Connect YouTube

YouTube analytics MCP for Claude

Connect your YouTube channel and ask Claude what your videos are actually doing. Views, watch time, subscriber growth, per-video performance — and whether any of it sends people to your website.

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What Claude can do with YouTube

YouTube Studio can tell you a video did well. It cannot tell you whether the people who watched it ever visited your site. datanephew reads your channel and your website analytics together, which is the only version of that question worth asking.

Reading your data
  • Per-video performance

    Views, watch time, average view duration and retention for each video, compared against your own baseline rather than a generic benchmark.

  • Audience and growth

    Subscriber movement, where your viewers come from, and which videos actually acquire subscribers rather than just views.

  • Did it reach the website?

    Read against GA4, so Claude can tell you whether a video that did numbers also produced visits and enquiries.

See it in action

A real YouTube question, start to finish

You talk to Claude. Claude steps out to datanephew when it needs your actual YouTube data.

  • Which of my videos is actually working?
  • Where do people stop watching?
  • Did my last video bring anyone to my website?
  • Which video gets me the most subscribers?
  • Is my watch time going up or down this quarter?
  • What kind of video should I make next?
  • Are people finding my videos through search or suggestions?
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My last video got 12,000 views. Was that actually good for the business?

Setup: authorise, paste, ask

Most YouTube MCP setups you'll find want you to clone a GitHub repo, install dependencies, manage credentials in a config file, and keep a local server running on your own machine. This one doesn't.

1

Authorise YouTube

Sign in with Google and approve the channel you own.

2

Paste one connector URL into Claude

Add your personal connector URL in Claude's settings. That's the whole install — nothing runs on your machine, and there's nothing to keep alive or update.

3

Ask

Open a conversation and ask about your YouTube data the way you'd ask a person. Claude remembers what you looked at last time.

What's free and what's Pro

Your own numbers are free. Anything about data you don't own — competitors, keywords you're not ranking for yet, who links to whom — is Pro.

YouTube is free, permanently
  • Everything on this page costs nothing. YouTube reads data you already own, so it stays on the free tier.
  • No credit card, no trial clock, no row limits.
  • Pro ($9/mo) adds research into data you don't own — keyword demand, competitor rankings, backlink profiles.
  • Pro also lets Claude act on what it finds: page titles, meta descriptions, tracking tags, sitemap submission.

YouTube and Claude — common questions

Is YouTube data free on datanephew?

Yes. Your own channel is your own data, so it sits on the free tier permanently.

What does this add over YouTube Studio?

The join. Studio knows your channel; it does not know your website. Claude reads both, so "did that video do anything for the business" becomes answerable.

Can Claude upload or edit my videos?

No. YouTube publishing is not part of what is available today.

Which channels can Claude see?

Only the ones you own and approve during sign-in. Access is read-only.

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