Bring Video Intelligence
to Windsurf
Learn how to connect Tubular to Windsurf and start using 12 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Tubular MCP Server?
Connect your Tubular Labs video intelligence account to any AI agent and simplify how you analyze digital video trends, creator performance, and cross-platform audience metrics through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Video Insights — Retrieve detailed performance metrics and trending data for individual videos or categories across social platforms.
- Creator Intelligence — Search for creators and fetch high-level performance summaries, trends, and audience ratings.
- Audience Demographics — Analyze audience breakdowns (age, gender, location) for specific videos or creators to refine your targeting.
- Sponsorship Tracking — List brand sponsors and monitor sponsored video campaigns to understand the competitive landscape.
- Audience Overlap — Analyze shared audience between two creators or content properties to identify partnership opportunities.
- Operational Monitoring — Check API health and rate limits to ensure your intelligence engine is always running.
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your Tubular API Key (found in your developer settings)
3. Start analyzing the video ecosystem from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
Who is this for?
- Media Agencies & Brands — quickly identify high-performing creators and analyze sponsored content trends via simple AI commands.
- Content Strategists — monitor video trends and cross-platform audience demographics directly from the workspace.
- Data Analysts — retrieve granular video metrics and creator audience ratings via the AI assistant.
Built-in capabilities (12)
Check API health status
Get current API rate limits
Analyze shared audience between entities
Get reach and engagement ratings
Get summary for a specific creator
Get trends for a specific creator
) for a specific video. Get audience demographics for a video
Get insights for a specific video
List trending videos
List sponsored video campaigns
List sponsors and brand partners
g., name or keywords). Search for creators
Why Windsurf?
Windsurf's Cascade agent chains multiple Tubular tool calls autonomously. query data, analyze results, and generate code in a single agentic session. Paste Vinkius Edge URL, reload, and all 12 tools are immediately available. Real-time tool feedback appears inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor.
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Windsurf's Cascade agent autonomously chains multiple tool calls in sequence, solving complex multi-step tasks without manual intervention
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Purpose-built for agentic workflows. Cascade understands context across your entire codebase and integrates MCP tools natively
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JSON-based configuration means zero code changes: paste a URL, reload, and all 12 tools are immediately available
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Real-time tool feedback is displayed inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor without switching contexts
Tubular in Windsurf
Tubular and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Tubular to Windsurf 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 Tubular in Windsurf
The Tubular 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 12 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Windsurf 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
Tubular for Windsurf
Every tool call from Windsurf to the Tubular MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can I see the audience demographics for a specific YouTube video?
Yes! Use the get_video_demographics tool and provide the Video ID. Your agent will retrieve the age and gender breakdowns for that specific piece of content.
How do I analyze the shared audience between two different creators?
Use the get_audience_overlap tool and provide the IDs for both entities. The agent will return the percentage and metrics of the audience that both creators share.
Is it possible to see which brands are sponsoring a specific creator?
Absolutely. Run the list_sponsored_campaigns query or search for sponsors using the list_sponsors tool to retrieve data on brand partnerships within the video ecosystem.
How does Windsurf discover MCP tools?
Windsurf reads the mcp_config.json file on startup and connects to each configured server via Streamable HTTP. Tools are listed in the MCP panel and available to Cascade automatically.
Can Cascade chain multiple MCP tool calls?
Yes. Cascade is an agentic system. it can plan and execute multi-step workflows, calling several tools in sequence to accomplish complex tasks without manual prompting between steps.
Does Windsurf support multiple MCP servers?
Yes. Add as many servers as needed in mcp_config.json. Each server's tools appear in the MCP panel and Cascade can use tools from different servers in a single flow.
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