# videoscan-mcp

> MCP server for comprehensive video analysis — transcription, AI-powered visual frame analysis, and metadata 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/videoscan-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Lee
- version: 0.1.4
- protocols: mcp
- tags: ai, analysis, mcp, transcription, video, vision
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:videoscan-mcp

### Description (declared)

# VideoScan MCP

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for comprehensive video analysis — AI-powered transcription, visual frame analysis, and metadata extraction from 1000+ platforms.

## Features

- **Full video analysis** — combines transcription, frame extraction, and metadata in a single call
- **AI vision analysis** — describes frames and extracts on-screen text (OCR) using GPT-4o, Claude, or Gemini
- **Audio transcription** — Whisper-based transcription with timestamps and language detection
- **Auto-tuning** — automatically adjusts frame extraction density, interval, and detail level based on video duration
- **Smart frame extraction** — scene-change detection, interval sampling, or combined strategy
- **Deduplication** — perceptual hashing removes near-duplicate frames before analysis
- **Metadata extraction** — title, duration, chapters, tags, view count, and more without full download
- **Multi-provider** — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google vision providers with per-request override
- **Caching** — persistent cache for downloads, frames, and results to minimize repeat costs
- **1000+ platforms** — powered by yt-dlp (YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter/X, TikTok, and more)

## Installation

```bash
pip install videoscan-mcp
```

### System dependencies

VideoScan requires [ffmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/download.html) for video processing and [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) for downloading from URLs.

```bash
# macOS
brew install ffmpeg yt-dlp

# Ubuntu/Debian
apt install ffmpeg
pip install yt-dlp

# Windows — install ffmpeg from https://ffmpeg.org/download.html, then:
pip install yt-dlp
```

## Configuration

Copy `.env.example` to `.env` and fill in at minimum one API key:

```env
# Vision provider (frame analysis)
VISION_PROVIDER=openai          # openai | anthropic | google
VISION_MODEL=                   # optional — defaults: gpt-4o / claude-sonnet-4-20250514 / gemini-2.0-flash

# Transcription provider
TRANSCRIPTION_PROVIDER=openai   # openai only for now
…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- media.image-understanding (1, declared)
- media.speech-recognition (1, declared)
- content.social (0.791, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/videoscan-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T15:23:35.345Z)

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