automationnation-mcp
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| APIFY_TOKEN | Yes | Your Apify API token. Sign up free at console.apify.com, then copy the token from Settings → API & Integrations. Sent only to api.apify.com. Required to run tools (tools are still listed without a token so clients and registries can inspect them). | |
| AUTOMATIONNATION_TOOLS | No | Load only what you need: a comma-separated list of toolsets or tool names. Fewer tools keep the agent's context small. Toolset values include: all, travel, youtube, shopping, news, google-search, jobs, trends, leads, ads, app-reviews, ai-visibility. | all |
| AUTOMATIONNATION_WAIT_SECS | No | How long the server waits (in seconds) for an Actor run before returning what is ready plus a run_id; the rest can be fetched with get_run_results. | 240 |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": true
} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| search_flightsA | Search Google Flights for one route and date. Returns each flight's total price, airlines, flight numbers, departure and arrival times, duration, stops and layovers, CO2 emissions, and whether Google marks it as a best flight. One way by default; set return_date for round-trip prices. Use it for flight prices, schedules and the cheapest or fastest options between two places. Typically 5–20 seconds. Cost on your Apify account: $0.20 per 1,000 flights ($0.16 on Gold and above). |
| search_hotelsA | Search Google Hotels for a city, neighbourhood or landmark. Returns hotel name, star class, guest rating and review count, nightly price with and without taxes, estimated total for the stay, description, nearby places, website, coordinates and Google Hotels link. Set check_in and check_out for exact prices (otherwise Google picks dates). Filter by minimum rating, minimum stars and maximum nightly price. Up to 20 hotels per search, typically 5–20 seconds. Cost on your Apify account: $1 per 1,000 hotels ($0.80 on Gold and above). |
| search_google_shoppingA | Search Google Shopping for a product in any country. Returns product title, current price, original price and discount, store, whether other stores sell it, delivery and returns details, rating, review count and a Google Shopping link. Use it for price comparison, finding where to buy, and competitor or market price research. About 50 products per search in the country's currency, typically a few seconds. Cost on your Apify account: $1 per 1,000 products ($0.80 on Gold and above). |
| get_youtube_transcriptsA | Get the transcript (captions) of YouTube videos, with title, channel, duration, caption language and word count, and optional timestamps. Accepts video URLs or IDs, Shorts, youtu.be links, and channel or playlist URLs (it takes their latest videos). Manual captions in the requested language come first, then auto-generated ones; translation into another language is best effort. Use it to summarise, quote, fact-check or search inside videos. Videos without captions come back with an error status and aren't billed. Cost on your Apify account: $1.50 per 1,000 transcripts ($1.20 on Gold and above). |
| search_google_newsA | Search Google News for a topic, company or person. Returns headline, snippet, publisher, publish time and the publisher's article URL (Google's redirect is resolved). Filter by time (past hour to past year) and sort by relevance or newest first, in any country and language. Use it for current events, company and competitor news monitoring, and research. Up to 100 articles per call, typically a few seconds. Cost on your Apify account: $1 per 1,000 articles ($0.80 on Gold and above). |
| search_google_imagesA | Search Google Images. Returns the full-size image URL with width and height, a thumbnail, and the source page's URL, title and site. Filter by size, colour, type (photo, clipart, line art, face, animated), time and usage rights. Up to 100 images per search, typically a few seconds. Check the licence on the source page before reusing an image. Cost on your Apify account: $0.25 per 1,000 images ($0.20 on Gold and above). |
| search_google_videosA | Search Google's video results across YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, news sites and more. Returns title, URL, platform, channel, duration, publish date, snippet, key moments and a Shorts flag. Filter by time and length. Use it to find videos on a topic beyond YouTube's own search. Up to 100 videos per call. Cost on your Apify account: $1 per 1,000 videos ($0.80 on Gold and above). |
| search_jobsA | Search Google Jobs, which aggregates listings from LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, company career sites and more, in 26 countries. Returns job title, company, location, remote flag, source, posting date, employment type, salary (text plus parsed min, max, currency and period), a description excerpt, qualifications and apply links. Filter by date posted, employment type and remote only. Up to 100 jobs per call. Cost on your Apify account: $2 per 1,000 jobs ($1.50 on paid plans) + $0.03 per search. |
| get_google_trendsA | 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. Compare terms on one scale and choose the country or region (US, GB, US-CA…), the time range (past hour to all time) and the search type (web, images, news, YouTube, Shopping). Use it for demand and seasonality research and to compare brands or topics. Cost on your Apify account: $1 per 1,000 keyword reports ($0.27–$0.90 on paid plans) · $0.50 per 1,000 trending searches. |
| get_trending_searchesA | 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. Windows of the past 4, 24 or 48 hours or 7 days. Use it for real-time monitoring, news-jacking and content ideas. Cost on your Apify account: $1 per 1,000 keyword reports ($0.27–$0.90 on paid plans) · $0.50 per 1,000 trending searches. |
| find_local_businessesA | Find local businesses on Google Maps in any country, as sales leads. Returns name, category, address, phone, email (found on the business website), website, rating and review count, social profiles, opening-date estimate, unclaimed-listing flag and a lead score with reasons. Search any business type in any city, e.g. "dentist" in "Austin, TX". Filters for businesses without a website, recently opened businesses and review counts. Optional AI outreach drafts. About 1–3 minutes for 10 leads because it visits each website. Cost on your Apify account: $0.03 per lead ($0.024 on Gold). |
| find_uk_business_leadsA | 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. Search UK cities or postcodes for any business type. Use it for UK B2B prospecting. About 1–3 minutes for 10 leads. Cost on your Apify account: $0.05 per lead ($0.04 on Gold). |
| get_advertiser_adsA | Every ad an advertiser runs on Google Search, YouTube, Display and Shopping, from Google's Ads Transparency Center. Returns format, first and last shown dates, days running, headline, ad texts, display URL, landing page, image URLs and YouTube video. Look up by advertiser name, website domain, Transparency Center URL or advertiser ID, and filter by country and format. Use it for competitor ad research and creative inspiration. Newest ads first, up to 200 per call. Cost on your Apify account: $1 per 1,000 ads ($0.80 on Gold and above). |
| get_app_reviewsA | App reviews from the Apple App Store or Google Play: star rating, title, text, date, reviewer, app version, helpful votes and the developer's reply. Accepts store URLs, App Store IDs, Google Play package names or app names. Filter by star rating (e.g. 1–2 stars for complaints), sort by newest or most relevant, in any country and language. Up to 500 reviews per call. Cost on your Apify account: $0.08 per 1,000 reviews ($0.05–$0.07 on paid plans). |
| analyze_app_reviewsA | 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. Accepts store URLs, App Store IDs, Google Play package names or app names. Use it for product research, competitor analysis and release monitoring. About 30–90 seconds per app. Cost on your Apify account: $0.05 per app report ($0.04 on Gold). |
| check_ai_overview_citationsA | 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. Use it for AEO and GEO (answer and generative engine optimisation) audits and monitoring. About 5–20 seconds per keyword. Cost on your Apify account: $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_visibilityA | Ask AI assistants the questions your customers ask and see whether they mention and cite your brand. For each prompt and engine (Google AI Overviews, Gemini with Google Search, Claude with web search) it returns whether the brand is mentioned, its rank among the brands named, whether it is cited, competitors mentioned and cited, sentiment, the snippet about the brand and the sources cited. Use it for AI search visibility and share-of-voice tracking. Each prompt on each engine is one answer checked. Takes 1–3 minutes. Cost on your Apify account: $0.05 per answer checked ($0.04 on Gold) + $0.50 per optional report. |
| get_run_resultsA | Fetch the status and results of an Apify run started by one of this server's tools, for example one that was still running when the tool returned (large lead or AI-visibility searches). Pass the run_id from that tool's output. Free: it only reads results already paid for. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
TDQS
Scored across 18 tools
Most tools target a clearly distinct source and output (flights, hotels, jobs, images, videos, transcripts, ads), and descriptions do a good job separating them. However, three near-duplicate pairs require careful reading: get_app_reviews vs analyze_app_reviews, find_local_businesses vs find_uk_business_leads (UK superset), and check_ai_overview_citations vs check_ai_visibility.
All 18 names use consistent snake_case verb_noun form (search_flights, get_google_trends, find_local_businesses, check_ai_visibility). Verbs vary (search/get/find/check/analyze) but always lead with an action and describe the object, with get_run_results as a sensible utility name.
18 tools is slightly heavy but each maps to a distinct data source or action, so none feels redundant filler. It sits at the upper end of the comfortable 3-15 range without being bloated.
As a multi-source scraping/AI-visibility suite it covers flights, hotels, shopping, news, images, videos, jobs, trends, leads, ads, reviews and async retrieval via get_run_results, so most workflows have a path forward. A generic web-search scraper is the main gap, but it's largely mitigated by the news/images/videos/AI-overview tools.