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VideoDB Director

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About VideoDB Director

VideoDB Director is an MCP server for video and media workloads, launched with uvx. It is aimed at developers who want LLMs or AI agents to use VideoDB capabilities from config-driven MCP clients.

Key features

  1. 01Launches the MCP server with uvx
  2. 02Requires a VideoDB API key
  3. 03Configuration for Claude Desktop, Cursor and Claude Code
  4. 04One-step install option via --install flag
  5. 05Supports running the latest package version

Use cases

  1. 01Adding video processing tools to Claude Desktop
  2. 02Giving Cursor an agent access to media operations
  3. 03Registering the server in Claude Code from the command line

MCP support

This is an MCP server. The README describes how to register it in MCP clients such as Claude Desktop, Cursor and Claude Code.

#video#media#cloud-storage

Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

mcp.json · Universal config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "modelcontextprotocol-video-db": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "videodb-director-mcp@latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "VIDEODB_API_KEY": "<VIDEODB_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}
Run commanduvx videodb-director-mcp@latest
Environment variables to set
VIDEODB_API_KEYSecret

Local servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.

Packages
pypivideodb-director-mcp@latest

Tools

4

Saved tool list · updated 3w ago

This tool takes no parameters.

Details

From the project README

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To add the MCP server in any config driven MCP Client, following is how the commands and arguments will look like

Install uv

We need to install uv first.

For macOS/Linux:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

For Windows:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

You can also visit the installation steps of uv for more details here

Run the MCP Server

You can run the MCP server using uvx using the following command

uvx videodb-director-mcp --api-key=VIDEODB_API_KEY

Add the VideoDB Director MCP Server in your favorite Client

Claude Desktop

To configure VideoDB Director MCP server in Claude, you can run the following command

uvx videodb-director-mcp --install=claude

You can manually configure the MCP Server by following these steps:

  1. Open the claude_desktop_config.json file

    In MacOS/Linux:

    code ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

    In Windows:

    code $env:AppData\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

  2. Add the VideoDB Director MCP Server inside the mcpServers key:

    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "videodb-director": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["videodb-director-mcp", "--api-key=<VIDEODB-API-KEY>"]
    }
  }
}
Cursor

To configure VideoDB Director MCP server in Cursor, you can run the following command

uvx videodb-director-mcp --install=cursor

You can manually configure the MCP Server by following these steps:

  1. Inside Cursor, go to Settings > Cursor Settings

  2. Click on MCP

  3. Click on Add new Global MCP Server

  4. Add the VideoDB Director MCP Server under the mcpServers key

    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "videodb-director": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["videodb-director-mcp", "--api-key=<VIDEODB-API-KEY>"]
    }
  }
}
Install in Claude and Cursor at the same time.

You can configure VideoDB Director MCP server in Claude and Cursor together, by running the following command

uvx videodb-director-mcp --install=all
Install for Claude Code
claude mcp add videodb-director uvx -- videodb-director-mcp --api-key=<VIDEODB_API_KEY>

Update VideoDB Director MCP package

To ensure you're using the latest version of the MCP server with uvx, start by clearing the cache:

uv cache clean

This command removes any outdated cached packages of videodb-director-mcp, allowing uvx to fetch the most recent version.

If you always want to use the latest version of the MCP server, update your command as follows:

uvx videodb-director-mcp@latest --api-key=<VIDEODB_API_KEY>

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