One video streaming API for resumable upload, parallel transcoding, Widevine and FairPlay DRM, live streaming, CDN delivery and analytics. Your AI agent manages videos, live events and analytics through the MCP server, and your apps play them with cross-platform and native SDKs.
Kinescope MCP Server, now in public beta, lets Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code and other MCP clients work with your workspace in plain language. It uses your API token and your account’s access rights, and delete operations are turned off.
{
"mcpServers": {
"Kinescope MCP": {
"type": "streamable-http",
"url": "https://api.kinescope.io/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"
}
}
}
}npx -y @smithery/cli@latest mcp add kinescope/kinescope-mcp --client claudeThen ask
Kinescope runs its own video CDN — owned capacity, not resold — with points of presence across Latin America, the United States, Europe and the CIS. Live signal comes in over RTMP, RTMPS and SRT at ingest servers on four continents.
North America Brazil Europe CIS Asia Three snippets from the docs: the upload and transcoding API takes the file, an iframe plays it, and your backend decides who watches. Swap in your API token and IDs.
Import a file by URL, as here, send it in a single request, or create an upload link for client apps. Large files go in chunks over TUS.
curl -X POST https://uploader.kinescope.io/v2/video \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $KINESCOPE_API_TOKEN" \
-H "X-Parent-ID: $PARENT_ID" \
-H "X-Video-Title: Lesson 1" \
-H "X-Video-URL: https://example.com/lesson-1.mp4"Kinescope encodes every upload into adaptive renditions up to 4K. Paste the iframe, or drive the player from JavaScript with the IFrame Player API.
<iframe src="https://kinescope.io/embed/VIDEO_ID"
allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; encrypted-media;"
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen
width="560" height="315"></iframe>Turn on DRM and point Kinescope at your authorization backend. Before it issues a decryption key, it asks your server, and your 200 or 403 decides who watches.
curl -X PUT https://api.kinescope.io/v1/drm/auth \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $KINESCOPE_API_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://api.example.com/drm/authorize"}'
# The viewer comes from the embed: ?drmauthtoken=USER_JWT
# Answer 200 to allow the play or 403 to deny it.A real Kinescope player. Each button calls an IFrame Player API method, the panel shows the code that ran, and the log shows the events the player sends back.
import { load } from '@kinescope/player-iframe-api-loader'; const factory = await load(); const player = await factory.create('player', { url: 'https://kinescope.io/56Jg27MqvvttAwHcrCzEA4', size: { width: '100%', height: '100%' }, }); player.on(player.Events.TimeUpdate, ({ data }) => { console.log(data.currentTime, data.percent); });// Click a button on the left to run a call
Every method and event is in the IFrame Player API docs.
Eight open-source SDKs for the same player, in the order developers download them. Each install line comes from the package README.
npm install @kinescope/player-iframe-api-loader npm install @kinescope/react-kinescope-player flutter pub add flutter_kinescope_sdk npm install @kinescope/vue-kinescope-player pod 'KinescopeSDK' or Swift Package Manager implementation 'io.kinescope:kotlin-kinescope-player:<version>' Maven Central yarn add @kinescope/react-native-kinescope-video plus the peer dependencies listed in the README npm install @kinescope/angular-kinescope-player The endpoints, events and tools behind the player. Each card links to its part of the docs.
Upload videos, organise projects and folders and pull analytics over JSON at api.kinescope.io/v1 with an API token. Each upload is encoded into adaptive renditions up to 4K, so there is no separate video encoding API to wire up.
A live video streaming API: create and schedule events and restreams, push RTMP or SRT from OBS or any encoder and keep an automatic recording. The web player and the iOS and Android SDKs play the stream live.
Widevine and FairPlay DRM on paid plans, domain restrictions, signed links with an expiry and your own backend approving each play.
Seven events posted as JSON: media.update.status for processing and six for the live-stream lifecycle.
Playback totals, a timeline and top lists by country, city, device, OS and browser from /v1/analytics/overview, for the workspace or one video, plus CDN, encoding and storage usage from /v1/billing/usage.
Generate subtitles in the video’s language with one API call, and AI chapters and a short description from the dashboard. Through the MCP server, an agent can read the subtitle text and write chapters back.
No separate developer plan: the full API comes with paid plans from €10/month, with storage and CDN delivery from €0.03 per GB, processing €0.01 per minute. Pricing and calculator
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https://api.kinescope.io/mcp and works with Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Qwen3 and other MCP clients. With your API token, your agent can search and edit videos, organise projects and playlists, pull analytics and manage live streams in plain language; delete operations are disabled. Setup is in the MCP docs.@kinescope/player-iframe-api-loader, create the player, then call methods such as play(), seekTo(), setPlaybackRate(), setVideoQuality() and setOptions() and subscribe to events like Playing, TimeUpdate and Ended. Try it in the live demo on this page or read the API docs.media.update.status when a video changes processing status, and six live-stream events — created, connected, disconnected, finished, cancelled and enabled. Full list in the docs.Free to start, then from €10/month for the full API. No credit card required.
