tube-bridge MCP Server

Name: tube-bridge MCP Server
Author: io.github.TheWhiteWater

io.github.TheWhiteWater/tube-bridge

Repository Registry

What is the tube-bridge MCP server?

YouTube MCP server for search, transcripts, frames, comments, channels, and local semantic corpora.

How to install tube-bridge

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

YOUTUBE_API_KEY
secret
Optional YouTube Data API v3 key for comments, channel tools, and higher-quality search.
TUBE_BRIDGE_PROXY
secret
Optional HTTP(S) or SOCKS proxy URL for yt-dlp and transcript requests.
TUBE_BRIDGE_CACHE
Optional directory for cache and corpus databases.

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tube-bridge": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tube-bridge"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YOUTUBE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_YOUTUBE_API_KEY>",
        "TUBE_BRIDGE_PROXY": "<YOUR_TUBE_BRIDGE_PROXY>",
        "TUBE_BRIDGE_CACHE": "<YOUR_TUBE_BRIDGE_CACHE>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tube-bridge": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tube-bridge"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YOUTUBE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_YOUTUBE_API_KEY>",
        "TUBE_BRIDGE_PROXY": "<YOUR_TUBE_BRIDGE_PROXY>",
        "TUBE_BRIDGE_CACHE": "<YOUR_TUBE_BRIDGE_CACHE>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tube-bridge": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tube-bridge"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YOUTUBE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_YOUTUBE_API_KEY>",
        "TUBE_BRIDGE_PROXY": "<YOUR_TUBE_BRIDGE_PROXY>",
        "TUBE_BRIDGE_CACHE": "<YOUR_TUBE_BRIDGE_CACHE>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "tube-bridge": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tube-bridge"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YOUTUBE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_YOUTUBE_API_KEY>",
        "TUBE_BRIDGE_PROXY": "<YOUR_TUBE_BRIDGE_PROXY>",
        "TUBE_BRIDGE_CACHE": "<YOUR_TUBE_BRIDGE_CACHE>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add tube-bridge --env YOUTUBE_API_KEY=<YOUR_YOUTUBE_API_KEY> --env TUBE_BRIDGE_PROXY=<YOUR_TUBE_BRIDGE_PROXY> --env TUBE_BRIDGE_CACHE=<YOUR_TUBE_BRIDGE_CACHE> -- uvx tube-bridge