tube-bridge for VS Code

io.github.thewhitewater/tube-bridge

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

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install tube-bridge in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "youtube-api-key",
      "description": "YOUTUBE_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tube-bridge-proxy",
      "description": "TUBE_BRIDGE_PROXY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tube-bridge-cache",
      "description": "TUBE_BRIDGE_CACHE",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "tube-bridge": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "tube-bridge"
      ],
      "env": {
        "YOUTUBE_API_KEY": "${input:youtube-api-key}",
        "TUBE_BRIDGE_PROXY": "${input:tube-bridge-proxy}",
        "TUBE_BRIDGE_CACHE": "${input:tube-bridge-cache}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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