deAPI Mcp Server
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# deAPI MCP Server Production-ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the [deAPI](https://deapi.ai) REST API. This server exposes all deAPI AI capabilities as MCP tools, enabling LLMs to perform audio transcription, image generation, OCR, video generation, text-to-speech, and more. > **deAPI v2** — this server…
Details
- Transport
- SSE
- License
- MIT
Explore
- Complete API Coverage: 39 deAPI tools exposed via MCP, covering every v2 client endpoint
- Smart Adaptive Polling: Automatically polls async jobs with optimized intervals based on job type
- OAuth 2.0 Authentication: Secure token exchange via OAuth Authorization Code flow with PKCE
- Error Recovery: Automatic retry logic with exponential backoff
- Progress Reporting: Real-time progress updates to MCP clients
- Type Safety: Full Pydantic schema validation
- Production Ready: Built with FastMCP framework for reliability
Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
-
Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
deAPI Mcp ServerCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
For running the MCP server:
- Python 3.10 or higher
- uv, pip, or conda for package management
For a deAPI account:
- Sign up at deapi.ai and get your API token
conda create -n mcp-server-deapi python=3.11
conda activate mcp-server-deapi
pip install -e .
3. (Optional) Create a .env file for configuration:
bash
The server can run in two modes:
Local Mode (for use with Claude Desktop on the same machine):
python -m src.server_remote
The server will start on http://localhost:8000 by default.
Remote Mode (for deployment to a remote server):
Best for: Server running on the same machine, quick setup without OAuth.
Edit your Claude Desktop config file:
- macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
- Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
json{
"mcpServers": {
"deapi": {
"url": "http://localhost:8000/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_DEAPI_TOKEN"
}
}
}
}
Replace YOUR_DEAPI_TOKEN with your actual deAPI token. Save the file and restart Claude Desktop.
DEAPI_API_BASE_URL=https://api.deapi.ai
DEAPI_API_VERSION=v2
DEAPI_POLLING_AUDIO__INITIAL_DELAY=1.0
DEAPI_POLLING_AUDIO__MAX_DELAY=5.0
DEAPI_POLLING_AUDIO__TIMEOUT=300.0
Install dev dependencies:
uv pip install -e ".[dev]"
Run tests:
pytest
Run smoke tests (requires a running server):
python tests/smoke_test.py
For production environments or when you want to host the MCP server on a remote machine, use the remote server mode.
1. Build and run with Docker:
docker build -t mcp-server-deapi .
docker run -d -p 8000:8000 --name mcp-server-deapi mcp-server-deapi
2. Or use Docker Compose:
docker-compose up -d
3. Configure Claude Desktop to connect:
{
"mcpServers": {
"deapi": {
"url": "http://your-server-ip:8000/mcp"
}
}
}
1. On your remote server:
git clone https://github.com/deapi-ai/mcp-server-deapi.git
cd mcp-server-deapi
pip install -e .
python -m src.server_remote
2. For production with systemd:
``bash
- Railway.app: Push to GitHub, connect repository, deploy automatically
- Fly.io: fly launch && fly deployheroku create && git push heroku main`
- Heroku:
- DigitalOcean: Use App Platform or Droplets with Docker
- AWS/GCP/Azure: Deploy with container services (ECS, Cloud Run, Container Instances)
For detailed deployment instructions, security considerations, monitoring, and troubleshooting, see DEPLOYMENT.md.
audio_transcription
Transcribe audio files to text using Whisper models
audio_transcription_price
Calculate transcription cost
text_to_audio
Convert text to natural speech (TTS)
text_to_audio_price
Calculate TTS cost
text_to_music
Generate music from text description and lyrics
text_to_music_price
Calculate music generation cost
audio_url_transcription
Transcribe audio from URLs of completed Twitter Spaces
audio_url_transcription_price
Calculate Twitter Spaces transcription cost
video_file_transcription
Transcribe video files to text
video_file_transcription_price
Calculate video file transcription cost
video_url_transcription
Transcribe videos from URLs (YouTube, Twitter/X, Twitch, Kick)
video_url_transcription_price
Calculate video URL transcription cost
text_to_image
Generate images from text prompts
image_to_image
Transform images with text guidance
image_to_text
Extract text from images (OCR)
image_remove_background
Remove background from images
image_upscale
Upscale images to higher resolution
text_to_image_price
Calculate image generation cost
image_to_image_price
Calculate image transformation cost
image_to_text_price
Calculate OCR cost
image_remove_background_price
Calculate background removal cost
image_upscale_price
Calculate upscaling cost
text_to_video
Generate videos from text prompts
image_to_video
Animate static images into videos
audio_to_video
Generate video conditioned on audio content
video_replace
Replace a person in a video with a character from a reference image
video_remove_background
Remove the background from a video
video_upscale
Upscale a video to higher resolution
text_to_video_price
Calculate text-to-video cost
image_to_video_price
Calculate image-to-video cost
audio_to_video_price
Calculate audio-to-video cost
video_replace_price
Calculate video character replacement cost
video_remove_background_price
Calculate video background-removal cost
video_upscale_price
Calculate video upscaling cost
text_to_embedding
Generate text embeddings for semantic search
text_to_embedding_price
Calculate embedding cost
prompt_booster
Enhance a prompt for any deAPI inference type using AI guides (synchronous, returns refined prompt directly)
prompt_booster_price
Calculate prompt-enhancement cost
get_balance
Check account balance
get_available_models
List available AI models with specifications
check_job_status
Query async job status by ID
- audio_transcription - Transcribe audio files to text using Whisper models
- audio_transcription_price - Calculate transcription cost
- text_to_audio - Convert text to natural speech (TTS)
- text_to_audio_price - Calculate TTS cost
- text_to_music - Generate music from text description and lyrics
- text_to_music_price - Calculate music generation cost
- audio_url_transcription - Transcribe audio from URLs of completed Twitter Spaces
- audio_url_transcription_price - Calculate Twitter Spaces transcription cost
- video_file_transcription - Transcribe video files to text
- video_file_transcription_price - Calculate video file transcription cost
- video_url_transcription - Transcribe videos from URLs (YouTube, Twitter/X, Twitch, Kick)
- video_url_transcription_price - Calculate video URL transcription cost
- text_to_image - Generate images from text prompts
- image_to_image - Transform images with text guidance
- image_to_text - Extract text from images (OCR)
- image_remove_background - Remove background from images
- image_upscale - Upscale images to higher resolution
- text_to_image_price - Calculate image generation cost
- image_to_image_price - Calculate image transformation cost
- image_to_text_price - Calculate OCR cost
- image_remove_background_price - Calculate background removal cost
- image_upscale_price - Calculate upscaling cost
- text_to_video - Generate videos from text prompts
- image_to_video - Animate static images into videos
- audio_to_video - Generate video conditioned on audio content
- video_replace - Replace a person in a video with a character from a reference image
- video_remove_background - Remove the background from a video
- video_upscale - Upscale a video to higher resolution
- text_to_video_price - Calculate text-to-video cost
- image_to_video_price - Calculate image-to-video cost
- audio_to_video_price - Calculate audio-to-video cost
- video_replace_price - Calculate video character replacement cost
- video_remove_background_price - Calculate video background-removal cost
- video_upscale_price - Calculate video upscaling cost
- text_to_embedding - Generate text embeddings for semantic search
- text_to_embedding_price - Calculate embedding cost
- prompt_booster - Enhance a prompt for any deAPI inference type using AI guides (synchronous, returns refined prompt directly)
- prompt_booster_price - Calculate prompt-enhancement cost
- get_balance - Check account balance
- get_available_models - List available AI models with specifications
- check_job_status - Query async job status by ID
Authentication is handled at the connection level, not per-tool-call. Tools do NOT accept a deapi_api_token parameter.
Here's an example workflow:
1. Get available models:
Use get_available_models to see available models
2. Check your balance:
Use get_balance to check remaining credits
3. Generate an image:
Use text_to_image with:
- prompt: "A beautiful sunset over mountains"
- model: "Flux1schnell"
4. Transcribe audio:
Use audio_transcription with:
- audio: "base64-encoded-audio-or-url"
- include_ts: true
Note: When calling tools via Claude Desktop or MCP SDK, authentication is handled automatically through the server connection (OAuth or HTTP headers). See AUTH.md for detailed OAuth setup.
Claude Desktop / Cursor
Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"deapi mcp server": {
"deapi": {
"type": "streamable-http",
"url": "https://mcp.deapi.ai/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer <your-deapi-api-key>"
}
}
}
}
}
McpServers
{
"deapi": {
"type": "streamable-http",
"url": "https://mcp.deapi.ai/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer <your-deapi-api-key>"
}
}
}
Production-ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the deAPI REST API. This server exposes all deAPI AI capabilities as MCP tools, enabling LLMs to perform audio transcription, image generation, OCR, video generation, text-to-speech, and more.
> deAPI v2 — this server targets the deAPI v2 client API (OpenAI-aligned noun paths under /api/v2/*). Set DEAPI_API_VERSION=v1 if you need to point at the legacy v1 endpoints.
Features
- Complete API Coverage: 39 deAPI tools exposed via MCP, covering every v2 client endpoint
- Smart Adaptive Polling: Automatically polls async jobs with optimized intervals based on job type
- OAuth 2.0 Authentication: Secure token exchange via OAuth Authorization Code flow with PKCE
- Error Recovery: Automatic retry logic with exponential backoff
- Progress Reporting: Real-time progress updates to MCP clients
- Type Safety: Full Pydantic schema validation
- Production Ready: Built with FastMCP framework for reliability
Available Tools
Audio Tools
-audio_transcription - Transcribe audio files to text using Whisper models
- audio_transcription_price - Calculate transcription cost
- text_to_audio - Convert text to natural speech (TTS)
- text_to_audio_price - Calculate TTS cost
- text_to_music - Generate music from text description and lyrics
- text_to_music_price - Calculate music generation cost
- audio_url_transcription - Transcribe audio from URLs of completed Twitter Spaces
- audio_url_transcription_price - Calculate Twitter Spaces transcription cost
Video Transcription Tools
-video_file_transcription - Transcribe video files to text
- video_file_transcription_price - Calculate video file transcription cost
- video_url_transcription - Transcribe videos from URLs (YouTube, Twitter/X, Twitch, Kick)
- video_url_transcription_price - Calculate video URL transcription cost
Image Tools
-text_to_image - Generate images from text prompts
- image_to_image - Transform images with text guidance
- image_to_text - Extract text from images (OCR)
- image_remove_background - Remove background from images
- image_upscale - Upscale images to higher resolution
- text_to_image_price - Calculate image generation cost
- image_to_image_price - Calculate image transformation cost
- image_to_text_price - Calculate OCR cost
- image_remove_background_price - Calculate background removal cost
- image_upscale_price - Calculate upscaling cost
Video Tools
-text_to_video - Generate videos from text prompts
- image_to_video - Animate static images into videos
- audio_to_video - Generate video conditioned on audio content
- video_replace - Replace a person in a video with a character from a reference image
- video_remove_background - Remove the background from a video
- video_upscale - Upscale a video to higher resolution
- text_to_video_price - Calculate text-to-video cost
- image_to_video_price - Calculate image-to-video cost
- audio_to_video_price - Calculate audio-to-video cost
- video_replace_price - Calculate video character replacement cost
- video_remove_background_price - Calculate video background-removal cost
- video_upscale_price - Calculate video upscaling cost
Embedding Tools
-text_to_embedding - Generate text embeddings for semantic search
- text_to_embedding_price - Calculate embedding cost
Prompt Tools
-prompt_booster - Enhance a prompt for any deAPI inference type using AI guides (synchronous, returns refined prompt directly)
- prompt_booster_price - Calculate prompt-enhancement cost
Utility Tools
-get_balance - Check account balance
- get_available_models - List available AI models with specifications
- check_job_status - Query async job status by ID
Installation
Prerequisites
For running the MCP server:
- Python 3.10 or higher
- uv, pip, or conda for package management
For a deAPI account:
- Sign up at deapi.ai and get your API token
Setup
1. Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/deapi-ai/mcp-server-deapi.git
cd mcp-server-deapi
2. Choose your Python environment setup:
Option A: Using uv (recommended - fastest)
uv pip install -e .
Option B: Using pip
pip install -e .
Option C: Using conda
```bash
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