get_video_info is the tool that earns its place: reading duration, uploader and available formats before committing to a download means a two-hour stream or a format your player cannot open is caught before the bytes move. Everything runs through your own yt-dlp install, so what it can reach is whatever that version supports.
A wrapper over yt-dlp, the command-line downloader, exposing it as two tools. One reads metadata only; the other downloads, with quality, container format and output path as arguments, and an audio-only switch that turns the same call into an extraction.
- A video's metadata — title, duration, uploader and available formats — read without downloading it
- A video downloaded to a location you choose, with quality and container preferences
- Audio extracted instead, in mp3, m4a, ogg or opus
- Output paths set per call through a filename template
Yt-dlp installed on the machine — brew install yt-dlp on macOS, pip install yt-dlp on Linux — and npx on your PATH. One environment variable points at the binary if it is not on the default path, and another sets where files land, which is /tmp otherwise.
One command — npx @gtvar/yt-dlp-mcp