Research & trends models & tools for AI video

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19 models & tools for research & trends: trend scouting, reference search, video analysis and scrapers for your agent.

Models & tools (19)

• Video Skills Finder — varg: Finds the right skill for any AI video, image, voice or music job here and shows you the visual options.
• Apify MCP — Apify: Thousands of ready scrapers behind one MCP: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, hashtags, sounds.
• TwelveLabs Video Understanding — TwelveLabs: Semantic search and analysis across your video library from Claude Code.
• Civitai MCP — Civitai: Top AI images and videos with prompts and base models, plus model search.
• Hugging Face MCP — Hugging Face: Trending models, Spaces and papers from Hugging Face inside your agent.
• Exa Search MCP — Exa: Neural web search and crawling for research agents.
• Firecrawl MCP — Firecrawl: Search, scrape and crawl web pages into clean text for your agent.
• Last 30 Days Research — Matt Van Horn: Researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN and the web for the last 30 days, with sources.
• Watch (video analysis) — Brad Bonanno: Gives the agent eyes on any video: download, scene-aware frames, timestamped transcript.
• YouTube MCP — Zubeid Hendricks: YouTube Data API over MCP: search, video and channel stats, transcripts.
• Reddit MCP Buddy — Karan: Browse and search Reddit from your agent: posts, rising threads, users. No API key needed.
• Trends MCP — Trends MCP: Live Google Trends plus growth data from TikTok, YouTube, Amazon, Reddit and 30+ sources.
• TrendPulse MCP — AKzar1el: Free Google News + Google Trends MCP for keyword, market and content research.
• YouTube Transcript MCP — Junpei Kawamoto: Transcripts of any YouTube video for the agent: hooks, scripts, lyrics timing.
• Douyin Hot Trend — franklu0819-lang, beta: Fetches the Douyin hot list: rank, title, heat score, link and cover image for top topics
• Bilibili Hot Monitor — jacobzwj, beta: Daily email report of popular Bilibili videos, with subtitle-based AI summaries and comments
• Bilibili Transcribe & Summary — markusbetter, beta: Turns a Bilibili link into a transcript and summary: official subtitles first, cloud speech-to-text as fallback
• Douyin Trends — codekungfu, beta: Guide for reading public Douyin search, trending and creator pages and summarising likes, comments and shares
• Douyin Search and Hot List — um-why, beta: Read-only Douyin data as JSON: keyword search, creator posts and follower stats, comments and the live hot list.

More for research & trends

Guides (1)

• Head of Content — Brad Bonanno, beta: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X outlier research, hook analysis and a content plan.

Other kinds of skills

• Prompts: The words a video model obeys: camera angles, shot sizes, lighting, characters, hooks and prompt guides for Seedance, Kling, Veo, FLUX and Higgsfield. Your agent writes the prompt with them, or you paste them into the model.
• Effects: An effect you can see, added to your video: animated titles, captions, transitions, shader backgrounds, logo animations, device mockups and viral camera tricks. Hand your agent the footage or the brief and get the effect.
• Styles: The look of the whole video: art styles, film looks, color grades and LUTs, caption fonts and style references. Pick a style and every shot your agent makes follows it.
• Guides: Know-how your agent reads before it works: how to write a script, storyboard, edit and caption, and how to use Remotion, HyperFrames, GSAP, Three.js and FFmpeg.
• Workflows: A brief in, a finished video out: UGC ads, product videos, music videos, talking heads, explainers, Shorts and short dramas, step by step, with the models and the edit chosen for you.