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DimensionClaude Real Video MCP ServerLet any LLM actually watch a video locally — and search everything it has ever watchedFirecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS61 / 100 · C75 / 100 · B
Reliability9 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance13 / 2016 / 20
Documentation14 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Users who want video preprocessing to stay local and only the chosen material to reach a cloud LLM
  • Developers using MCP-capable coding agents such as Claude Code or Cursor who need video evidence
  • Video analysis where scene-aware extraction beats fixed-interval sampling
  • Scenarios needing clean, structured web context fed to an AI assistant
  • Users already on the Firecrawl platform who want to call its scraping capability directly via MCP
Not for
  • Users expecting a hosted server with no local ffmpeg install
  • Enterprise procurement needing official Anthropic support or an SLA
  • Users who just want a one-off answer about one clip and do not care about local processing or reproducibility
  • Simple static-page scraping where you don't want to depend on a third-party API and incur call costs
  • Sites that explicitly disallow automated access (robots.txt)
Required permissions
  • Read video and subtitle files at any path you point it at on the local machine
  • Network access via yt-dlp to fetch video URLs
  • Write to the output directory (default crv-out) and the MCP analysis cache at ~/.cache/crv-mcp
  • Maintain a local SQLite memory index at ~/.crv/memory.db (overridable with CRV_MEMORY_DB, disable with CRV_NO_MEMORY=1)
  • Optional: read browser cookies to reach login-gated content in your own account
  • Requires a Firecrawl API key to call; cost and quota are governed by the Firecrawl account
  • firecrawl_agent/firecrawl_interact perform automated browser interaction, which may trigger login or form-submission flows on the target site
Risks and side effects
  • Processing copyrighted or unauthorized content may violate the source site's terms; --cookies is meant for your own authorized access only
  • Transcripts and the memory index persist speech and on-screen text on local disk, which matters on shared machines
  • Whisper can invent captions on music-only or silent audio (installing the [fast] extra adds faster-whisper with Silero VAD to avoid this)
  • Once you paste extracted frames or the transcript into a cloud LLM, that data is handled by that provider
  • crv Pro is a paid add-on; the free edition lacks Pro features such as camera motion and voice emotion
  • Bulk crawl/map tools can generate significant request volume against a target site — respect the site's rate limits and terms of service
  • firecrawl_agent's interactive action chain is longer — define task boundaries clearly before running it to avoid accidentally triggering actions on a sensitive site
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Claude Code, CursorClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp
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