mcpbeat Sign in

Squish MCP Server

by getsquish Your server? Claim it
answering

Squish is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. 58 installs a week from npm. It exposes 1 tools. Last commit 24 Aug 2026.

Give AI random access to video: timestamped contact sheets + zoom into any start/end range.

Installs per day peak 28 · avg 7 · -36% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 95%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
609 ms
Response time
average over 24h
58
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 31 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

31 Oct a tool description was rewritten squish_video

What the code does

We read the source, 2 d ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 995398eba69f

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Runs an external command src/ffmpeg.ts:10 
    execFile(file, args, { encoding: 'buffer', maxBuffer: 64 * 1024 * 1024 }, (error, stdout) => {

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add squish --transport http https://api.getsquish.app/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://api.getsquish.app/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.squish]
url = "https://api.getsquish.app/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "squish": {
      "url": "https://api.getsquish.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "squish": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.getsquish.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 1

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

squish
squish_video
Turn a video at a public URL into timestamped contact-sheet JPEG(s) that a vision model can read: frames sampled evenly across the clip, laid out as a grid, each cell stamped with its timecode. Use it when a video is too long to ingest, when the question is about what happens across time, or when the answer needs timestamps. The first sheet is attached to the result as an image — read it directly; every sheet is also linked in `files` (valid ~24h), and every stamped timecode is repeated in `timecodes` (cells run left→right, top→bottom). Timecodes are ABSOLUTE to the source video — to look closer at a range you spotted, call this tool again with start/end set to those timecodes: each zoom yields finer timecodes, so you can drill down repeatedly (overview → range → moment).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.getsquish.app/mcp streamable-http answering 582 ms 11 min ago

Alternatives to Squish

same job, measured the same way
ScribeToAny
by scribetoany

Transcribe audio and video into timestamped transcripts, and search and read your transcripts.

answering
FramesCLI
by wraelen

Make videos AI-readable. Extract timestamped frames and transcripts from any video for AI agents.

local only
Agentic Video
by tlq5l

Local video tools for AI agents: contact sheets, transcripts, cuts, loudness and sync checks.

1 107 installs/wk local only
Audio & Video to Text (SRT, VTT, RAG chunks)
by brunenjere

Transcribes audio and video files to text, SRT, VTT and timestamped chunks for RAG.

answering
Yueying – Let AI watch videos
by vsh5dvsch7-png

Local videos or YouTube/Bilibili URLs -> timestamped transcript, keyframes, contact sheets. Offline.

175 installs/wk local only
Clipbait
by spiritscripts

Turn any video into viral clips and clip live streams, from any AI agent.

52 installs/wk local only
Scribefy
by mkirovbg

Search YouTube, get video metadata, and extract timestamped transcripts for AI workflows.

67 installs/wk local only
Watch Video
by marwanm7moud

Let an AI watch a video: timestamped transcript, scene-selected keyframes and exact frames. Local.

316 installs/wk local only

Squish — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Squish do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: squish_video. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Squish working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 609 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Squish?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Squish need an API key?
No. Squish completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Squish?
It answers our handshake in 609 ms on average, which is faster than 17% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Squish?
The npm package @getsquish/squish was installed 58 times in the last week. Week over week that is -36%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Squish open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 2 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at api.getsquish.app, which runs on its operator's own terms.