Media & Video
captureProductClip
Capture Product Clip
Record a real browser session of a Cloud page (or a Studio app route like "/a/<slug>") on one of your MachineSync machines, at device scale 2 with a single high-bitrate H.264 encode, and land the…
Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "record the dashboard for the video", and it calls captureProductClip.
Example call
The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.
{
"arguments": {},
"name": "captureProductClip"
}Arguments
appIdstringoptionalThe Studio video project (app) ID whose media pool the clip lands in. Required to start a capture.durationMsnumberoptionalLength of the clip in milliseconds, 1000 to 60000. Default 10000.interactionsobject[]optionalOptional script, run in order while recording: waits, clicks and scrolls. At most 40 steps.jobIdstringoptionalRead an earlier capture instead of starting one: the jobId captureProductClip returned.machineIdstringoptionalWhich machine records (from listMachines). Omit to let the least busy healthy one take it.urlstringoptionalThe page: a full URL ("https://www.thecloud.so/home") or a Cloud route ("/a/<slug>/menu"). Required to start a capture.viewportobjectoptionalThe page size in CSS pixels. The clip is twice this in real pixels. Default 1280x800.
Returns
Returns { jobId, status, expected pixel size } at once; call again with just the jobId for the landed clip (file URL, pixel size, pool item).
Ask for it
The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.
- record the dashboard for the video
- capture a clip of this page
- screen-record The Cloud at retina
- get a 10-second clip of the Studio page into my project
Pair it with
The verbs that finish the job.
Questions
What does captureProductClip do?
Record a real browser session of a Cloud page (or a Studio app route like "/a/<slug>") on one of your MachineSync machines, at device scale 2 with a single high-bitrate H.264 encode, and land the… It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.
How do I use captureProductClip from Claude or ChatGPT?
Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "record the dashboard for the video", and it calls captureProductClip.
Is captureProductClip safe to let an AI call?
captureProductClip changes your workspace. What an AI creates is Private until you share it. It reaches a system outside The Cloud on your behalf.
Connect
One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.