MandarinClips Authentic Chinese Cinema Corpus MCP Server

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MandarinClips Authentic Chinese Cinema Corpus is answering right now. Last checked 15 min ago. 107 installs a week from npm. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 25 Oct 2026.

Search 180,000+ authentic Chinese cinema clips, HSK grammar, and expressions for TCSL educators.

Installs per day peak 439 · avg 32

a month agotoday

Uptime history 15 days of history

15 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

663 ms

Response time

average over 24h

107

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MandarinClips Authentic Chinese Cinema Corpus every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 15 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport sse https://www.mandarinclips.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://www.mandarinclips.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://www.mandarinclips.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://www.mandarinclips.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "sse",
      "url": "https://www.mandarinclips.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, but it did not say what kind of credentials it expects.

Available tools 3

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

dialogue

search_dialogue_clips

Search authentic Chinese cinema dialogue clips by Chinese characters or pinyin. Returns 3-turn conversational context (Previous, Target, Next), standard pinyin, English subtext, and source movies/shows.

grammar

get_grammar_pattern

Look up core Chinese grammar structures, structural variations, visual slot formulas, and authentic cinema dialogue examples.

hsk

get_hsk_vocabulary

Retrieve official HSK 3.0 Chinese vocabulary details and cinema video examples by standard word slug or HSK level (1 to 7-9).

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.mandarinclips.com/mcp	sse	needs auth	678 ms	15 min ago

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MandarinClips Authentic Chinese Cinema Corpus — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can MandarinClips Authentic Chinese Cinema Corpus do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_grammar_pattern, get_hsk_vocabulary, search_dialogue_clips. 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 MandarinClips Authentic Chinese Cinema Corpus 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 663 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect MandarinClips Authentic Chinese Cinema Corpus?

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. You will need your own credentials: it refuses anonymous clients.

Does MandarinClips Authentic Chinese Cinema Corpus need an API key?

Yes. Every time we knock, MandarinClips Authentic Chinese Cinema Corpus answers with an authorization challenge instead of its tool list — that is how we know it is running and gated rather than broken. Bring your own credentials and it will talk.

How fast is MandarinClips Authentic Chinese Cinema Corpus?

It answers our handshake in 663 ms on average, which is faster than 14% 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 MandarinClips Authentic Chinese Cinema Corpus?

The npm package mandarinclips-mcp was installed 107 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is MandarinClips Authentic Chinese Cinema Corpus open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at mandarinclips.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.