vidIQ MCP: YouTube keyword and competitor research in a chat

VidIQ's YouTube MCP server lets your AI app research keywords, competitors, trends and analytics for YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, then help you create what comes next. It's included on every vidIQ plan. ContextGate connects it to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor and records each research call, so a content plan built in a chat has a source trail.

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Add vidIQ to your AI app in four steps

  1. 1Click Connect vidIQ free and sign in with your vidIQ account.
  2. 2Keyword and competitor research is about other channels; analytics are your own numbers. All tools are on after connecting, so switch off the analytics tools if your numbers shouldn't be visible to everyone in the workspace.
  3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
  4. 4Ask your AI app for keyword ideas and competitor videos for your next YouTube upload, then open Activity to see the calls.

Creator research with vidIQ

  • Find keywords people search for on YouTube before you title a video.
  • Study competitors' channels and what's working for them.
  • Spot trends across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
  • Check your own analytics and plan the next upload around them.

Research with a record

  • Activity keeps a record of every vidIQ call.
  • Switch off any vidIQ tool and your AI app won't see it; calls to it are refused.

What you get with vidIQ and ContextGate

  • Your AI apps can use vidIQClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach vidIQ through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
  • You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any vidIQ tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
  • Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

vidIQ tools

vidIQ's own MCP server shows its tools once you sign in. When you connect it, they are listed and synced in your workspace.