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Upload videos from a URL

An MCP tool from the Cloudflare API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Upload videos from a URL Uploads a video to Stream from a provided URL. [POST /accounts/{account_id}/stream/copy]

Name on the gateway: cloudflare_api__stream_videos_upload_videos_from_a_url · may change things.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`account_id` required	`string`	account_id parameter
`allowedOrigins`	`array`	Lists the origins allowed to display the video.…
`creator`	`string`	A user-defined identifier for the media creator.
`input` required	`string`	A video's URL. The server must be publicly…
`meta`	`object`	A user modifiable key-value store used to…
`name`	`string`	A video's name. Used for legacy compatibility.
`requireSignedURLs`	`boolean`	Indicates whether the video can be a accessed…
`scheduledDeletion`	`string`	Indicates the date and time at which the video…
`thumbnailTimestampPct`	`number`	The timestamp for a thumbnail image calculated…
`url`	`string`	A video's URL. The server must be publicly…
`watermark`	`object`

Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:

call_tool arguments

{
  "name": "cloudflare_api__stream_videos_upload_videos_from_a_url",
  "arguments": {
    "account_id": "…",
    "input": "…"
  }
}

Or connect the Cloudflare API server directly, which lists 3,127 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http hj-cloudflare-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/cloudflare-api \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Use the upload videos from a url tool with account_id set to ….