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I gave AI agents a video downloader: building a remote MCP server in Python

AI assistants can write code and summarise articles, but when I asked one to "download this video" it had no way to do it. I had already built SaveDock , a free video and audio downloader on Django, yt-dlp and Celery, so I gave agents a way to use it: an MCP server. What is MCP? The Model Context P…

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  1. 2026-11-04 18:35 · DEV Community — AI
    I gave AI agents a video downloader: building a remote MCP server in Python

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