Bring Video Hosting
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect api.video to Claude Desktop and start using 9 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the api.video MCP Server?
Connect your api.video account to any AI agent and take full control of your professional video hosting infrastructure and automated media workflows through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Video Orchestration — List and manage your entire high-fidelity video library programmatically, or create new video objects to prepare for uploads in real-time
- Asset Intelligence — Retrieve detailed high-fidelity status and direct asset URLs for players, thumbnails, and navigation markers (chapters) directly through your agent
- Deep Analytics Tracking — Monitor performance metrics like total plays and impressions using high-fidelity aggregation tools to coordinate your content strategy
- Multilingual Captions — Access and manage subtitle tracks across multiple languages to maintain a perfectly coordinated global viewer experience
- Infrastructure Monitoring — Access your directory of custom player themes and store-level metadata directly through your agent for instant operational reporting
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Retrieve your Production API Key from your api.video dashboard (API Keys section)
3. Start orchestrating your video content and performance from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
No more manual toggling between video dashboards or digging through complex embed settings. Your AI acts as your dedicated video engineer and media architect.
Who is this for?
- Content Creators — instantly retrieve player links and update video metadata using natural language commands
- Product Managers — monitor video performance and track feature walkthrough engagement without leaving your creative workspace
- Developers — integrate high-speed cloud-based video management into custom application workflows through simple AI queries
Built-in capabilities (9)
Set title and description here. Initialize a new video
video. Permanently delete a video
Retrieve performance metrics
Get metadata for a video
List custom player themes
List captions for a video
List chapters for a video
Supports filtering by title or tags. List your api.video videos
Modify video metadata
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect api.video to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 9 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
api.video in Claude Desktop
api.video and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect api.video to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for api.video in Claude Desktop
The api.video MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 9 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
api.video for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the api.video MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find my api.video API Key?
Log in to your account, navigate to the API Keys section in your dashboard, and copy your unique Production API Key.
Can I get a direct player link via AI?
Yes! The get_video_details tool retrieves high-fidelity asset URLs including the player, mp4 source, and thumbnails for any specific video.
How do I check video analytics?
Use the get_video_analytics tool and specify the metric (e.g., 'play') and aggregation (e.g., 'total') to retrieve real-time performance data.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.