mcp-youtube-intelligence 0.2.3 → 0.2.4

package/README.md

@@ -60,7 +60,12 @@ Add to your Claude Desktop / MCP client config:
 **`analyze_channel`** — Extract intelligence from a YouTube channel
 
 ```
-channel_url: YouTube channel URL or @handle (e.g. @fireship, youtube.com/@fireship)
+channel_url: YouTube channel URL or @handle. Accepts:
+               - @handle (e.g. @fireship)
+               - full URL with handle (e.g. youtube.com/@fireship)
+               - /channel/UC... URL
+               - bare 24-character UC... channel ID
+               - legacy /c/name or /user/name URL
 max_videos:  Number of recent videos to analyze (default: 5, max: 50)
 ```
 

package/build/analyze_channel.js

@@ -130,7 +130,23 @@ export async function resolveChannel(input, apiKey) {
     else {
         // custom_url — fall back to search (costs 100 quota units); rare path
         const searchUrl = `${YT_API_BASE}/search?part=snippet&type=channel&q=${encodeURIComponent(parsed.value)}&maxResults=1&key=${apiKey}`;
-        const searchResp = await fetchWithTimeout(searchUrl, {}, "YouTube search API");
+        // Same one-shot tolerance as the channels-API lookup below: a thrown rejection
+        // is as transient as a 5xx, and this path previously had neither — leaving the
+        // most quota-expensive of the three call sites the least tolerant of a blip.
+        const fetchSearch = () => fetchWithTimeout(searchUrl, {}, "YouTube search API");
+        let searchResp;
+        try {
+            searchResp = await fetchSearch();
+        }
+        catch {
+            searchResp = undefined;
+        }
+        if (searchResp === undefined) {
+            searchResp = await fetchSearch();
+        }
+        else if (!searchResp.ok && searchResp.status >= 500) {
+            searchResp = await fetchSearch();
+        }
         if (!searchResp.ok)
             throw new Error(`YouTube search API error ${searchResp.status}: ${await searchResp.text()}`);
         const searchData = await parseJsonResponse(searchResp, "YouTube search API");
@@ -193,7 +209,25 @@ export async function getRecentVideoIds(uploadsPlaylistId, maxResults, apiKey) {
         `&playlistId=${encodeURIComponent(uploadsPlaylistId)}` +
         `&maxResults=${maxResults}` +
         `&key=${apiKey}`;
-    const resp = await fetchWithTimeout(apiUrl, {}, "YouTube playlistItems API");
+    // Same one-shot tolerance as resolveChannel's channels-API lookup and the Apify
+    // calls: a thrown rejection (connection reset, DNS blip) is as transient as a
+    // 5xx. This is the second external call every analyze_channel run makes, and
+    // previously it had no tolerance at all — a single blip failed the whole tool
+    // call immediately.
+    const fetchPlaylistItems = () => fetchWithTimeout(apiUrl, {}, "YouTube playlistItems API");
+    let resp;
+    try {
+        resp = await fetchPlaylistItems();
+    }
+    catch {
+        resp = undefined;
+    }
+    if (resp === undefined) {
+        resp = await fetchPlaylistItems();
+    }
+    else if (!resp.ok && resp.status >= 500) {
+        resp = await fetchPlaylistItems();
+    }
     if (!resp.ok)
         throw new Error(`YouTube playlistItems API error ${resp.status}: ${await resp.text()}`);
     const data = await parseJsonResponse(resp, "YouTube playlistItems API");

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "mcp-youtube-intelligence",
-  "version": "0.2.3",
+  "version": "0.2.4",
   "description": "MCP server for extracting structured intelligence from YouTube channels and videos — transcripts, topics, competitive signals",
   "mcpName": "io.github.dmitriusan/mcp-youtube-intelligence",
   "main": "build/index.js",