# vidIQ MCP

vidIQ MCP lets authorized agents research YouTube and Instagram creators, videos, trends, comments, thumbnails, titles, and connected-channel analytics, with explicitly annotated media and account-management actions.

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## Actions

- **Vidiq authorize with youtube**: Check or establish fresh YouTube authorization for the current vidIQ OAuth connection.
- **Vidiq balance** (read-only): Check the user's current vidIQ credits balance.
- **Vidiq channel analytics** (read-only): Get YouTube Analytics data for a channel you own — views, watch time, subscribers gained, likes, comments, retention, traffic sources,…
- **Vidiq channel performance trends** (read-only): Get a channel's typical video performance curve — how views accumulate over time after publication.
- **Vidiq channel search** (read-only): Comprehensive YouTube channel search.
- **Vidiq channel stats** (read-only): Get YouTube channel statistics including subscriber count, total views, video count, and growth over a configurable time period.
- **Vidiq channel videos** (read-only): Get videos from a YouTube channel by format (long-form, Shorts, or live streams).
- **Vidiq comment insights** (read-only): Analyze YouTube audience comments for a niche.
- **Vidiq compose**: Compose a short video from scenes (video clips and/or images), an optional voiceover, background music, and overlays (text, image, or…
- **Vidiq earnings calculate** (read-only): Calculate estimated monthly YouTube earnings (low/mid/high USD) for a given number of monthly views.
- **Vidiq edit media**: Edit a media file.
- **Vidiq generate broll** (read-only): Find free stock B-roll video clips.
- **Vidiq generate clips**: Turn a long video into short, vertical clips.
- **Vidiq generate comment replies** (read-only): Generate multiple draft replies to one viewer comment on a YouTube video, with one reply per requested tone.
- **Vidiq generate music**: Generate ONE original, royalty-free background-music track (WAV) from a text prompt.
- **Vidiq generate script**: Write a full long-form video script from a topic, title, concept, and research.
- **Vidiq generate thumbnail**: Generate a YouTube thumbnail.
- **Vidiq generate titles**: Generate scored YouTube title suggestions.
- **Vidiq generate video**: Generate a short video from a text prompt.
- **Vidiq get channels by ids** (read-only): Get detailed information about YouTube channels by their IDs.
- **Vidiq get videos by ids** (read-only): Get detailed metadata for one or more YouTube videos.
- **Vidiq ig accounts from outliers** (read-only): Find Instagram creator/account candidates from existing outlier reel discovery.
- **Vidiq ig profile** (read-only): Fetch public Instagram profile by handle.
- **Vidiq ig profile reels** (read-only): Fetch a creator's reels by handle.
- **Vidiq instagram connected accounts** (read-only): List the signed-in user's Instagram accounts already connected to vidIQ.
- **Vidiq instagram owner insights** (read-only): Fetch private Instagram owner insights for an OAuth-backed account already connected to the signed-in vidIQ user.
- **Vidiq instagram publish reel**: Publish an approved hosted MP4 using this same tool across short calls.
- **Vidiq instagram tiktok outlier search** (read-only): Search Instagram Reels and TikTok videos together for posts that substantially outperform each creator's median.
- **Vidiq job poll** (read-only): Check the status of an asynchronous vidIQ job and retrieve its result.
- **Vidiq jobs list** (read-only): List your asynchronous vidIQ jobs, newest first.
- **Vidiq keyword research** (read-only): Research YouTube keywords to find search volume, competition, and related keyword opportunities.
- **Vidiq list competitors** (read-only): List the YouTube channels the user is tracking as competitors of one of their own channels.
- **Vidiq motion graphics**: Render an animated MOTION GRAPHIC to a downloadable MP4 video.
- **Vidiq outliers** (read-only): Find viral, breakout, and overperforming YouTube videos — videos getting significantly more views than their channel's average.
- **Vidiq refine thumbnail**: Change or improve a YouTube thumbnail by describing what you want in plain words.
- **Vidiq score thumbnail** (read-only): Score a YouTube video thumbnail for click-through-rate potential.
- **Vidiq score title** (read-only): Score a YouTube video title for click-through-rate potential.
- **Vidiq similar channels** (read-only): Find COMPETITORS of a channel — either the user's own channel or a specific named channel.
- **Vidiq similar thumbnails** (read-only): Find long-form YouTube videos whose thumbnails LOOK similar — visual/semantic similarity over the thumbnail images themselves.
- **Vidiq similar videos** (read-only): Find high-performing YouTube videos similar to a seed video - the video-level counterpart of vidiq_similar_channels.
- **Vidiq submit feedback**: Submit feedback about the vidIQ MCP — feature requests, bug reports, improvement suggestions, survey responses, or general comments.
- **Vidiq subscriber insights** (read-only): Analyze subscriber overlap and best times to post for a YouTube channel you own.
- **Vidiq trend categories** (read-only): List all available trend category slugs with display names and descriptions.
- **Vidiq trending videos** (read-only): Find YouTube videos that are trending right now — gaining views rapidly based on views-per-hour velocity.
- **Vidiq update competitors**: Follow or unfollow competitor channels for one of the user's own YouTube channels.
- **Vidiq update video**: Update metadata or publishing settings for a YouTube video owned by the user.
- **Vidiq user channels** (read-only): Get the list of YouTube channels authorized by the current user.
- **Vidiq user videos** (read-only): List videos from one of the current user's directly authorized YouTube channels through the authenticated vidIQ MCP connection, including…
- **Vidiq video change history** (read-only): Get the observed title and thumbnail change history for one YouTube video.
- **Vidiq video comments** (read-only): Get YouTube comment threads for a video or channel, including replies.
- **Vidiq video earnings estimate** (read-only): Estimate a single YouTube video's ad-revenue earnings as a low/mid/high range in USD.
- **Vidiq video stats** (read-only): Get historical statistics for a YouTube video over time, including views, likes, comments, and views per hour (VPH).
- **Vidiq video transcript** (read-only): Get the full transcript (captions) of a YouTube video.
- **Vidiq video upload**: Import an MP4 attachment or public downloadable URL and return a hosted videoUrl plus uploadId.
- **Vidiq video watch**: Watch a long-form YouTube video end-to-end and return a structured markdown walkthrough.
- **Vidiq voiceover clone**: Clone a voice from an audio sample and save it to the user's voice library.
- **Vidiq voiceover clone start**: Start cloning the speaker's voice from a YouTube video.
- **Vidiq voiceover generate**: Generate a voiceover MP3 from a script.
- **Vidiq voiceover list voices** (read-only): List the available voiceover voices.
- **Vidiq watch shortform content**: Watch one piece of short-form content from Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and return a markdown scene-by-scene walkthrough.
- **Vidiq youtube search** (read-only): Search all of YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists matching a query, with optional filters (topic, region, publish date, duration,…