Summary
The smallest thing that turns "play that song" into an actual open tab.
There is no queue, no playlist management and no playback control — playTrack hands the top result to your browser and the server's involvement ends there. That narrowness is the point; searchTrack exists for the case where the top result is the wrong one.
What it is
A small MCP server over YouTube Music search — look up tracks by name, and open the top match in your default browser.
What you get
- searchTrack — search YouTube Music for tracks by name and read the matches back
- playTrack — search for a track and open the top result in your default browser
Requirements
A Google YouTube API key, supplied through your client config. The server is started by the client over stdio, so there is nothing to install by hand.
Setup effort
One command plus a key — npx -y @instructa/mcp-youtube-music, then supply credentials