VideoDB Director

# VideoDB MCP Server [Source Link](https://docs.videodb.io/videodb-mcp-server-109) VideoDB Documentation Pages * Welcome to VideoDB Docs * Quick Start Guide * Video Indexing Guide * Semantic Search * How Accurate is Your Search? * Collections * Public Collections * Callback Details * Ref: Subtitle Styles * Language Support * Guide: Subtitles * Visual Search and Indexing * Scene Extraction Algorithms * Custom Annotations * Scene-Level Metadata: Smarter Video Search & Retrieval * Advanced Visual Search Pipelines * Playground for Scene Extractions * Deep Dive into Prompt Engineering : Mastering Video Scene Indexing * Multimodal Search * Multimodal Search: Quickstart * Conference Slide Scraper with VideoDB * Real‑Time Video Pipeline * Meeting Recording Agent Quickstart * How VideoDB Solves Complex Visual Analysis Tasks * Generative Media Quickstart * Generative Media Pricing * Dynamic Video Streams * Ref: TextAsset * Guide : TextAsset * VideoDB MCP Server * Transcoding Quickstart * Director - Video Agent Framework * Agent Creation Playbook * How I Built a CRM-integrated Sales Assistant Agent in 1 Hour * Make Your Video Sound Studio Quality with Voice Cloning * Setup Director Locally * Open Source Tools * LlamaIndex VideoDB Retriever * PromptClip: Use Power of LLM to Create Clips * StreamRAG: Connect ChatGPT to VideoDB * Examples and Tutorials * Dubbing - Replace Soundtrack with New Audio * Beep curse words in real-time * Remove Unwanted Content from videos * Instant Clips of Your Favorite Characters * Insert Dynamic Ads in real-time * Adding Brand Elements with VideoDB * Revolutionize Video Editing with VideoDb: Effortless Ad Placement and Seamless Video Integration * Eleven Labs x VideoDB: Adding AI Generated voiceovers to silent footage * Elevating Trailers with Automated Narration * Add Intro/Outro to Videos * Enhancing Video Captions with VideoDB Subtitle Styling * Audio overlay + Video + Timeline * Building Dynamic Video Streams with VideoDB: Integrating Custom Data and APIs * Adding AI Generated Voiceovers with VideoDB and LOVO * AI Generated Ad Films for Product Videography: Wellsaid, Open AI & VideoDB * Fun with Keyword Search * AWS Rekognition and VideoDB - Intelligent Video Clips * AWS Rekognition and VideoDB - Effortlessly Remove Inappropriate Content from Video * Overlay a Word-Counter on Video Stream * Generate Automated Video Outputs with Text Prompts \| DALL-E + ElevenLabs + OpenAI + VideoDB * Edge of Knowledge * Building Intelligent Machines * Part 1 - Define Intelligence * Part 2 - Observe and Respond * Part 3 - Training a Model * Society of Machines * Society of Machines * Autonomy - Do we have the choice? * Emergence - An Intelligence of the collective * Drafts * From Language Models to World Models: The Next Frontier in AI * The Future Series * Building World's First Video Database * Multimedia: From MP3/MP4 to the Future with VideoDB * Introducing VideoDB: The Pinnacle of Synchronized Video Streaming for the Modern Web * Dynamic Video Streams * Why do we need a Video Database Now? * What's a Video Database ? * Enhancing AI-Driven Multimedia Applications * Misalignment of Today's Web * Beyond Traditional Video Infrastructure * Research Grants * Team * Internship: Build the Future of AI-Powered Video Infrastructure * Ashutosh Trivedi * Playlists * Talks - Solving Logical Puzzles with Natural Language Processing - PyCon India 2015 * Ashish * Shivani Desai * Gaurav Tyagi * Rohit Garg * Customer Love * Temp Doc # VideoDB MCP Server The VideoDB MCP Server can be installed and used in multiple ways. Follow the steps below to set it up. ## Prerequisite: Ensure Python 3.12 or Later is Installed Before installing the VideoDB MCP Server, verify that Python 3.12 or later is installed on your system. Check Python version: `python --version` If the version is below 3.12, update Python from the [official website](https://www.python.org/downloads/). # Install and Configure VideoDB MCP Server > simplest method using uvx ## 1\. Install uv macOS: `brew install uv` 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 visit the complete installation steps for uv [here](https://astral.sh/uv). ## 2\. Automatic Installation for Clients To automatically add the MCP Server to Claude, Cursor and Claude Code: Install for Claude only `uvx videodb-director-mcp --install=claude` Install for Cursor only `uvx videodb-director-mcp --install=cursor` Install for both Claude and Cursor `uvx videodb-director-mcp --install=all` Install for Claude Code `claude mcp add videodb-director uvx -- videodb-director-mcp --api-key=<VIDEODB_API_KEY>` ## 3\. Update VideoDB 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>` This ensures that uvx pulls the latest release every time you run it. # Advanced Methods ## 1\. Install the VideoDB MCP Server ### a. Using pipx We need to install pipx first. For macOS: `brew install pipx` `pipx ensurepath` For Windows: `python -m pip install--user pipx` `python -m pipx ensurepath` You can now run the MCP Server using: `pipx run videodb-director-mcp --api-key=VIDEODB_API_KEY` ### b. Install Using pip Install the package using pip: `pip install videodb-director-mcp` The MCP server can now be started with the following command: `videodb-director-mcp --api-key=VIDEODB_API_KEY` ## 2\. Configuring the MCP Server in Clients ### Claude Desktop a. Open Configuration File MacOS/Linux: `code ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json` Windows: `code $env:AppData\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json` b. Modify Configuration Using pipx: ```json { "mcpServers":{ "videodb-director":{ "command":"pipx", "args":["run","videodb-director-mcp","--api-key=<VIDEODB-API-KEY>"] } } } ``` Using package installed via pip : ```json { "mcpServers":{ "videodb-director":{ "command":"videodb-director-mcp", "args":["--api-key=<VIDEODB-API-KEY>"] } } } ``` ### Cursor Editor a. Open MCP Settings Navigate to Settings > Cursor Settings Click on MCP Click on Add new Global MCP Server b. Add Configuration Using pipx: ```json { "mcpServers":{ "videodb-director":{ "command":"pipx", "args":["run","videodb-director-mcp","--api-key=<VIDEODB-API-KEY>"] } } } ``` Using package installed via pip : ```json { "mcpServers":{ "videodb-director":{ "command":"videodb-director-mcp", "args":["--api-key=<VIDEODB-API-KEY>"] } } } ``` ### Claude Code a. Add configuration To configure VideoDB Director MCP for Claude code you can run the following command Using pipx: `claude mcp add videodb-director pipx -- run videodb-director-mcp --api-key=<VIDEODB_API_KEY>` Using package installed via pip : `claude mcp add videodb-director videodb-director-mcp -- --api-key=<VIDEODB_API_KEY>` b. Verify configuration You can verify if the MCP Server has been added correctly or not by simply running the following command: `claude mcp list` ## 3\. Update the VideoDB Director MCP Package To ensure you're using the latest version of a package installed via pipx or pip, run: `pip install--upgrade videodb-director-mcp` This will upgrade the package to its latest available version. ---