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Yueying – Let AI watch videos MCP Server

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Yueying – Let AI watch videos runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 13 Sep 2026.

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

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pypi · yueying
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13 Sep 2026
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What the code does

We read the source, 7 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

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.

        p = subprocess.run(cmd, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
        path = os.path.join(out_dir, f"f{i:03d}_{slug_time(t)}.jpg")
    env = dict(os.environ)

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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.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add yueying -- uvx yueying
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yueying": {
      "args": [
        "yueying"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.yueying]
command = "uvx"
args = ["yueying"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yueying": {
      "args": [
        "yueying"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yueying": {
      "args": [
        "yueying"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: PYTHONUTF8 (Set to 1 (UTF-8 I/O on Windows)), YUEYING_OUT_DIR (Folder for transcripts/keyframes (default ~/yueying_out)), YUEYING_MODEL (Default Whisper model: auto|tiny|base|small|medium|large-v3|large-v3-turbo), YUEYING_DEVICE (auto | cuda | cpu). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Yueying – Let AI watch videos — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Yueying – Let AI watch videos?
Yueying – Let AI watch videos runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package yueying.
How do I connect Yueying – Let AI watch videos?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls yueying straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
Is Yueying – Let AI watch videos open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 9 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.