AutomationNation Data Tools

AutomationNation MCP server: Google Flights, Hotels, Shopping, News, Jobs, Trends, Maps leads, YouTube transcripts and more for AI agents

An MCP server with 18 data tools for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and other AI agents. Each tool runs one of AutomationNation's Apify Actors on your Apify account and returns compact JSON the agent can use straight away: flight fares, hotel prices, product prices, news, jobs, search trends, local business leads, competitors' ads, YouTube transcripts, app reviews and AI-search visibility.

• Purpose-built tools: short, documented inputs (origin, destination, departure_date…) instead of raw scraper schemas, and outputs trimmed to the fields an agent needs.
• Pay per result, no subscription: usage is billed by each Actor on your Apify account (prices below). A free Apify account includes monthly credit.
• Safe by default: every run carries a spending cap of about 3x its expected cost; long runs return partial results with a run_id instead of timing out.
• Works without a token for discovery: tools are listed before you configure anything, so clients and registries can inspect them.

Try it without installing anything: add https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/data-tools-mcp-server as a connector in Claude, ChatGPT or any remote-MCP client, sign in with Apify, and ask something like "find nonstop flights from London to New York on 12 November". Other ways to run it are under Install.

Tools

Tool	What it does	Price on your Apify account
search_flights	Search Google Flights for one route and date.	$0.20 per 1,000 flights ($0.16 on Gold and above)
search_hotels	Search Google Hotels for a city, neighbourhood or landmark.	$1 per 1,000 hotels ($0.80 on Gold and above)
search_google	Search Google and get the web results in Google's order: title, URL, site and snippet for each.	$5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results ($4 on Gold and above)
search_google_shopping	Search Google Shopping for a product in any country.	$1 per 1,000 products ($0.80 on Gold and above)
get_youtube_transcripts	Get the transcript (captions) of YouTube videos, with title, channel, duration, caption language and word count, and optional timestamps.	$1.50 per 1,000 transcripts ($1.20 on Gold and above)
search_google_news	Search Google News for a topic, company or person.	$1 per 1,000 articles ($0.80 on Gold and above)
search_google_images	Search Google Images.	$0.25 per 1,000 images ($0.20 on Gold and above)
search_google_videos	Search Google's video results across YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, news sites and more.	$1 per 1,000 videos ($0.80 on Gold and above)
search_jobs	Search Google Jobs, which aggregates listings from LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, company career sites and more, in 26 countries.	$2 per 1,000 jobs ($1.50 on paid plans) + $0.03 per search
get_google_trends	Google Trends for up to 5 keywords: interest over time (0–100), average, latest and peak interest, trend direction and change, top regions, and top and rising related searches with "Breakout" flags.	$1 per 1,000 keyword reports ($0.27–$0.90 on paid plans) · $0.50 per 1,000 trending searches
get_trending_searches	What's trending on Google right now in a country, like trends.google.com/trending: each trending search with its search volume, increase, start time, whether it is still active, related searches and optional news articles.	$1 per 1,000 keyword reports ($0.27–$0.90 on paid plans) · $0.50 per 1,000 trending searches
find_local_businesses	Find local businesses on Google Maps in any country, as sales leads.	$0.03 per lead ($0.024 on Gold); $0.08 per business found with the no-website or unclaimed filters
find_uk_business_leads	UK business leads from Google Maps, enriched from Companies House: everything find_local_businesses returns plus the company director's name, company number, incorporation date, company age and SIC codes, with a match-confidence rating.	$0.05 per lead ($0.04 on Gold)
get_advertiser_ads	Every ad an advertiser runs on Google Search, YouTube, Display and Shopping, from Google's Ads Transparency Center.	$1 per 1,000 ads ($0.80 on Gold and above)
get_app_reviews	App reviews from the Apple App Store or Google Play: star rating, title, text, date, reviewer and the developer's reply, plus app version and helpful votes for Google Play.	$0.08 per 1,000 reviews ($0.05–$0.07 on paid plans)
analyze_app_reviews	AI analysis of the latest App Store and Google Play reviews for up to 5 apps: top bugs, top feature requests, critical issues, competitor mentions, a sentiment summary, the rating distribution and the app versions mentioned.	$0.05 per app report ($0.04 on Gold)
check_ai_overview_citations	Check Google AI Overviews for your keywords: whether an AI Overview appears, whether it cites your domain and at what position, which domains and competitors it cites instead, whether your brand is mentioned, the AI Overview text, your organic rank, and what changed since your last check.	$0.04 per keyword ($0.032 on Gold), plus $2 per run from 17 Nov 2026; $0.01 per keyword until 16 Oct 2026
check_ai_visibility	Ask AI assistants the questions your customers ask and see whether they mention and cite your brand.	$0.05 per answer checked ($0.04 on Gold) + $0.50 per optional report
get_run_results	Fetch the results of a run that was still going when its tool returned.	Free

Install

No install (Claude, ChatGPT and other clients with remote MCP): add this URL as a connector and sign in with Apify:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/data-tools-mcp-server

It runs the same server hosted on Apify (data-tools-mcp-server). Clients that use mcp.json can connect to https://automationnation--data-tools-mcp-server.apify.actor/mcp with the header Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>. Add ?tools=travel (or any toolset below) to load fewer tools.

Run it yourself: You need an Apify API token: sign up free at console.apify.com, then copy the token from Settings → API & Integrations.

MCP Registry name: io.github.retracn/automationnation-mcp.

Claude Desktop: download automationnation-mcp.mcpb (or a smaller toolset below), open it, and paste your token when asked.

Claude Code

claude mcp add automationnation -e APIFY_TOKEN=your_apify_token -- npx -y github:retracn/automationnation-mcp

Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Cline and other clients (mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "automationnation": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:retracn/automationnation-mcp"],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "your_apify_token", "AUTOMATIONNATION_TOOLS": "all" }
    }
  }
}

Hosted endpoint for any client with remote MCP (Streamable HTTP, nothing to install; your token goes in a header):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "automationnation": {
      "url": "https://automationnation--data-tools-mcp-server.apify.actor/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer your_apify_token" }
    }
  }
}

Open WebUI: Admin Panel → Settings → External Tools → +, type MCP (Streamable HTTP), URL https://automationnation--data-tools-mcp-server.apify.actor/mcp, auth Bearer with your Apify token. Prefer single tools? See open-webui-tools.

LibreChat (librechat.yaml):

mcpServers:
  automationnation:
    type: streamable-http
    url: https://automationnation--data-tools-mcp-server.apify.actor/mcp
    headers:
      Authorization: "Bearer your_apify_token"

Smithery: npx -y @smithery/cli mcp add automationnation/data-tools

Self-hosted over HTTP (one deployment serves many users; each client sends its own token as Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>):

npx -y github:retracn/automationnation-mcp --http --port 8080      # http://localhost:8080/mcp
docker build -t automationnation-mcp . && docker run -p 8080:8080 automationnation-mcp --http

Toolsets

Load only what you need with AUTOMATIONNATION_TOOLS (or --tools): a comma-separated list of toolsets or tool names. Fewer tools keep the agent's context small.

Toolset	Tools for	Claude Desktop bundle
all	AutomationNation Data Tools	automationnation-mcp.mcpb
travel	Google Flights & Hotels	automationnation-travel.mcpb
youtube	YouTube Transcripts	automationnation-youtube.mcpb
shopping	Google Shopping	automationnation-shopping.mcpb
news	Google News	automationnation-news.mcpb
google-search	Google Search	automationnation-google-search.mcpb
jobs	Google Jobs	automationnation-jobs.mcpb
trends	Google Trends	automationnation-trends.mcpb
leads	Google Maps Leads	automationnation-leads.mcpb
ads	Google Ads Transparency	automationnation-ads.mcpb
app-reviews	App Store & Google Play Reviews	automationnation-app-reviews.mcpb
ai-visibility	AI Visibility & AI Overviews	automationnation-ai-visibility.mcpb

How it works

1. The agent calls a tool, for example search_flights with {"origin": "JFK", "destination": "LHR", "departure_date": "2026-11-12"}.
2. The server starts the matching Actor through the Apify API with your token and a spending cap (maxTotalChargeUsd), and sends progress updates while it runs.
3. Most tools finish in 5–30 seconds; lead searches take 1–3 minutes. The server waits up to 4 minutes (AUTOMATIONNATION_WAIT_SECS), then returns a one-line summary, the Apify run link and the results as compact JSON.
4. If a run is still going, the tool returns what is ready plus a run_id; get_run_results fetches the rest.

Your token is only sent to api.apify.com. Runs, datasets and spend are visible in your Apify Console.

No install: Apify's hosted MCP endpoints

Every Actor is also available on Apify's hosted MCP server with OAuth sign-in. These listings are in the official MCP Registry:

Registry name	What the agent can do	Endpoint
io.github.retracn/ai-visibility	AI visibility for agents: is a brand mentioned and cited by Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews?	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/ai-visibility-tracker
io.github.retracn/app-reviews-ai	AI summary of App Store and Google Play reviews: bugs, feature requests and critical issues.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/app-store-review-miner
io.github.retracn/app-store-reviews	App Store reviews for AI agents: any app or country, past the 500-review limit, with dev replies.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/app-store-reviews-scraper
io.github.retracn/automationnation	Google Shopping, Flights, Hotels, News, Images, Ads, Jobs, Trends, YouTube transcripts, leads.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/google-maps-le…
io.github.retracn/automationnation-mcp	Agent tools: Google web search, Flights, Hotels, Shopping, News, Jobs, Trends, Maps leads, YouTube	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/data-tools-mcp-server
io.github.retracn/google-ads-transparency	Competitors' Google ads for AI agents: every ad a brand runs, with dates and ad text.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/google-ads-transparency-scraper
io.github.retracn/google-ai-overview-tracker	Check if Google AI Overviews cite your website: citations, competitors and changes over time.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/aeo-auditor
io.github.retracn/google-flights	Google Flights for AI agents: prices, airlines, flight numbers, times, stops, emissions.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/google-flights-scraper
io.github.retracn/google-hotels	Google Hotels for AI agents: prices for your dates, ratings, star class, location, photos.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/google-hotels-scraper
io.github.retracn/google-images	Google Images for AI agents: full-size image URLs, sizes and source pages, with filters.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/google-images-scraper
io.github.retracn/google-jobs	Search Google Jobs from AI agents: listings with salaries, full descriptions and apply links.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/google-jobs-scraper
io.github.retracn/google-maps-leads	Local business leads from Google Maps in any country: emails, socials, website audit, outreach.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/google-maps-leads
io.github.retracn/google-news	Google News for AI agents: headlines, sources, dates and article URLs, with time filters.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/google-news-scraper
io.github.retracn/google-play-reviews	Google Play reviews for AI agents: any app, country or language, with developer replies.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/google-play-reviews-scraper
io.github.retracn/google-search	Google web search for AI agents: title, link and snippet in Custom Search JSON API format.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/google-custom-search-api
io.github.retracn/google-shopping	Google Shopping for AI agents: product prices, discounts, stores, ratings and reviews.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/google-shopping-scraper
io.github.retracn/google-trends	Google Trends data for AI agents: interest over time, regions, rising queries and trending searches.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/google-trends-scraper
io.github.retracn/google-videos	Google video results for AI agents: YouTube, TikTok and more, with channel and duration.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/google-videos-scraper
io.github.retracn/uk-business-leads	UK business leads from Google Maps with emails, phones, Companies House directors and outreach.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/uk-business-leads
io.github.retracn/youtube-transcripts	YouTube transcripts for AI agents: text and timestamps for any video, channel or playlist.	https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=automationnation/youtube-transcript-scraper

Use the URL in any client with remote MCP support; clients with MCP OAuth (Claude, ChatGPT) sign in with Apify, others send Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>.

Development

npm install
npm test                      # stdio end-to-end tests against a mock Apify API
node scripts/build.mjs        # dist/index.js plus one .mcpb bundle per toolset

servers/*/server.json are the MCP Registry listings; the GitHub Actions workflow publishes them when they change.

Related: drop-in packages for broken libraries

The same Actors also power open-source drop-in replacements. Change one import and keep your code:

Package	Replaces	Fixes
pytrends-cloud (Python)	pytrends	429 TooManyRequestsError
youtube-transcript-cloud (Python)	youtube-transcript-api	RequestBlocked / IpBlocked on cloud servers
youtube-transcript-cloud (npm)	youtube-transcript	Fails in production on Vercel, Lambda, Render
google-trends-api-cloud (npm)	google-trends-api	429s; dailyTrends and realTimeTrends 404
app-store-scraper-cloud (npm)	app-store-scraper	reviews() 403 / "Unexpected token <", 500-review cap
jobspy-google (Python)	JobSpy's Google source	"Google Jobs is currently unavailable"
amadeus-cloud (npm)	Amadeus SDK flight search	Self-Service keys switched off (July 2026)

More: guides and examples · all AutomationNation Actors

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