# vidIQ integration

> vidIQ MCP server for YouTube analytics, keyword research, trending video discovery, and channel intelligence (read-only).

- Authentication: apiKey

## Tools (14)

- **Breakout Channels**: Find emerging YouTube channels gaining momentum in a niche.
- **Channel Analytics**: Access personal YouTube Analytics data for the connected vidIQ user's own channel.
- **Channel Performance Trends**: Analyze a YouTube channel's view-accumulation curves and momentum over time.
- **Channel Stats**: Get headline stats for a YouTube channel: subscribers, upload frequency, engagement.
- **Channel Videos**: List uploads from a YouTube channel, filterable by long-form, Shorts, or livestreams.
- **Get Channels By IDs**: Fetch metadata for up to 50 YouTube channels in a single call.
- **Get Videos By IDs**: Fetch metadata for up to 50 YouTube videos in a single call.
- **Keyword Research**: Find YouTube keywords with search volume and competition scores for a topic.
- **List Available Tools**: Discover all vidIQ MCP tools and their live input schemas via the JSON-RPC tools/list method.
- **Outlier Videos**: Identify videos on a channel that significantly outperformed the channel's recent averages.
- **Trending Videos**: Show real-time trending YouTube videos filtered by category and region.
- **Video Comments**: Pull comment threads from a YouTube video to mine audience sentiment.
- **Video Stats**: View, like, and comment stats for a YouTube video (historical timeline where available).
- **Video Transcript**: Get the full transcript of a YouTube video.

## Related prompts

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- [Weekly YouTube niche radar to Slack](https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/weekly-youtube-niche-radar-to-slack.md)
- [Plan next week's YouTube videos in Notion every Friday](https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/plan-next-weeks-youtube-videos-in-notion-every-friday.md)
- [Weekly YouTube competitor tracker in Google Sheets](https://www.generalinput.com/prompts/weekly-youtube-competitor-tracker-in-google-sheets.md)

Connect vidIQ in General Input: https://www.generalinput.com/apps/vidiq