Web, Desktop and Mobile
Connect YouTube to Claude
Give Claude your real YouTube history — videos and Shorts, titles and descriptions, view and interaction counts, and subscriber history — so it answers from what you actually published instead of guessing. Connecting is free.
search_content Example Shorts and long-form, last 90 days
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I rebuilt my studio for $500
4.1× your average
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The one setting that fixed my audio
3.3× your average
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A year of posting daily: the honest numbers
1.9× your average
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My desk setup in 20 seconds
1.1× your average
How to connect YouTube to Claude
- 1 Connect YouTube to Mysocial. One OAuth approval. Mysocial reads your catalogue so it is ready before Claude asks for it.
- 2 Select Add to Claude. Mysocial’s name and connection details are filled in for you.Add to Claude ↗
Or add it manually
In Claude’s Connectors settings, add a custom connector and paste this URL.
- 3 Review the details in Claude and choose Add.
- 4 Sign in to Mysocial and approve. Claude now works from the channels you have connected.
Custom remote connectors are available on Free and paid plans; Free is limited to one. In Team and Enterprise workspaces, an owner may need to add the connector before members authenticate.
What to ask Claude once your videos and Shorts are connected
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“Which videos beat my channel average, and what do their first 30 seconds share?”
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“Separate my Shorts from my long-form and compare how each performs.”
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“Which older videos are still earning views, and what are they about?”
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“What did my best-performing titles do differently?”
None of these are answerable from a screenshot or a pasted export. They need your whole catalogue, and they need Claude to know what typical looks like for you specifically.
What makes YouTube different
YouTube is the only platform where a video keeps earning for years, so the back catalogue matters more than recency. Shorts and long-form also run on separate distribution — averaging them produces a number that describes neither, and holding them apart is the first thing worth doing.
Why Claude
Claude's remote connectors work across web, desktop and mobile, so you can ask about your connected channels from the client that suits you. Claude also supports Skills, so the Mysocial workflows — drafting a next post, researching your market, keeping brand docs current — install alongside the connector rather than being prompts you have to remember.
Free versus paid
Free gives your assistant the record. Paid gives it the understanding. The line is provenance, not a quota: what YouTube already reports about you is free to read. What Mysocial's own pipeline produced — transcribing, ingesting, analysing — is paid.
Free
- Your posts and captions across every connected channel
- View, like, comment and share counts
- Complete metrics and follower history
- Measured audience demographics
- Search and rank your whole catalogue
Paid
- Video transcripts — what you actually said, not just what you captioned
- The comments themselves, not only how many there were
- Audience psychographics — what your audience responds to, not just who they are
- Hit DNA — the structural patterns behind your best posts
- Creator Universe — outlier research across creators beyond your own channels
Details
- Made by
- Mysocial
- Works in
- Claude · Web, Desktop and Mobile
- Reads
- Videos and Shorts, titles and descriptions, view and interaction counts, and subscriber history
- Cost
- Free to connect
- Connector URL
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https://app.mysocial.io/mcp
Questions
How do I connect YouTube to Claude?
Connect your YouTube account to Mysocial, then select Add to Claude, review the prefilled details, and approve access. Claude can then read your YouTube posts, metrics and comments directly — no exports and no copy-paste.
Is it free to connect YouTube to Claude?
Connecting is free, and so is reading what YouTube itself reports — your posts and captions, view, like and comment counts, follower history and measured audience demographics. What Mysocial's own pipeline produces is paid: video transcripts, the comment text itself, audience psychographics, Hit DNA and Creator Universe research.
What can Claude actually see?
Only the channels you connect, and only what you approve. Mysocial relays your videos and Shorts, titles and descriptions, view and interaction counts, and subscriber history. It cannot post on your behalf and it cannot see accounts you have not connected.
Does this work with other AI assistants?
Yes. Mysocial is a standard Model Context Protocol server, so the same URL works with Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex and any other MCP client.