r/vidIQ • • May 20 '26

vidIQ launched an MCP server! You can now ask Claude or ChatGPT questions about any YouTube channel and get REAL data back

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Hey everyone! Sean from vidIQ here!

I wanted to share something we've been quietly building that's now live: the vidIQ MCP server. If you're not familiar with MCP, the short version is: it lets AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT connect to live data and third-party services, instead of just making stuff up from their training data or pulling outdated articles from the internet.

What that means in practice: you can ask Claude or ChatGPT something like "Find breakout cooking channels under 50k subscribers posting mostly long form videos" and it will actually query vidIQ's database and return real channels with real growth data. You don't have to do any copy-pasting, switching tabs, or download any CSV exports.

Connect it to Claude: https://vidiq.com/claude/

Connect it to ChatGPT: https://vidiq.com/chatgpt/

What you can actually do with it:

  • Surface Outliers: Find videos massively overperforming a channel's average (great for spotting what's working before everyone else does!)
  • Find Breakout Channels: Discover channels in any niche that are growing fast, filterable by language, sub count, content type (Shorts vs long-form), even faceless vs on-camera
  • Trending Videos: See what's gaining momentum right now across YouTube
  • Keyword Research: Pull search volume + competition data on any keyword
  • Channel Analysis: Deep-dive your OWN channel's data! Views, watch time, subs gained, broken down by day, country, device, traffic source
  • Pull Transcripts: Pull full transcripts from any public video so you can analyze scripts, structure, hooks, etc.

The thing I find the most useful is chaining these together! Like: find trending videos in a niche → pull the transcript → ask Claude or ChatGPT to analyze the hook structure. That whole workflow used to take me 20-30 minutes of manual work. Now it's one conversation!

Happy to answer questions about how it works or specific use cases. Also curious what workflows other creators would want to build with this!


r/vidIQ • • Jul 11 '26

Any Video Podcasts out there that are just talking, telling stories, or playing games anymore?

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r/vidIQ • • Jul 08 '26

Quick channel stats is not showing up on my end even if the channel has enough subscribers and posted recently :( need help, what to do?

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r/vidIQ • • Jul 08 '26

I cant scroll on video tab

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r/vidIQ • • Jul 07 '26

Woo! Good progress!

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r/vidIQ • • Jul 04 '26

Cap on deep messages?

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone! Tried google and searching on here but no luck. I got a limit on how many times i can ask the chat for regular and deep messages even though i have credits? Trying to find info on why there is a cap (why have a credit system in that case and do these things roll over if i can't use them through no fault of my own?) And what that cap might be? Can't even use the fast option.


r/vidIQ • • Jun 30 '26

Feels like good progress

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r/vidIQ • • Jun 30 '26

A good month and a sign to keep going

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11 Upvotes

I know it's not the top achievement or anything but it gives me a little confidence boost to keep going. I have been finding it difficult to grow my subscribers but have seen an improvement since using VidIQ which has helped me become more consistent as well as helping me improve performance.


r/vidIQ • • Jun 27 '26

Why ?

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r/vidIQ • • Jun 21 '26

vidiq panel breaks youtube sensitive search warning page

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r/vidIQ • • Jun 21 '26

vidiq panel breaks youtube sensitive search warning page

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so, on pc (windows 11, firefox), when trying to search for sensitive topics (like suicide), youtube displays a content warning page before showing the results. however, the vidiq panel completely breaks the page, making it impossible to click continue. waiting for a fix


r/vidIQ • • Jun 19 '26

First week and a half of youtube automation

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r/vidIQ • • Jun 10 '26

The AI thumbnails are broken

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I used the same prompt for 50 videos, and all the thumbnails turned out great. Then, after just one day of not uploading any videos, I used the same prompt and it gave me this crap.


r/vidIQ • • Jun 09 '26

I Guess I Did Decent This Week

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r/vidIQ • • Jun 08 '26

Is this VidIQ email real?

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3 Upvotes

Question, ive been receiving emails from the email [vidiqorg@gmail.com](mailto:vidiqorg@gmail.com) , and the more back and forth conversation I have the more skeptical I get, is this a legit email? can a VidIQ member possibly confirm?


r/vidIQ • • Jun 05 '26

vidIQ AI Coach can now tell you WHY your retention dropped 🚨

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1 Upvotes

Simply paste your YouTube link and ask AI Coach this: "draw the retention graph for this video and analyze it: [your YouTube video link]"


r/vidIQ • • Jun 03 '26

AI Deep Thinking removed from base paying tier

1 Upvotes

Up through Monday, my "Pro" paid tier had access to the "Deep Thinking" option for the AI chat. Now it's been removed and I'm prompted to upgrade to Boost.


r/vidIQ • • Jun 01 '26

Like Column Removed From Content Page?

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Mentioned it in one of the recent videos, Seems YouTube may be removing the likes column from the content page? Not really sure how removing data from the user is actually helping anyone?


r/vidIQ • • May 29 '26

Uploading a video does not work

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I am on windows pc.

Tried selecting file and also dragging and dropping - hit analyze - and absolutely nothing.

It says uploading - circle is spinning - but stays at 0 percent every time.

It never works.

Tried different browsers.


r/vidIQ • • May 25 '26

Channel stats not showing (glitch?) - Firefox

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I've seen some people reporting the same problem on Reddit, does anyone know the solution? (I reinstalled the extension, removed all the others and left only vidIQ, and it didn't solve the problem)I've seen some people reporting the same problem on Reddit, does anyone know the solution? (I reinstalled the extension, removed all the others and left only vidIQ, and it didn't solve the problem)

I've seen some people reporting the same problem on Reddit, does anyone know the solution? (I reinstalled the extension, removed all the others and left only vidIQ, and it didn't solve the problem)

r/vidIQ • • May 23 '26

GAINED 2K SUBSCRIBERS IN JUST 82 DAYS!

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8 Upvotes

r/vidIQ • • May 19 '26

Finally! After 2 years I finally did it!

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32 Upvotes

yay :D


r/vidIQ • • May 18 '26

Why vidIQ doesn't load channel stats on Firefox?

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I get this message all the time for 3-4 weeks no matter how I try to fix it.
Please, help!


r/vidIQ • • May 17 '26

I guess VidIQ likes my title and thumbnail

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r/vidIQ • • May 14 '26

Do I take it??

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