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DimensionClaude Real Video MCP ServerLet any LLM actually watch a video locally — and search everything it has ever watchedHevy MCPManage your Hevy workout data from AI assistants via MCP.
FMRS61 / 100 · C77 / 100 · B
Reliability9 / 2012 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance13 / 2016 / 20
Documentation14 / 2018 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2015 / 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
  • Hevy PRO users who want AI assistants to directly access their workout data
  • People who prefer using MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, Codex for fitness tracking
  • Anyone needing summaries and insights from their training data
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
  • Users without a Hevy PRO subscription (API key required)
  • Users who want to use the server without an API key
  • Those needing delete workflows (Hevy API does not expose delete endpoints)
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 HEVY_API_KEY environment variable for Hevy API authentication
  • Can create, update, and replace workouts, routines, folders, templates, and body measurements via tools
  • Read operations can fetch workouts, routines, folders, templates, history, and user info
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
  • API key can be misused if leaked; do not expose in URLs, logs, or screenshots
  • Create operations may produce duplicates on retry; update operations replace existing records
  • The server sends data to the Hevy API and may send telemetry to external services unless disabled
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Claude Code, CursorClaude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Antigravity
Tools526