VideoDB Director
The VideoDB Director project is an MCP server designed to facilitate integrations with clients like Claude Desktop and Cursor. It offers simple command-line options for installation, configuration, and updating, making it accessible for a variety of systems and users.
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:
-
Open the
claude_desktop_config.json
fileIn MacOS/Linux:
code ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
In Windows:
code $env:AppData\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
-
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:
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Inside Cursor, go to Settings > Cursor Settings
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Click on MCP
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Click on Add new Global MCP Server
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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>