video-reader-mcp (s8zvp68zyn-ctrl/claude-video-reader) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 60 out of 100, grade C. It declares 4 tools. No publisher has claimed this listing.

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C
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60/100

video-reader-mcp

Enables Claude to read and watch online videos (YouTube, TikTok, Douyin, Facebook, Instagram) by pasting a link, providing summaries, transcripts, frame analysis, and metadata.

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// key findings
✅
No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation
Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.
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Open source with a license and README
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// tools this server exposes4 tools

These names and descriptions are the publisher's own, as the running server reported them. We print them as written. Our assessment is the findings above, not this list.

get_media_info

Get metadata for a video: title, uploader, duration, view/like/comment counts, upload date, description, hashtags, thumbnail and (optionally) the top comments.

get_transcript

Get the spoken-word transcript of a video.

get_frames

Sample frames from a video so Claude can SEE its visual content (scenes, on-screen text, products, people, etc.).

download_media

Download the raw video (or just the audio) to a local folder.

// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configVIDEO_READER_COOKIES_BROWSERAlternative: read cookies live from a browser (e.g. chrome). Often unreliable for background app processes — a file is more robust.
configVIDEO_READER_COOKIES_FILEThen point the server at the file via (see the
configVIDEO_READER_WHISPER_MODELWhisper size: tiny/base/small/medium/large-v3. Bigger = more accurate, slower.
// quality suggestions

Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

4/4 tools missing one or more hints — get_media_info (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_transcript (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_frames (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +1 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Destructive tools are labelled

1 tool perform destructive updates without destructiveHint — get_frames deletes at line 541 (shutil.rmtree(tmp, ignore_errors=True))

Add destructiveHint:true to any tool whose handler calls .delete(), .upsert(), .update(), unlink, rm, DELETE, DROP, REPLACE INTO, or any operation that overwrites existing data.

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code hash: 36e8c9d4b53d95ee194ce287002bbfc311622579c8a4708776ae278d712bb483
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