fal-mcp-server 0.2.0

MCP server for Fal.ai - Generate images, videos, music and audio with AI models

🎨 Fal.ai MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables Claude Desktop (and other MCP clients) to generate images, videos, music, and audio using Fal.ai models.

✨ Features

🚀 Performance

• Native Async API - Uses fal_client.run_async() for optimal performance

• Queue Support - Long-running tasks (video/music) use queue API with progress updates

• Non-blocking - All operations are truly asynchronous

• 🖼️ Image Generation - Create images using Flux, SDXL, and other models

• 🎬 Video Generation - Generate videos from images or text prompts

• 🎵 Music Generation - Create music from text descriptions

• 🗣️ Text-to-Speech - Convert text to natural speech

• 📝 Audio Transcription - Transcribe audio using Whisper

• ⬆️ Image Upscaling - Enhance image resolution

• 🔄 Image-to-Image - Transform existing images with prompts

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10 or higher
• Fal.ai API key (free tier available)
• Claude Desktop (or any MCP-compatible client)

Installation

Option 1: Install from PyPI (Recommended)

pip install fal-mcp-server

Or with uv:

uv pip install fal-mcp-server

Option 2: Install from source

git clone https://github.com/raveenb/fal-mcp-server.git
cd fal-mcp-server
pip install -e .

Configuration

1. Get your Fal.ai API key from fal.ai

2. Configure Claude Desktop by adding to:

   • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
   • Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

For PyPI Installation:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fal-ai": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "fal_mcp_server.server"],
      "env": {
        "FAL_KEY": "your-fal-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

For Source Installation:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fal-ai": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["/path/to/fal-mcp-server/src/fal_mcp_server/server.py"],
      "env": {
        "FAL_KEY": "your-fal-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop

💬 Usage

Once configured, ask Claude to:

• "Generate an image of a sunset"
• "Create a video from this image"
• "Generate 30 seconds of ambient music"
• "Convert this text to speech"
• "Transcribe this audio file"

📦 Supported Models

Image Models

• flux_schnell - Fast high-quality generation
• flux_dev - Development version with more control
• sdxl - Stable Diffusion XL

Video Models

• svd - Stable Video Diffusion
• animatediff - Text-to-video animation

Audio Models

• musicgen - Music generation
• bark - Text-to-speech
• whisper - Audio transcription

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

📝 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Fal.ai for providing the AI models
• Anthropic for the MCP specification