Travelanimator MCP server

Travel Animator MCP

Describe a trip. Get a video of it.

Travel Animator MCP lets an AI assistant plan a route, style the animation and render it to an MP4 on your machine — the route drawing itself as it is travelled, a 3D vehicle following it, map labels, country flags, and the distance badge the mobile app draws on top.

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You say: *"Make me a 20-second video of a road trip from Lisbon to Porto to Braga, on

the Terrain map, with a red line and a car."*

Your assistant: creates the project, adds the three stops, follows real roads between

them, sets the map and line style, renders, and hands back the path to the MP4.

More prompts that work — and what it won't do — in examples/prompts.md.

Install

Two commands. The second one is not optional — a stdio MCP server cannot prompt you for credentials, so you log in once in your own terminal.

Claude Code

claude mcp add travel-animator -e TADA_SOURCE=readme -- uvx --from "travel-animator[mcp]@latest" travel-animator mcp
uvx travel-animator login

Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, or any client that takes JSON

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "travel-animator": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "travel-animator[mcp]@latest", "travel-animator", "mcp"],
      "env": { "TADA_SOURCE": "readme" }
    }
  }
}

…then uvx travel-animator login in a terminal.

@latest re-resolves on every launch, so restarting your client is all an update needs. Without it uvx reuses whatever it first cached, and you stay on that version.

TADA_SOURCE tells us which instructions you followed. Optional — delete it if you like.

Already have Python? pip install "travel-animator[mcp]" and use travel-animator as the command. Python 3.12+.

Per-client instructions, including the "works in the terminal but not in the desktop app" PATH fix, are in docs/clients.md.

What you need

If your machine can't render at all, the server says so up front — before you build a project it can't finish — and can fall back to a server-side render.

What it can make

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.