Boson Video

Boson-Video

Get the point of any video without watching all of it. Paste a YouTube link or drop a video file. Every line of the summary, the transcript and the screen text carries the second it came from, and questions are answered from the video and checked against it.

[A video read in Boson-Video: the player and the ribbon on the left, the terms explained on the right]

• The ribbon: the whole video on one strip (scenes, chapters, most replayed). Hover to see any second's frame and words.
• Summary: sections with their frames; every sentence timed and checked (✓ ? ✗).
• Transcript: the original with English beneath, technical terms explained, on-screen text read in.
• Ask: answers that cite their moments and show the frames, with background kept apart.
• Your own AI: the same document as an MCP plugin for Claude, Cursor, Codex and more.

Built for long talks, lectures and finance videos in a language you half know (Chinese and English today).

In your own AI

One line, nothing else to install (uv runs it):

claude mcp add boson-video -- uvx boson-video mcp

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json) or Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json):

{ "mcpServers": { "boson-video": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["boson-video", "mcp"] } } }

Codex (~/.codex/config.toml):

[mcp_servers.boson-video]command = "uvx"args = ["boson-video", "mcp"]

Then ask your AI about any YouTube link. It opens the video, reads the transcript, looks at the frames that matter at full resolution, searches, and checks its claims, citing every moment. No keys needed. Everything runs on your computer. Details: docs/plugin.md.

Run the page

uvx boson-video web             # http://127.0.0.1:8770; the first run prints your invite code

Keys make it fuller: INCEPTION_API_KEY (Mercury writes the summary, the English and the terms) and TYPESAFE_API_KEY (Jev checks every sentence and answers questions). Without them you still get the scenes, the transcript and search.

Tested videos

Measured, one run each unless a range is shown. Mac: M5 MacBook with Apple's transcriber. Windows: a 12-thread laptop with SenseVoice or Parakeet on the CPU. Full tables: docs/measured.md.

¹ Against human captions (scripts/accuracy.py); about half the English errors are filler words the captions leave out. Summary ✓: sentences confirmed against what was said (Jev and code).

Command line

uvx boson-video <link | id | file>        # build a video: scenes, words, screen text, summaryuvx boson-video ask <video> "question"    # the moment that answers ituvx boson-video models                    # fetch the local speech models now instead of on first use

From a clone: uv sync, then uv run boson-video …; uv run pytest runs the tests (offline).

More

• docs/workflow.md: how the workflow is designed: stages, the document, the ways in
• docs/how-it-works.md: the pipeline, what YouTube allows, limits
• docs/DIRECTION.md: what we're building, milestones, decisions
• docs/timeline-format.md: the document format, for other tools
• AGENTS.md: the guide for coding agents

MIT licensed. YouTube's terms don't allow automated access for products, so everything that touches YouTube runs on your own computer.