Wistia MCP: video hosting and analytics in your AI app

Connect Wistia to your AI app

1. 1Click Connect Wistia free and sign in to Wistia.
2. 2Analytics and search only read. Deleting media or folders and archiving media change your library, so switch them off, even though Wistia keeps deleted media recoverable for a while.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app for last month's analytics on your top video, then open Activity to see the call.

Your Wistia library, through a chat

• Search your account for media, folders, channels and channel episodes.
• Get account-wide or single-video analytics for a date range.
• Import a video from a public URL into a folder.
• Update a video's name, description, tags or thumbnail.
• Manage captions and player customizations.

Your video library, protected

• Switch off the delete media, delete folder and archive tools so nothing leaves your library from a chat.
• Set a policy to warn or block before a folder is made public.
• Activity records every change your AI apps make in Wistia.

What you get with Wistia and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use WistiaClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Wistia through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Wistia tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Wistia tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Wistia. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Create FolderCreate a Wistia folder for organizing media, optionally make it public, and optionally set the specified email as its owner.
• Delete FolderDelete a Wistia folder by hashed ID. This is destructive, but deleted content may remain recoverable for a limited account-dependent window before permanent purge.
• Delete MediaDelete one Wistia media item by hashed ID. This is destructive, but Wistia keeps deleted media recoverable for a limited account-dependent window before permanent purge.
• Get Analytics SummaryReturn account-wide or single-media Wistia performance metrics for an inclusive start date and exclusive end date.
• Get MediaReturn detailed metadata, assets, folder placement, tags, and processing state for one Wistia media item.
• Import Media from URLStart importing a publicly reachable media URL into Wistia, optionally into a folder. The response may be queued; call WISTIA_GET_MEDIA until its status is ready before using the media.
• Search ContentSearch the connected Wistia account for media, folders, subfolders, channels, and channel episodes by text and optional filters.
• Set Media Archived StateArchive one or more media items, or restore archived media into a destination folder, and wait for Wistia's background job to finish. Requires the connected account to have access to Wistia's Archivin
• Update FolderUpdate a Wistia folder's name, description, public visibility, or anonymous transfer settings.
• Update MediaUpdate a Wistia media item's name, description, tags, or still image reference. Wistia returns descriptions as normalized HTML.