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Automate YouTube with Claude Code

Queue YouTube videos from your terminal. Claude Code drives postqueen over MCP or the CLI, so scheduling happens in the session you already have open.

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Quick start

Register the postqueen MCP server once and YouTube scheduling becomes a tool Claude Code can call. The plain CLI works too.

MCP supported
Terminal
# Add the postqueen MCP server
claude mcp add --transport http postqueen \
  https://api.postqueen.ai/mcp/YOUR_API_KEY
 
# Then ask in your session:
# "Queue three YouTube videos for this
#  week, mornings at 9"

What Claude Code can run on YouTube

YouTube tools in your terminal

Over MCP, scheduling and analytics show up as first-class tools. Over the CLI, every command returns JSON that Claude Code can chain reliably for YouTube.

Windows that fit YouTube

Tell Claude Code when your subscribers are most active and it schedules videos into that window on YouTube, day after day, without reminders.

Native video, native timing

Video uploads travel through the same postqueen call, so Claude Code ships YouTube videos with real media attached and the publish time already set.

Drafts until you are ready

Ask Claude Code for drafts only. They sit on the postqueen calendar unscheduled, so you can edit them and pick the time yourself, and nothing reaches your subscribers on YouTube until you do.

Three steps to a full queue

Step 1

Discover YouTube

Claude Code calls postqueen to list your connected channels and sees what YouTube supports, so drafts start from real capabilities, not guesses.

Step 2

Draft with Claude Code

Give it the brief. The agent writes YouTube-shaped videos and proposes publish times that match when your subscribers are around.

Step 3

Check and publish

Look over the queue on the postqueen calendar and change anything you want. postqueen publishes each post at its time, and Claude Code can pull the results after.

What YouTube allows

Claude Code reads these limits from postqueen before it composes, so a draft that would be rejected never reaches the queue.

Title length
Up to 100 characters per video title
Description
Up to 5,000 characters per description
Tags
Up to 500 characters across all tags on a video
Video length
15 minutes until the channel is verified, then up to 12 hours
File size
Up to 256 GB per upload
Shorts
Vertical 9:16 video, up to 3 minutes
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Everything postqueen does on YouTube

Scheduling, AI drafts, analytics and team roles, in one guide.

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F.A.Q.

Frequently asked questions

How does Claude Code connect YouTube to postqueen?

Over MCP, registered once in Claude Code's own config so the YouTube tools are there in every session. It also runs commands, so the CLI covers the same YouTube videos when you would rather script them; both use the same API key.

Can Claude Code schedule YouTube videos at exact times?

Yes. Give it exact slots or a rule like mornings at nine and it sets publish times on the videos it creates, so your subscribers see them at the right moment.

Will Claude Code publish to YouTube on its own?

Only if you ask it to. Tell it to save drafts and nothing is scheduled: the videos wait on the calendar until you set a time. Tell it to schedule, and they go out at the times you can see, which is the setup most people move to once they trust the output.

Can one brief cover YouTube and other channels too?

Yes. postqueen connects 30 channels, so Claude Code can turn the same brief into YouTube videos plus adapted versions for every other channel you run.

Does Claude Code access cost extra on postqueen?

No. The agent uses your regular API key and plan limits: unlimited posts on every plan, and channel counts from 5 on Creator up to uncapped on Ultimate.

How is this different from YouTube's own scheduling?

YouTube can schedule a video you have already uploaded by hand. postqueen handles the upload itself and keeps the channel on the same calendar as everything that promotes it, so the Short, the X thread and the newsletter go out around the release instead of being chased separately.

Can the AI write titles and descriptions?

Yes. The assistant drafts titles, descriptions and tag sets from your video's topic and rewrites anything you highlight. Nothing publishes before you schedule it, and agents like Claude Code or Codex can prepare a whole batch through the MCP server.

Ready to get started?

Queue this week's posts in minutes, or hand the whole thing to your favorite AI. postqueen keeps publishing either way.

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