# YouTube for your AI agent: search videos, read comments, profile channels

RouterGrowth gives an agent YouTube as data through one MCP server: search videos by keyword, pull a channel's recent uploads, read the comments under a video and look up the channel profile. Each call is paid on its own, with no quota project to manage.

HTML page: https://www.routergrowth.com/tools/youtube

## What your agent can do

| Capability | What it returns | Providers | From | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [`social.search`](https://www.routergrowth.com/catalog/social.search) | Public posts matching a keyword on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook: brand mentions, category conversations, competitor chatter. | Apify | $0.002 per result | live |
| [`social.posts`](https://www.routergrowth.com/catalog/social.posts) | Recent public posts for a social handle. | Apify | $0.002 per result | live |
| [`social.comments`](https://www.routergrowth.com/catalog/social.comments) | Comments on one public post URL (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, and replies to a post on X): text, author, likes, replies, time. | Apify | $0.002 per result | live |
| [`social.profile`](https://www.routergrowth.com/catalog/social.profile) | Public profile data for a social handle: name, followers, bio, verified, plus the bio link, every listed link, the person's own domain (link hubs such as Linktree excluded), a public or business email when the profile exposes one, profile URL, business flag, category and location when the platform provides them. | Apify | $0.002 per match | live |

## Ask it like this

- Find the top videos comparing HubSpot and Salesforce and summarise the comments under each. (`social.search`, `social.comments`)
- List the last 20 uploads from these competitor channels with their view counts. (`social.posts`)
- Which channels review tools in our category, and how big is each? (`social.search`, `social.profile`)

## Connect

MCP server: `https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp` (OAuth, or an API key header).

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http routergrowth https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp
```

```bash
npm install -g routergrowth && routergrowth setup
routergrowth run -c social.search -i '{"platform": "youtube", "query": "hubspot vs salesforce", "limit": 20}'
```

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.routergrowth.com/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTERGROWTH_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"capability": "social.search", "input": {"platform": "youtube", "query": "hubspot vs salesforce", "limit": 20}}'
```

## Worth knowing

- **Read, not upload.** The catalog reads YouTube. It does not upload, comment or manage a channel.
- **Comments at scale.** Long comment sections are where buyers compare tools in their own words. social.comments returns them as records your agent can group.
- **No quota arithmetic.** You pay per result returned, not per unit of a daily quota.

## Questions

### Is there a YouTube MCP server?

RouterGrowth is an MCP server with YouTube search, channel uploads, comments and channel profiles as tools.

### Can I scrape YouTube comments?

Yes. Pass a video URL to social.comments for the comments with author, likes, replies and time.

### Can I track a competitor's channel?

Schedule social.posts on the channel and keep the uploads you have not seen, with their view and like counts.

### Does it return transcripts?

Not as a catalog capability today. The catalog returns the video's metadata, the channel and the comments.

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