# video-capture-mcp

> MCP server for autonomous macOS, iOS Simulator, and Android screen recording with frame extraction.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/video-capture-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/Corvus400/video-capture-mcp#readme
- repository: https://github.com/Corvus400/video-capture-mcp/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- version: 0.5.1
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: android, fastmcp, ios-simulator, macos, mcp, model-context-protocol, screen-recording
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:video-capture-mcp

### Description (declared)

# video-capture-mcp

> macOS, iOS Simulator, and Android screen recording plus key-frame extraction for MCP-aware AI agents.

[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/video-capture-mcp.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/video-capture-mcp/)
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[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](LICENSE)
[![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.11--3.12-blue.svg)](pyproject.toml)
[![macOS](https://img.shields.io/badge/platform-macOS-lightgrey.svg)](docs/permissions.md)

`video-capture-mcp` gives AI agents a stdio MCP server for recording UI motion while they operate apps, then extracting frames with ffmpeg. It is designed for bugs and requirements that screenshots miss, such as keyboards opening, hover/unhover states, and transient layout glitches.

## Features

- 3 OS recording backends in one MCP server: macOS, iOS Simulator, and Android.
- App-window-bounded macOS recording with activation and visible-region checks.
- Manual start/stop recording across macOS, iOS Simulator, and Android.
- Hover sequence API for UI demos that need mouse movement without clicks.
- `record_and_extract` for one-shot recording plus ffmpeg key-frame extraction.
- FastMCP `Image` inline responses for extracted frames.

## Requirements

- macOS 12 or newer.
- Python 3.11 or 3.12 for PyPI and `uvx` installs. Homebrew installs its own Python dependency.
- `uv` for the `uvx` install method (Option 1), which provides the `uvx` command. Option 2 (pip, standard CPython pip) and Option 3 (Homebrew) do not require uv. See the [Quickstart](#quickstart-claude-code) for the install command, or the [uv installation docs](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/).
- `ffmpeg` and `ffprobe`.
- Xcode Command Line Tools for iOS Simulator recording.
- Android platform-tools and `adb` for Android recording.

## In…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- infra.desktop (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/video-capture-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T15:23:31.928Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/video-capture-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/video-capture-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:video-capture-mcp