ShortSmash

Name: ShortSmash
Author: hydope

by hydopeversion 0.3.0i★ –iRuns on your computer

Registry nameio.github.hydope/shortsmash

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Generate finished short videos from a prompt, fetch trends, and check project status via MCP.

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Connection: Runs on your computer
Transport: stdio
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Before you install

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You need

PyPIPython’s uv installed (for the uvx command)

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

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Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shortsmash": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "shortsmash"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add shortsmash -- uvx shortsmash

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shortsmash": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "shortsmash"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "shortsmash": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "shortsmash"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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What it can do

Runs on your computer; the tool list appears in your AI app after you install it.

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Common questions

Is ShortSmash safe?

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The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs on your computer. Your AI app starts it when needed, and data does not pass through the maker’s servers (unless it calls an online service itself).

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.3.0) reached the registry 17 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Python (uv) on your computer.

What can I use instead?

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README from the maker

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ShortSmash ⚒️

Prompt in. Finished short out.

ShortSmash is an AI video studio that takes one sentence — or today's trends — and ships a finished, captioned 9:16 short, then publishes it to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Threads, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Facebook (profiles + Pages) through their official APIs. Script, voiceover, *verified* stock footage, karaoke captions, music ducking, trend harvesting, batch production, scheduling and comment-reply drafts, all in one CLI. And an MCP server, so AI agents can drive the whole factory.

shortsmash trends food                    # what's hot right now (free, no keys)

shortsmash batch food --count 5 # turn the top 5 trends into 5 videos shortsmash serve # 🆕 web studio: http://localhost:8000 shortsmash agent "make a 30s reel about coffee and post it Friday at 6pm" shortsmash post myvideo.mp4 --caption # post YOUR video: AI title + hashtags shortsmash post myvideo.mp4 --at "Friday 6pm" --platforms youtube,tiktok

git clone https://github.com/hydope/shortsmash && cd shortsmash

./install.sh # Windows: .\install.ps1 shortsmash "why you can't tickle yourself" # prompt in, finished short out

🏆 Featured in

ShortSmash is listed in curated awesome lists (merged PRs):

ToolkitlyAI/awesome-ai-tools — AI Video
TensorBlock/awesome-mcp-servers — MCP registry profile live on tensorblock.co
sajadh76/awesome-AI-tools — Video Generation
mcpHQ/awesome-mcp-servers — MCP Servers
Jenqyang/Awesome-AI-Agents — AI Agents
Official MCP Registry — io.github.hydope/shortsmash, installable via pip install shortsmash

🏗️ Architecture

flowchart LR

P["Prompt / trend"] --> LLM["LLM: script + shot plan (NVIDIA · Gemini · Grok)"] LLM --> TTS["Neural TTS (50 languages)"] LLM --> VIS["Visuals (Pixabay · Agnes · Veo 3.1 · Kling)"] VIS --> GATE["Vision gate (CLIP + Gemini)"] GATE -->|reject| VIS TTS --> REN["FFmpeg render 1080×1920 · karaoke captions cinematic grade · music"] GATE --> REN REN --> DUB["Dub engine (50 languages)"] REN --> PUB["10 publishers (official APIs)"] DUB --> PUB PUB --> SCHED["Scheduler (SQLite · 'Friday 6pm')"]

🖥️ ShortSmash Studio (web UI)

shortsmash serve launches a dark, fast studio in your browser — no build step:

🎬 Studio tab — type a topic, hit Smash, watch it build; video previews inline
📈 Trends tab — browse what's hot per niche, click any trend to use it as your topic
📚 Library tab — every project, video preview, one-click publish
📤 Manual posts — upload your own video, get a pre-flight check (resolution, duration, per-platform limits), AI-written title + hashtags, then post now or schedule it ("Friday 6pm") to 10 platforms
📊 Stats tab — your output at a glance

🎬 Demo

*Made end-to-end by ShortSmash — no hand-picked clips, no human editing. LLM script, neural voice, CLIP-verified stock footage, karaoke captions, ducked music bed.*

"How Goats Made You Addicted to Coffee" — 49s, 1080×1920, made from one prompt. Click to play:

Same video, re-voiced — native neural voices, same verified footage:

*Español · اردو · Roman Urdu · 中文 — the Mandarin version uses a native voice (not translationese) with Hanzi karaoke captions. One project, every audience.*

More demos — each made from a single prompt, click to play:

Why you can't tickle yourself — 11s, 1080×1920

The deepest place on Earth — 14s, 1080×1920

Why time flies faster as you get older — 11s, 1080×1920

📤 Or skip the AI — post your own video

Upload any video, get a pre-flight check (resolution, duration, per-platform limits), an AI-written title + hashtags, then post now or schedule it ("Friday 6pm") to 10 platforms. In the Studio's Publish tab, or one command: shortsmash post myvideo.mp4 --caption

🖥️ ShortSmash Studio

shortsmash serve — generate, browse trends, publish, and track stats from the browser:

Studio (templates)	Settings (API keys)

Publish	Library

Trends	Stats

Lyrics mode	Auto pilot

Why ShortSmash

Most text-to-video tools assemble clips blindly — whatever the stock API returns first goes in. That's why automated shorts have the infamous "stock-footage look": a burger in a cooking tutorial, a parrot in a recipe video.

ShortSmash is the first open-source pipeline with eyes:

Two-stage vision gate. Every candidate clip's middle frame is checked by a local CLIP model (offline, no quota, no cost) against 15 confuser categories — burgers, birds, houseplants, empty pans, citrus fruit — then by Gemini vision when quota allows. Wrong footage never ships.
Audible gate. Renders with dead or missing audio fail instead of shipping.
Never ships silent. A CC-licensed music library auto-downloads on first run; music is ducked under narration with a real FFmpeg sidechain.

The pipeline

prompt ──▶ script ──▶ voice ──▶ visuals ──▶ captions ──▶ render ──▶ publish

NVIDIA Edge-TTS Pixabay faster- FFmpeg official Gemini Piper Veo 3.1 whisper 1080x1920 APIs only Grok (offline Kling karaoke +faststart OpenAI- neural) Agnes compat 50 langs CLIP-verified

Script — NVIDIA NIM (free) → Gemini (free) → Grok → any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (OpenRouter, DeepSeek, local Ollama) → offline template. Writes a scroll-stopping script *and* a strict JSON edit plan, validated by pydantic. Second-person, punchy, 3–4s scenes.
Voice — Edge-TTS → Piper offline neural → gTTS fallback chain. 50 dub languages with native voices, Urdu/Hindi/Arabic included.
Visuals — free Pixabay footage *or* AI generation: Google Veo 3.1 (best quality, native audio), Kling AI (top-tier motion), Agnes AI (free tier) — every clip verified by the vision gate regardless of source. Prefer your own? Set visual_provider: custom with any command (ComfyUI, Replicate, MiniMax…).
Captions — faster-whisper word timestamps → burned-in karaoke captions.
Render — FFmpeg: 9:16 smart reframe, transitions, hook + CTA overlays, ducked music, H.264/AAC faststart.
Publish — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Pinterest, X. Official APIs only — no Selenium, no scraping, nothing that gets accounts banned.
Dub — shortsmash dub --lang ur re-voices any video in 50 languages — Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Portuguese and 42 more — plus ur-roman / hi-roman for Roman-script captions ("Tum kaise ho?") with the native neural voice. Urdu captions render in proper Nastaliq calligraphy, right-to-left, with the karaoke highlight tracking the spoken word. Same verified clips, new native narration.
Analytics — shortsmash analytics pulls real views/likes/comments from YouTube's API. Numbers from the platform, not vanity metrics.
Trends — shortsmash trends harvests Google News + Hacker News (free, no keys). shortsmash batch turns the top trends into videos unattended.
Schedule — natural language ("Friday 6pm"), durable SQLite queue, retrying worker.
Engage — pulls recent comments, drafts warm replies, you approve each one with a tap. Nothing posts itself.
MCP server — python -m shortsmash.mcp_server exposes generate_video, get_trends, list_projects, project_status to Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP client.
Resume — shortsmash resume picks up failed projects from the first incomplete stage instead of redoing everything.

How ShortSmash compares

	ShortSmash	MoneyPrinterTurbo	OpenPost	Postiz	ShortGPT
Prompt → finished short	✅	✅	❌ (manual editor)	❌	✅
Post your own video (validate + schedule)	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌
Footage verification	✅ CLIP + Gemini	❌	n/a	n/a	❌
Offline neural voice fallback	✅ Piper	❌	n/a	n/a	❌
Audio safety gate	✅	❌	n/a	n/a	❌
Trend harvesting (free, no keys)	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Batch production	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Karaoke word-level captions	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Official publishing APIs	✅ 10 platforms	⚠️ Selenium for YT	✅	✅	⚠️
Multi-language dubbing	✅ 50 languages (incl. Roman Urdu/Hindi, Chinese)	❌	❌	❌	✅
Real analytics pull	✅	❌	❌	✅	❌
Web UI	✅ Studio	✅	✅	✅	✅
MCP server	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌
Comment-reply drafts (human-approved)	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Resume failed projects	✅	❌	n/a	n/a	❌
License	MIT	MIT	AGPL/Commercial	MIT	MIT
$0 to run	✅	✅	self-host	✅	✅

*MoneyPrinterTurbo (129K★) is the most mature; OpenPost is the best manual workspace. ShortSmash is the most engineered AI-native pipeline — the only one that checks its own work.*

What ShortSmash will never do

No fake likes, comments, follows, shares, or stars. No botting, no "human-like" evasion of platform detection, no scraping or unofficial endpoints. That violates every platform's rules and gets accounts banned — and it doesn't work for real growth anyway. This boundary is architectural, not a policy note: the capability simply isn't in the codebase.

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ShortSmash

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Otheri

Common questions

Alternatives

Spec Driven Development

Remote Desktop Commander

Microsoft Exchange Online MCP

README from the maker

ShortSmash ⚒️

🏆 Featured in

🏗️ Architecture

🖥️ ShortSmash Studio (web UI)

🎬 Demo

📤 Or skip the AI — post your own video

🖥️ ShortSmash Studio

Why ShortSmash

The pipeline

How ShortSmash compares

What ShortSmash will never do

Quickstart — one command