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When you connect to the hosted server at https://mcp.videodb.io/mcp, your client asks you to log in to your VideoDB account once, in a browser tab.

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How Connecting Works

1

You add the server to your client

See Connect the MCP Server.
2

A VideoDB page opens

It lists what the client will be able to do with your account.
3

You click Authorize

You’re taken back to your client, connected.
Your client handles the rest. It holds a token from then on and sends it with every tool call.

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What the Connector Collects

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Media and Derived Data

Videos you upload, and the transcripts, indexes and streams built from them, live in your VideoDB account under VideoDB’s retention terms: stored until you delete them, with no automatic expiry. Delete them with delete_video, delete_index, delete_collection, or remove_video_storage. See Security & Privacy for retention patterns across the rest of VideoDB.

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Next Steps

MCP Server

What the hosted server is and what it covers

Connect

Setup for Claude, Claude Code, Cursor and other clients

Tool Reference

Every tool, grouped by toolset