Mcptube

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External ID

47754559

Source

HN

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Product

Mcptube

Website domain

github.com

Launched

April 13, 2026

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Upvotes

13

Upvotes percentile

0.6658097686375322

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Fetched at

Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Updated at

Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

I watch a lot of Stanford/Berkeley lectures and YouTube content on AI agents, MCP, and security. Got tired of scrubbing through hour-long videos to find one explanation. Built v1 of mcptube a few months ago. It performs transcript search and implements Q&A as an MCP server. It got traction (34 stars, my first open-source PR, some notable stargazers like CEO of Trail of Bits).But v1 re-searched raw chunks from scratch every query. So I rebuilt it.v2 (mcptube-vision) follows Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern. At ingest time, it extracts transcripts, detects scene changes with ffmpeg, describes key frames via a vision model, and writes structured wiki pages. Knowledge compounds across videos rather than being re-discovered. FTS5 + a two-stage agent (narrow then reason) for retrieval.MCPTube works both as CLI (BYOK) and MCP server. I tested MCPTube with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code Copilot, Cursor, and others. Zero API key needed server-side.Coming soon: I am also building SaaS platform. This platform supports playlist ingestion, team wikis, etc. I like to share early access signup: https://0xchamin.github.io/mcptube/Happy to discuss architecture tradeoffs — FTS5 vs vectors, file-based wiki vs DB, scene-change vs fixed-interval sampling. Give it a try via `pip install mcptube`. Also, please do star the repo if you enjoy my contribution (https://github.com/0xchamin/mcptube)

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