YouTube & Media MCP

YouTube & Media MCP is a NexGenData tool on Apify that returns YouTube transcripts, podcast episodes and IMDb titles as agent tools from YouTube, podcast directories and IMDb.

A Model Context Protocol server that gives AI agents media data — YouTube transcripts, IMDb titles and podcast search — as callable tools. For media-research, summarization and content agents.

📊 Sample Output

status	message	server_url	apify_url	transport	tools
MCP Server Running	This is an MCP server, not a scraper. It does not produce results whe…	https://nexgendata--youtube-media-mcp-server.apify.actor/mcp	https://apify.com/nexgendata/youtube-media-mcp-server	streamable-http	['youtube_transcript', 'search_podcasts', 'imdb_search']

Real rows from run xWhrRPCWALmb0eogc on build 0.0.12 (2026-09-04), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run xWhrRPCWALmb0eogc (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "status": "MCP Server Running",
  "message": "This is an MCP server, not a scraper. It does not produce results when run directly.",
  "how_to_connect": "Connect from an MCP-compatible AI client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.)",
  "server_url": "https://nexgendata--youtube-media-mcp-server.apify.actor/mcp",
  "apify_url": "https://apify.com/nexgendata/youtube-media-mcp-server",
  "documentation": "See the README for setup instructions and example configurations.",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "endpoint": "/mcp",
  "tools": [
    "youtube_transcript",
    "search_podcasts",
    "imdb_search"
  ]
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$5e-05	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Tool call (tool-call)	$0.05	Per-tool invocation via MCP Standby

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.05 = $5.00 plus the start fee.

🔗 Related Actors

More from the NexGenData MCP servers for AI agents family:

• Weather MCP — Current Conditions & Forecast for Agents
• Web Scraping MCP — Crawl, Search & Wikipedia for Agents
• Yahoo Finance MCP Server — Quotes & Compare for AI Agents

32 more in this family on the NexGenData Store page.

🛠 Tools (3)

• imdb_search — Search IMDb titles.
• search_podcasts — Search podcasts.
• youtube_transcript — Fetch the transcript of a YouTube video.

🔌 Connect (Claude Desktop / Cursor / n8n / OpenAI Agents SDK)

Add this MCP server to your client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "youtube-media": {
      "url": "https://nexgendata--youtube-media-mcp-server.apify.actor/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Sample agent prompt:

Fetch the transcript of a YouTube video and summarize its key points.

Pricing: $0.05 per tool call (Pay-Per-Event) — about 20 per $1. Actor start fee $5e-05 per run. Live prices are in the Pricing table below.

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Related NexGenData MCP Servers & Media Actors

Use case	Actor
YouTube transcript scraper	youtube-transcript-scraper
Podcast episodes scraper	podcast-episodes-scraper
IMDB scraper	imdb-scraper
News MCP (press coverage)	news-mcp-server
Review Intelligence MCP (Trustpilot/G2/Yelp)	review-intelligence-mcp-server

FAQ

Q: How fresh is the data? A: Each tool call is a live fetch from the source at call time.

Q: Does the transcript tool need captions to exist? A: It returns the captions/transcript available for the video on YouTube.

Q: Can my agent download videos or audio? A: No — this is read-only metadata and transcript intelligence, not a downloader.

About NexGenData

NexGenData publishes a large catalog of buyer-intent actors plus a family of MCP servers for AI agent workflows. All pay-per-event. Browse the full catalog at https://apify.com/nexgendata

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