yt-dlp MCP
Downloads video/audio and fetches subtitles from YouTube and other sites via yt-dlp for an agent.
🛡️ AgentReady threat assessment
MAESTRO 7-layer threat model + OWASP AIVSS risk score for yt-dlp MCP, derived from its capabilities.
AIVSS 8.1 · High
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This server wraps yt-dlp so an agent can download media, extract audio, and pull subtitles/transcripts from YouTube and many other sites. Tool surface: download, extract-audio, get-subtitles. Security surface: it fetches arbitrary remote media and writes files to local paths, and subtitle text is untrusted input to the model.
Key features
- Download video/audio from many sites
- Extract audio tracks
- Fetch subtitles and transcripts
Use cases
- Grab a transcript for an agent to summarize
- Archive or convert online media