peepshow/ sinks/ qdrant

Reel #15 Vector DB

peepshow sink / qdrant

QdrantUpsert frame points into a Qdrant collection.

Named vectors, payload metadata, filter-ready. Works with Qdrant Cloud or self-hosted.

drop · process · qdrant

What it does

Push a peepshow run into a Qdrant collection. Each frame is a point with a text-embedding vector and structured payload (director, genre, timestamp, path) so you can query with vector + filter.

When to reach for it

  • Filterable video RAG: `similar to X AND genre=Thriller AND director=Kubrick`
  • Enterprise self-hosted vector DB with peepshow as the ingestor
  • High-QPS frame lookup for an agent querying a very large video corpus

Install

npm i -g peepshow

Use it

peepshow ./doc.mp4 --sink qdrant \
  --sink-arg url=https://your-cluster.qdrant.io \
  --sink-arg collection=peepshow

Make it automatic

Register the sink once — every run fires it afterward. Scope by --when so it only runs for matching videos.

peepshow sinks add qdrant
peepshow sinks add qdrant --when extension=mp4,mov
peepshow sinks add qdrant --when path=/Volumes/Work/

Configuration

  • PEEPSHOW_QDRANT_URL Qdrant cluster URL. required
  • PEEPSHOW_QDRANT_API_KEY API key for Qdrant Cloud.

Use with an LLM agent

Every peepshow sink reads its config from env vars and receives a single JSON payload on stdin. An LLM agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini, Codex) can drive the Qdrant sink automatically when three things are true:

  • the env vars below are exported in the agent's shell (or a project .env it can load),
  • the peepshow CLI is on PATH — install with npm i -g peepshow,
  • a peepshow auto-sink is registered for the run (optional but recommended — makes invocation zero-argument).

1. Set the environment

# Add to ~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc, or a project .env the agent can load
export PEEPSHOW_QDRANT_URL="..."

2. Register as an auto-sink

peepshow sinks add qdrant
peepshow sinks add qdrant --when extension=mp4,mov

3. Example LLM session

You → drop a .mov into Claude Code.

Claude → auto-invokes /peepshow:slides ./clip.mov. peepshow extracts frames + audio, the Qdrant sink forwards the run to the configured collection. Claude replies with a summary and a link to the created record.

The transcript text is a natural embedding target — index it next to the frames.

Write your own

A sink is any executable that reads the --emit json payload on stdin. Shell, Node, Python, Go — the spec's in docs/PLUGINS.md. Register persistent ones with peepshow sinks add-cmd 'your-command'.