panda-video-mcp

Panda Video MCP server

Connect Panda Video to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any other MCP client. Upload, organize and configure your videos, read their analytics, generate subtitles and Shorts — from the conversation.

The server is hosted by us: there is nothing to install and no code in this repository. Point your client at the URL below and sign in with your Panda Video account.

https://mcp.pandavideo.com/mcp

What you can do with it

Area	Examples
Videos	List and search videos, read one video, rename it, import a video from a URL
Folders and playlists	Create folders, move videos, build playlists
Analytics	Views, retention curve, top videos, account totals
Subtitles and thumbnails	Read subtitles, generate them with AI, add thumbnails
Player	Read and change the player and per-video configuration
Shorts	Import a video and list the Shorts cut from it

Video listings already carry the public embed URL (video_player) and the HLS URL (video_hls), so the assistant can hand you a link that plays.

Tools that change or remove something are marked destructiveHint: true, so your assistant asks before running them. Read-only tools are marked readOnlyHint: true.

Two endpoints

Endpoint	Tools	For
https://mcp.pandavideo.com/mcp	Full catalogue (177 tools)	Power users, Claude Code, Cursor, scripts
https://mcp.pandavideo.com/mcp/directory	29 core tools: videos, folders, playlists, analytics, subtitles, thumbnails, player, Shorts	Chat assistants (ChatGPT, Claude)

The directory endpoint leaves out credits, billing, users and sub-accounts.

Connecting

Claude

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste:

https://mcp.pandavideo.com/mcp/directory

Claude opens the Panda Video sign-in page, you approve the access, and the tools appear in the conversation. No API key to copy.

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Create (Developer Mode), same URL and OAuth as the authentication. Same sign-in flow.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http panda-video https://mcp.pandavideo.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: panda-YOUR_API_KEY"

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "panda-video": {
      "url": "https://mcp.pandavideo.com/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "panda-YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Anything else

The server speaks Streamable HTTP (stateless) at /mcp and /mcp/directory. Two ways to authenticate:

OAuth 2.1 — recommended, and what the chat clients above use. Discovery follows the specs, so a compliant client needs nothing but the URL:

Document	URL
Protected resource metadata (RFC 9728)	https://mcp.pandavideo.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
Authorization server metadata (RFC 8414)	https://mcp.pandavideo.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server

Dynamic client registration (RFC 7591) and PKCE with S256 are supported, with public clients (token_endpoint_auth_method: none). Scopes are videos:read (read-only tools) and videos:write.

API key — for scripts and local clients. Copy it in the Panda Video dashboard under Settings → Advanced → API Key and send it as is in the Authorization header. Treat it like a password:

curl -X POST https://mcp.pandavideo.com/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: panda-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"panda_list_videos","arguments":{"limit":5}}}'

initialize and tools/list answer without credentials, so a directory can read the catalogue before anyone signs in. Every call that touches your account requires authentication; without it the server answers 401 with a WWW-Authenticate header pointing to the OAuth metadata.

Requests are limited to 60 per minute per account.

Accounts

You need a Panda Video account. See pandavideo.com for the plans.

Policies and support

• Privacy: https://www.pandavideo.com/our-terms/privacy
• Terms: https://www.pandavideo.com/our-terms/terms
• Help center: https://help.pandavideo.com
• API reference: https://docs.pandavideo.com/reference/mcp
• Something wrong with this server: open an issue here

Why this repository has no code

Directories ask for a repository URL, and this is it. The server runs on our infrastructure, so listing it does not require shipping the implementation — what a client needs is the URL above and the discovery documents, both public. This repository holds the registry descriptor (server.json), the logos and these instructions.

Panda Video is a product of PANDA VIDEOS LTDA.