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Ask your AI what is ranking on YouTube for a topic, and what a channel has published.

Keyword search across YouTube videos, sorted by relevance, date, views or rating; the details of any video; and the videos a channel has published — asked from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor. No Google Cloud project, API key or daily quota of your own: each call is quoted before it runs and paid from one toolfare balance.

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1Connect your AI app

Pick the app you use. You do this once, and every API on toolfare is then available in it.

Add toolfare as a connector in Claude

Add to Claude
https://api.toolfare.ai/mcp
  1. 1Open Customize → Connectors and choose "Add custom connector".
  2. 2Paste this URL as the remote MCP server URL.
  3. 3Leave the OAuth client id and secret under Advanced settings empty.
  4. 4Complete the browser authorization, then return to your conversation.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise. A Free account may hold one custom connector in total.

Claude’s own instructions

2What to ask

Copy a prompt into your AI app once you’re connected. It picks the right one of the 4 tools and tells you the price first.

  • Turn a channel link into its channel id

    From $0.003

    Channel id resolved from a channel URL

    • “What is the channel id for youtube.com/@mkbhd?”
    • “Look up this competitor’s YouTube channel so we can list its videos.”

  • What a channel has published

    From $0.003

    Videos published by a channel

    • “List the latest videos from this competitor’s YouTube channel.”
    • “What topics does this channel cover in its recent uploads?”

  • What ranks on YouTube for a keyword

    From $0.006

    Videos matching a keyword

    • “What are the most-viewed YouTube videos about Notion templates?”
    • “Find recent YouTube reviews of our product.”
    • “Which videos rank for “best CRM for startups”?”

  • The details of one video

    From $0.003

    Details of a video

    • “Pull the details of this YouTube video: dQw4w9WgXcQ.”
    • “Who published this video, and what does its description say?”

Use it when

  • You are researching video SEO: which videos and channels rank for a keyword.
  • You want to see what a competitor’s channel has been publishing.
  • You are shortlisting YouTube creators in a niche for sponsorships.
  • You have a video link and want its details without leaving the chat.

Look elsewhere when

  • You need a video’s comments, captions or transcript. None of these tools return them.
  • You want short-video data from TikTok instead. Use this instead
  • You want Google web results for the same keyword, not YouTube results. Use this instead

YouTube Data directly, or through toolfare

Directly

  • A Google Cloud project, an enabled YouTube Data API and an API key
  • A daily quota to budget, with search calls costing more of it than lookups
  • Your own code to page through results and join channels to videos

Through toolfare

  • Pay per call, quoted before it runs — no quota to plan around
  • No Google Cloud project and no key to hand to an agent
  • YouTube beside Instagram, TikTok and Google search results in the same question

This is four public lookups, not the whole YouTube Data API: no comments, captions, playlists or analytics for your own channel. If those matter, use Google’s API directly.

Limits

  • Public videos and channels only.
  • Channel uploads take a channel id starting with UC; resolve a channel URL first if you only have the link.
  • Video details take the 11-character video id, not a full URL.
  • Pay as you go from your toolfare balance, in US dollars; there is no subscription. A call runs when your balance covers its quote.
YouTube Data documentation

Questions

No. The data is YouTube’s public data, collected through a third-party provider. toolfare is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.

No. Connect toolfare once and your agent can search and look up videos; there is no project to create and no quota to request.

Each tool’s current price is shown on this page and quoted before the call runs. You pay per call from a prepaid balance, with no subscription.

Yes. Besides the MCP server for AI apps, the same tools work through the toolfare CLI or over HTTP with an API key.

Not from this source. It returns search results, video details and channel uploads only.

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