playlist additions, likes, and other channel events.

Get channel ID by handleRetrieves the YouTube Channel ID for a specific YouTube channel handle.

Get Channel StatisticsGets detailed statistics for YouTube channels including subscriber counts, view counts, and video counts.

Video Details BatchRetrieves multiple YouTube video resource parts in a single batch call.

Get Video RatingRetrieves the ratings that the authorized user gave to a list of specified videos.

List captionsRetrieves a list of caption tracks for a YouTube video.

List Channel SectionsTool to retrieve channel sections from YouTube.

List channel videosLists videos from a specified YouTube channel.

List CommentsList individual comments from YouTube videos.

List Comment ThreadsTool to retrieve comment threads from YouTube videos or channels matching API request parameters.

List I18n LanguagesReturns a list of application languages that the YouTube website supports.

List I18n RegionsTool to retrieve a list of content regions that the YouTube website supports.

List Live Chat MessagesTool to list live chat messages for a specific chat.

List Playlist ImagesTool to retrieve playlist images associated with a specific playlist.

List Playlist ItemsTool to list videos in a playlist, with pagination support.

List Super Chat EventsLists Super Chat events for a channel, showing supporter purchases during live streams.

List user playlistsRetrieves playlists owned by the authenticated user, implicitly using mine=True.

List user subscriptionsRetrieves the authenticated user's YouTube channel subscriptions, allowing specification of response parts and pagination.

List Video Abuse Report ReasonsTool to retrieve a list of abuse report reasons that can be used to report abusive videos on YouTube.

List Video CategoriesTool to list YouTube video categories that can be associated with videos.

Download YouTube caption trackDownloads a specific YouTube caption track, which must be owned by the authenticated user, and returns its content as text.

Multipart upload videoUploads a video to YouTube using multipart upload in a single request.

Post Comment on VideoTool to post a new top-level comment on a YouTube video.

Rate VideoTool to add a like or dislike rating to a YouTube video, or remove an existing rating.

Report Video for AbuseTool to report a YouTube video for containing abusive content.

Search YouTubeSearches YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists using a query term, returning the raw API response.

Set Comment Moderation StatusTool to set the moderation status of one or more YouTube comments.

Subscribe to channelSubscribes the authenticated user to a specified YouTube channel, identified by its unique `channelId` which must be valid and existing.

Unsubscribe from channelTool to unsubscribe the authenticated user from a YouTube channel by deleting a subscription.

Update caption trackUpdates a YouTube caption track's metadata such as name, language, or draft status.

Update channelUpdates a channel's metadata including branding settings and localizations.

Update Channel SectionTool to update an existing YouTube channel section by ID.

Update CommentTool to modify the text of an existing YouTube comment.

Update PlaylistTool to modify an existing YouTube playlist's metadata (title, description, privacy status).

Update Playlist ItemTool to modify a playlist item's properties such as position or note.

Update thumbnailSets the custom thumbnail for a YouTube video using an image from a URL.

Update videoUpdates metadata for a YouTube video identified by videoId, which must exist; an empty list for tags removes all existing tags.

Upload videoUploads a video from a local file path to a YouTube channel; the video file must be in a YouTube-supported format.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:

Composio API Key and Claude/Anthropic API Key
Primary know-how of Claude Agents SDK
A Youtube account
Some knowledge of Python

Getting API Keys for Claude/Anthropic and Composio

Claude/Anthropic API Key

Go to the Anthropic Console and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models.
Keep the API key safe.

Composio API Key

Log in to the Composio dashboard.
Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.

Install dependencies

pip install composio-anthropic claude-agent-sdk python-dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the Claude Agents SDK.

What's happening:

composio-anthropic provides Composio integration for Anthropic
claude-agent-sdk is the core agent framework
python-dotenv loads environment variables

Set up environment variables

bash

COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
USER_ID identifies the user for session management
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY authenticates with Anthropic/Claude

Import dependencies

import asyncio
from claude_agent_sdk import ClaudeSDKClient, ClaudeAgentOptions
import os
from composio import Composio
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

What's happening:

We're importing all necessary libraries including the Claude Agent SDK and Composio
The load_dotenv() function loads environment variables from your .env file
This setup prepares the foundation for connecting Claude with Youtube functionality

Create a Composio instance and Tool Router session

async def chat_with_remote_mcp():
    api_key = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
    if not api_key:
        raise RuntimeError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set")

    composio = Composio(api_key=api_key)

    # Create Tool Router session for Youtube
    mcp_server = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["youtube"]
    )

    url = mcp_server.mcp.url

    if not url:
        raise ValueError("Session URL not found")

What's happening:

The function checks for the required COMPOSIO_API_KEY environment variable
We're creating a Composio instance using our API key
The create method creates a Tool Router session for Youtube
The returned url is the MCP server URL that your agent will use

Configure Claude Agent with MCP

# Configure remote MCP server for Claude
options = ClaudeAgentOptions(
    permission_mode="bypassPermissions",
    mcp_servers={
        "composio": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": url,
            "headers": {
                "x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
            }
        }
    },
    system_prompt="You are a helpful assistant with access to Youtube tools via Composio.",
    max_turns=10
)

What's happening:

We're configuring the Claude Agent options with the MCP server URL
permission_mode="bypassPermissions" allows the agent to execute operations without asking for permission each time
The system prompt instructs the agent that it has access to Youtube
max_turns=10 limits the conversation length to prevent excessive API usage

Create client and start chat loop

# Create client with context manager
async with ClaudeSDKClient(options=options) as client:
    print("\nChat started. Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end.\n")

    # Main chat loop
    while True:
        user_input = input("You: ").strip()
        if user_input.lower() in {"exit", "quit"}:
            print("Goodbye!")
            break

        # Send query
        await client.query(user_input)

        # Receive and print response
        print("Claude: ", end="", flush=True)
        async for message in client.receive_response():
            if hasattr(message, "content"):
                for block in message.content:
                    if hasattr(block, "text"):
                        print(block.text, end="", flush=True)
        print()

What's happening:

The Claude SDK client is created using the async context manager pattern
The agent processes each query and streams the response back in real-time
The chat loop continues until the user types 'exit' or 'quit'

Run the application

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(chat_with_remote_mcp())

What's happening:

This entry point runs the async chat_with_remote_mcp() function using asyncio.run()
The application will start, create the MCP connection, and begin the interactive chat session

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Youtube and Claude Agent SDK:

import asyncio
from claude_agent_sdk import ClaudeSDKClient, ClaudeAgentOptions
import os
from composio import Composio
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

async def chat_with_remote_mcp():
    api_key = os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
    if not api_key:
        raise RuntimeError("COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set")

    composio = Composio(api_key=api_key)

    # Create Tool Router session for Youtube
    mcp_server = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["youtube"]
    )

    url = mcp_server.mcp.url

    if not url:
        raise ValueError("Session URL not found")

    # Configure remote MCP server for Claude
    options = ClaudeAgentOptions(
        permission_mode="bypassPermissions",
        mcp_servers={
            "composio": {
                "type": "http",
                "url": url,
                "headers": {
                    "x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")
                }
            }
        },
        system_prompt="You are a helpful assistant with access to Youtube tools via Composio.",
        max_turns=10
    )

    # Create client with context manager
    async with ClaudeSDKClient(options=options) as client:
        print("\nChat started. Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end.\n")

        # Main chat loop
        while True:
            user_input = input("You: ").strip()
            if user_input.lower() in {"exit", "quit"}:
                print("Goodbye!")
                break

            # Send query
            await client.query(user_input)

            # Receive and print response
            print("Claude: ", end="", flush=True)
            async for message in client.receive_response():
                if hasattr(message, "content"):
                    for block in message.content:
                        if hasattr(block, "text"):
                            print(block.text, end="", flush=True)
            print()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(chat_with_remote_mcp())

Conclusion

You've successfully built a Claude Agent SDK agent that can interact with Youtube through Composio's Tool Router.

Key features:

Native MCP support through Claude's agent framework
Streaming responses for real-time interaction
Permission bypass for smooth automated workflows

You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.

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FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Youtube MCP?

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

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Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Youtube while using Tool Router?

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Youtube 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.

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

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 Youtube data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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How to integrate Youtube MCP with Claude Agent SDK

Table of Contents

Connect Youtube without Auth hassles

Introduction

Also integrate Youtube with

TL;DR

What is Claude Agent SDK?

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

Supported Tools & Triggers

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

How the Composio SDK works

Step-by-step Guide

Prerequisites

Getting API Keys for Claude/Anthropic and Composio

Install dependencies

Set up environment variables

Import dependencies

Create a Composio instance and Tool Router session

Configure Claude Agent with MCP

Create client and start chat loop

Run the application

Complete Code

Conclusion

How to build Youtube MCP Agent with another framework

ChatGPT

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Claude Code

Claude Cowork

Codex

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OpenClaw

Hermes

CLI

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Vercel AI SDK

Mastra AI

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CrewAI

OpenCode

VS Code

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Amara

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Chatfai

FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Youtube MCP?

Can I use Tool Router MCP with Claude Agent SDK?

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Youtube while using Tool Router?

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

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