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@magun/watch

v1.0.5

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MCP server — search YouTube and play videos directly in your terminal from Claude Code

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marcdhimarcdhi

Keywords

mcpyoutubeterminalvideoclaude

Readme

@magun/watch

MCP server that lets you tell Claude Code to play any YouTube video directly in your terminal.

Just say things like:

, "play the best tmkoc episode" , "put on some lofi hip hop" , "watch a funny cricket fails compilation"

and it finds the video on YouTube and plays it right there.

Prerequisites

You need two system tools installed, mpv (video player) and yt-dlp (YouTube downloader).

Ubuntu / Debian

sudo apt install mpv yt-dlp

macOS

brew install mpv yt-dlp

Setup

Option 1 — via npx (recommended, no cloning needed)

claude mcp add yt-play -s user -- npx @magun/watch

Option 2 — run locally after cloning

git clone https://github.com/magun-cloud/watch.git
cd watch
npm install
npm run build
claude mcp add yt-play -s user -- node /absolute/path/to/watch/dist/index.js

After adding the server, restart Claude Code.

Usage

Just talk to Claude Code naturally:

, "play the best tmkoc episode" , "play lofi hip hop" , "show me a cricket highlights video" , "watch something funny"

Claude will call the play_video tool, search YouTube, and start playing in your terminal.

Press q to quit the video at any time.

Terminal quality

The video renders as colored blocks by default (--vo=tct mode), which works in every terminal.

If you are on a modern terminal like Kitty or WezTerm you can get much better quality. Open src/index.ts, find --vo=tct and change it to --vo=kitty or --vo=sixel, then run npm run build again.

How it works

MCP servers communicate with Claude over stdin/stdout. If we piped raw video through that connection it would crash Claude Code instantly.

The trick is opening /dev/tty directly, which is a file descriptor pointing straight to your real terminal screen, completely bypassing the MCP pipe. So the video goes to your eyes, and only a short status message goes back to Claude.

License

MIT