Get metadata of a YouTube video from its URL.
AI agents call get_yt_video_info to retrieve information from Whats Trending on Social Media without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool fetches and returns publicly available metadata about a YouTube video. It performs a query/read operation against YouTube's API or public data without creating, modifying, executing, deleting, or moving money.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves video metadata from YouTube by URL, described as 'Get metadata' which is a retrieval operation with no modification or execution capability.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_yt_video_info gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Whats Trending on Social Media, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_yt_video_info:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_yt_video_info": {}
}
}get_yt_video_info is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get metadata of a YouTube video from its URL. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Whats Trending on Social Media MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Whats Trending on Social Media MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_yt_video_info: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Whats Trending on Social Media. Nothing to install.
get_yt_video_info is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the get_yt_video_info rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for get_yt_video_info. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
get_yt_video_info is provided by the Whats Trending on Social Media MCP server (rugvedp/trends-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Whats Trending on Social Media, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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