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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What your bot can do in vidIQ MCP
Looks up
- Vidiq balanceCheck the user's current vidIQ credits balance.
- Vidiq channel analyticsGet YouTube Analytics data for a channel you own — views, watch time, subscribers gained, likes, comments, retention, traffic sources,…
- Vidiq channel performance trendsGet a channel's typical video performance curve — how views accumulate over time after publication.
- Vidiq channel searchComprehensive YouTube channel search.
- Vidiq channel statsGet YouTube channel statistics including subscriber count, total views, video count, and growth over a configurable time period.
- Vidiq channel videosGet videos from a YouTube channel by format (long-form, Shorts, or live streams).
- Vidiq comment insightsAnalyze YouTube audience comments for a niche.
- Vidiq earnings calculateCalculate estimated monthly YouTube earnings (low/mid/high USD) for a given number of monthly views.
- Vidiq generate brollFind free stock B-roll video clips.
- Vidiq generate comment repliesGenerate multiple draft replies to one viewer comment on a YouTube video, with one reply per requested tone.
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- Vidiq get channels by idsGet detailed information about YouTube channels by their IDs.
- Vidiq get videos by idsGet detailed metadata for one or more YouTube videos.
- Vidiq ig accounts from outliersFind Instagram creator/account candidates from existing outlier reel discovery.
- Vidiq ig profileFetch public Instagram profile by handle.
- Vidiq ig profile reelsFetch a creator's reels by handle.
- Vidiq instagram connected accountsList the signed-in user's Instagram accounts already connected to vidIQ.
- Vidiq instagram owner insightsFetch private Instagram owner insights for an OAuth-backed account already connected to the signed-in vidIQ user.
- Vidiq instagram tiktok outlier searchSearch Instagram Reels and TikTok videos together for posts that substantially outperform each creator's median.
- Vidiq job pollCheck the status of an asynchronous vidIQ job and retrieve its result.
- Vidiq jobs listList your asynchronous vidIQ jobs, newest first.
- Vidiq keyword researchResearch YouTube keywords to find search volume, competition, and related keyword opportunities.
- Vidiq list competitorsList the YouTube channels the user is tracking as competitors of one of their own channels.
- Vidiq outliersFind viral, breakout, and overperforming YouTube videos — videos getting significantly more views than their channel's average.
- Vidiq score thumbnailScore a YouTube video thumbnail for click-through-rate potential.
- Vidiq score titleScore a YouTube video title for click-through-rate potential.
- Vidiq similar channelsFind COMPETITORS of a channel — either the user's own channel or a specific named channel.
- Vidiq similar thumbnailsFind long-form YouTube videos whose thumbnails LOOK similar — visual/semantic similarity over the thumbnail images themselves.
- Vidiq similar videosFind high-performing YouTube videos similar to a seed video - the video-level counterpart of vidiq_similar_channels.
- Vidiq subscriber insightsAnalyze subscriber overlap and best times to post for a YouTube channel you own.
- Vidiq trend categoriesList all available trend category slugs with display names and descriptions.
- Vidiq trending videosFind YouTube videos that are trending right now — gaining views rapidly based on views-per-hour velocity.
- Vidiq user channelsGet the list of YouTube channels authorized by the current user.
- Vidiq user videosList videos from one of the current user's directly authorized YouTube channels through the authenticated vidIQ MCP connection, including…
- Vidiq video change historyGet the observed title and thumbnail change history for one YouTube video.
- Vidiq video commentsGet YouTube comment threads for a video or channel, including replies.
- Vidiq video earnings estimateEstimate a single YouTube video's ad-revenue earnings as a low/mid/high range in USD.
- Vidiq video statsGet historical statistics for a YouTube video over time, including views, likes, comments, and views per hour (VPH).
- Vidiq video transcriptGet the full transcript (captions) of a YouTube video.
- Vidiq voiceover list voicesList the available voiceover voices.
- Vidiq youtube searchSearch all of YouTube for videos, channels, or playlists matching a query, with optional filters (topic, region, publish date, duration,…
Takes action
- Vidiq authorize with youtubeCheck or establish fresh YouTube authorization for the current vidIQ OAuth connection.
- Vidiq composeCompose a short video from scenes (video clips and/or images), an optional voiceover, background music, and overlays (text, image, or…
- Vidiq edit mediaEdit a media file.
- Vidiq generate clipsTurn a long video into short, vertical clips.
- Vidiq generate musicGenerate ONE original, royalty-free background-music track (WAV) from a text prompt.
- Vidiq generate scriptWrite a full long-form video script from a topic, title, concept, and research.
- Vidiq generate thumbnailGenerate a YouTube thumbnail.
- Vidiq generate titlesGenerate scored YouTube title suggestions.
- Vidiq generate videoGenerate a short video from a text prompt.
- Vidiq instagram publish reelPublish an approved hosted MP4 using this same tool across short calls.
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- Vidiq motion graphicsRender an animated MOTION GRAPHIC to a downloadable MP4 video.
- Vidiq refine thumbnailChange or improve a YouTube thumbnail by describing what you want in plain words.
- Vidiq submit feedbackSubmit feedback about the vidIQ MCP — feature requests, bug reports, improvement suggestions, survey responses, or general comments.
- Vidiq update competitorsFollow or unfollow competitor channels for one of the user's own YouTube channels.
- Vidiq update videoUpdate metadata or publishing settings for a YouTube video owned by the user.
- Vidiq video uploadImport an MP4 attachment or public downloadable URL and return a hosted videoUrl plus uploadId.
- Vidiq video watchWatch a long-form YouTube video end-to-end and return a structured markdown walkthrough.
- Vidiq voiceover cloneClone a voice from an audio sample and save it to the user's voice library.
- Vidiq voiceover clone startStart cloning the speaker's voice from a YouTube video.
- Vidiq voiceover generateGenerate a voiceover MP3 from a script.
- Vidiq watch shortform contentWatch one piece of short-form content from Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and return a markdown scene-by-scene walkthrough.