Zipir MCP Server

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answering

Zipir is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

Turn a document into a source-cited video lesson from any MCP client.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 45 hours of history · worst hour 75%

45 hours agonow

98.9%

Uptime 24h

90 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

178 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Zipir does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 99.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add zipir --transport http https://api.zipirapp.com/mcp

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

https://api.zipirapp.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.zipir]
url = "https://api.zipirapp.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zipir": {
      "url": "https://api.zipirapp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "zipir": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.zipirapp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

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

lesson

create_lesson

Create a video lesson from a document (use when someone wants a document turned into a video) Use when the user brings a document, PDF, deck, page or text and wants a video, a lesson, an explainer or a summary video of it. Send the file as multipart, or `text`/`url` as JSON. Returns a lesson id immediately; nothing renders until approve_lesson, so creating costs no minutes. Follow it with get_lesson until the storyboard needs approval. With an Idempotency-Key the same request inside 24h returns the same lesson (same key, different body is 409). API documentation: https://zipirapp.com/en/api/

get_lesson

Check a lesson's status (poll this after create_lesson and after approve_lesson) Use whenever you need to know where a lesson stands: after creating it, while it renders, or before downloading. `status` is the machine state (queued | rendering | done | failed), `phase` is finer, `needs_approval` is true while the storyboard waits for a human, and `next` says which call to make next. Costs no minutes.

approve

approve_lesson

Approve the storyboard and start rendering (the only call that spends the account's minutes) Use only after the user has seen the storyboard and agreed: this is the panel's approval button. The minutes for the lesson are held at this call and the render is queued. Do not approve on the user's behalf without their go-ahead. Check get_usage first if the balance may be tight.

download

get_download

Get a signed download link for the finished video (use when the video is ready and the user wants the file) Use once get_lesson says the video is done. Returns a URL (valid 900 s) to the MP4, not the file itself: hand the link to the user or fetch it. `variant=720` is the light copy every plan gets, `variant=1080` is full quality and needs a paid plan.

formats

list_formats

List video formats (call this before create_lesson when the user names a style) Use when someone asks which styles exist, or before create_lesson if they said a style ("short", "explainer", "vertical"). Returns format ids to pass to create_lesson; never hard-code an id, read it here. No minutes are spent.

lessons

list_lessons

List this account's recent lessons (use when someone asks "my videos", "what did I make", or wants to continue an earlier one) Use when the user refers to their own earlier work: their videos, the lesson they started yesterday, the one waiting for approval. Returns the newest lessons with id, title, status, minutes and a link to open each. Read-only and free. Pass `status` to narrow (queued | rendering | done | failed) and `limit` (default 20, max 50).

usage

get_usage

Check remaining video minutes before spending any (call this before approve_lesson if unsure) Use when the user asks how much is left, or before approve_lesson when the balance may be tight. The limit is the account's own entitlement (optionally narrowed per key), never a second rule; `used` counts the minutes of finished videos in the current period.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.zipirapp.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	153 ms	3 min ago

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Zipir — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Zipir do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: approve_lesson, create_lesson, get_download, get_lesson, get_usage, list_formats and 1 more. 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 Zipir working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 90 of 91 checks got a reply (98.9%), average response time 178 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is Zipir still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect Zipir?

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 Zipir need an API key?

No. Zipir completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Zipir?

It answers our handshake in 178 ms on average, which is faster than 76% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.