"How to Download Videos" matching MCP servers:

• Ytstream Download Youtube

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  Enables users to stream or download YouTube video information and direct links via the Ytstream API. It supports geographic optimization and language selection for better download speeds and audio availability.

  Last updated 2025-12-08

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• Paper Download MCP Server

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  An MCP server for downloading academic papers from multiple sources using intelligent routing and year-aware priority selection. It enables users to retrieve metadata and download single or batch PDFs by DOI or URL.

  Last updated 2026-03-17

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• local-video-scenes-mcp

  FlorinCiocirlan

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  Extracts timestamped screenshots from local videos, enabling Claude to produce visual walkthroughs without audio analysis or cloud processing.

  Last updated 2026-06-12

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• Instagram Download MCP Server

  KaiQin04

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  Enables AI assistants to download Instagram content including posts, videos, reels, stories, highlights, and profile pictures using Instaloader, with optional metadata and caption extraction.

  Last updated 2025-12-21

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• Qwen Video Understanding MCP

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  Enables AI agents to analyze videos and images using Qwen3-VL deployed on Modal, supporting hours-long videos with timestamp grounding, text extraction, video summarization, and Q\&A with 256K context window.

  Last updated 2025-12-27

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• Video to Text MCP Server

  strzhao

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  Enables downloading videos from platforms like YouTube and converting them to text using OpenAI Whisper and ffmpeg. It supports multiple output formats including TXT, JSON, SRT, and VTT for transcriptions.

  Last updated 2026-01-13

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• MCP-to-MCP Tic-Tac-Toe

  PsychoSmiley

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  Enables two LLMs to play Tic-Tac-Toe against each other autonomously using a shared tool and an SSE relay. The server facilitates agent-to-agent communication by holding tool responses until the opponent makes a move, managing the game state in real-time.

  Last updated 2026-03-17

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  Apache 2.0

• url-download-mcp

  dmitryglhf

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  A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants to download files from URLs to the local filesystem.

  Last updated 2025-10-24

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• How-To-Cook

  xiaobenyang-com

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  An AI recipe recommendation server based on the MCP protocol, providing functions such as recipe query, classification filtering, intelligent dietary planning, and daily menu recommendation.

  Last updated 2026-01-09

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  Apache 2.0

• Instagram Video Downloader MCP

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  A lightweight MCP service that enables programmatic downloading of Instagram videos to a specified local path with progress tracking.

  Last updated 2025-04-03

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• FAL Image/Video MCP Server

  RamboRogers

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  High-performance MCP server that enables generation of images and videos using FAL AI models with automatic downloads to your local machine.

  Last updated 2025-06-12

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• Social Download All In One

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  Enables downloading content from various social media platforms through a unified API. Provides a single tool to download media from multiple social networks using the Social Download All In One service.

  Last updated 2025-12-07

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• MCP Gemini Video Understanding

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  An MCP server that uses Google's Gemini API to analyze videos and convert them to text descriptions that Claude Code can understand and act upon.

  Last updated 2025-10-11

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• PDF to PNG Converter MCP

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  Enables Claude Code to convert PDF files to high-quality PNG images, download academic papers, and batch process PDFs with automatic folder organization.

  Last updated 2026-03-13

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• YouTube Downloader MCP Server

  SamuelBFavarin

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  Allows Claude or any MCP-compatible AI agent to download YouTube videos directly to your computer's Downloads folder.

  Last updated 2025-07-28

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• YouTube Video Downloader MCP

  JoseTapiaUex

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  An advanced MCP server that enables asynchronous downloading of YouTube videos and playlists with features for job tracking and library management. It utilizes yt-dlp and an SQLite database to store metadata, monitor download status, and manage content through Claude Desktop.

  Last updated 2025-09-23

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• ytmp3-mcp

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  A Model Context Protocol server that lets your AI download YouTube audio and search videos, powered by yt-dlp and ffmpeg, shipped as a Docker image.

  Last updated 2026-03-20

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• youtube-mcp-download

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  Provides tools to download YouTube videos and playlists asynchronously, with job tracking and metadata storage via a SQLite database, enabling library management through natural language.

  Last updated 2025-09-25

  GPL 3.0

• youtube-mcp

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  Enables AI agents to fetch transcripts, metadata, and download videos/audio from YouTube without API keys.

  Last updated 2026-05-23

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• sora-mcp-server

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  Enables AI assistants to generate, manage, and download AI-generated videos using OpenAI's Sora models, supporting text prompts, image-to-video, remixing, and more.

  Last updated 2026-01-12

  MIT