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Automate YouTube with Cursor

Schedule YouTube videos without leaving your editor. Cursor's agent drives postqueen over MCP or the CLI, right beside the code you are shipping.

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Quick start

Drop the MCP config into your project and Cursor's agent gets YouTube scheduling as a native tool.

MCP supported
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "postqueen": {
      "url": "https://api.postqueen.ai/mcp/YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
}
# Then ask: "Schedule our YouTube videos"

What Cursor can run on YouTube

YouTube updates beside your code

Cursor's agent can read the repo and the changelog, then turn them into scheduled YouTube videos over MCP without you leaving the editor.

Windows that fit YouTube

Tell Cursor 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 Cursor ships YouTube videos with real media attached and the publish time already set.

Drafts until you are ready

Ask Cursor 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

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

Step 2

Draft with Cursor

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 Cursor can pull the results after.

What YouTube allows

Cursor 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
YouTube

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 Cursor connect YouTube to postqueen?

Over MCP, registered once in Cursor'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 Cursor 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 Cursor 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 Cursor can turn the same brief into YouTube videos plus adapted versions for every other channel you run.

Does Cursor 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.

What YouTube analytics does postqueen show?

postqueen reports the video-level metrics YouTube's API exposes, such as views, likes and comments, alongside how your subscriber count moves. It is built to compare releases and posting slots, not to replace the depth of YouTube Studio.

Why did my scheduled YouTube upload fail?

The usual causes: the YouTube connection expired and needs a reconnect, the channel is not verified and the video runs past 15 minutes, the file is larger than YouTube accepts, or the daily YouTube Data API quota behind the connection is used up. postqueen shows the error on the post so you can fix it and requeue.

Ready to get started?

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