fetch vs youtube-connector-mcp

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	fetch by modelcontextprotocol	youtube-connector-mcp by ShellyDeng08
Stars	★ 85,748	★ 71
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Score	76	48
Official	✓	—
Categories	Web ScrapingAI / LLM ToolsProductivity	MediaWeb ScrapingAI / LLM Tools
Language	TypeScript	Python
Last commit	this month	2 mo ago

fetch · Summary

An MCP server that fetches web content and converts HTML to markdown, allowing LLMs to read web pages.

youtube-connector-mcp · Summary

MCP server for YouTube that enables AI assistants to search videos, channels, playlists, and transcripts.

fetch · Use cases

LLMs reading news articles and blogs
Content analysis of web pages
Retrieving information from public websites
Chunked reading of large web documents

youtube-connector-mcp · Use cases

Research YouTube content programmatically with AI assistance
Extract transcripts and comments for AI content analysis
Monitor channel statistics and track new uploads

fetch · Install

Installation

**Using uv (recommended)** No specific installation needed. Use uvx to run the server directly:

uvx mcp-server-fetch

**Using PIP** Install via pip:

pip install mcp-server-fetch

Then run as:

python -m mcp_server_fetch

Claude Desktop Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fetch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-server-fetch"]
    }
  }
}

youtube-connector-mcp · Install

# 1. Get your YouTube API Key from Google Cloud Console
#    https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials

# 2. Set your API key as environment variable
export YOUTUBE_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"

# 3. Install pipx first (if not installed)
brew install pipx  # macOS
# or: apt install pipx  # Ubuntu/Debian

# 4. Install the package
pipx install youtube-connector-mcp

# 5. Add the MCP server
claude mcp add youtube-connector-mcp youtube-connector-mcp -s user -e YOUTUBE_API_KEY="${YOUTUBE_API_KEY}"

# 6. Restart Claude Code and start using!

**Claude Desktop Configuration:**

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-connector-mcp": {
      "command": "youtube-connector-mcp",
      "env": {
        "YOUTUBE_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

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