Share an Instagram reel to Claude and have it watch, research, and build what it shows. Self-hosted MCP connector (yt-dlp + ffmpeg + Groq Whisper).
Forward an Instagram reel to Claude the same way you send it to a friend - then have Claude watch it, research it, and build what it shows.
Ever be doomscrolling reels, hit one with a genuinely good idea - for me it's usually some insane UI demo - and I think "I want Claude to build a demo"... but you can't be bothered to pause, transcribe it, and explain it? So you save it to the graveyard folder you'll never open again.
reel-relay closes that gap. Share the reel to your self-hosted endpoint (a Telegram bot, an iOS Shortcut, or an Instagram DM), and it lands in Claude as a timestamped transcript plus sampled video frames - so Claude can actually "watch" it and you can just say "what's in the reel I just shared?" Then take it further: "research whether this tactic would work for my project" or "build the thing in that reel."
The share gesture you already use 20 times a day - now one of the recipients is Claude.
Everything runs in one Python process you host yourself. Claude reaches it as a standard MCP custom connector - the reel's transcript arrives as text and its frames arrive as images, so Claude sees both what's said and what's shown.
- Multiple ways to ingest - forward a reel to a Telegram bot (easiest, works on iOS and Android, no app review), an iOS share-sheet Shortcut, or an Instagram DM webhook. - Claude actually "watches" the video - timestamped transcript + evenly-sampled, deduplicated frames delivered as MCP image content. - Three MCP tools tuned so Claude knows to grab "the reel I just shared" with zero ceremony. - Free transcription via Groq's whisper-l
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