Find your videos
Browse the videos in your Brightcove account and find the content you need, without leaving your AI assistant.
Brightcove MCP: Connect your AI assistant 
Connect your AI assistant to Brightcove. Manage videos, metadata, playlists, folders, analytics, live video and players — on any account you can access.
Update metadata
Keep video details up to date. Ask your assistant to update metadata and add tags to your Brightcove videos.
Organize playlists
Explore the videos in a playlist and see how your content is organized, all from your AI assistant.
Explore analytics
Explore your video analytics through your AI assistant and bring performance data into your conversations.
Browse folders
Browse your Brightcove folders and find the videos stored in each campaign or project, all from your AI assistant.
Manage live video
See the live events in your Brightcove account and explore your event list without leaving your AI assistant.
Manage players
Explore the players in your Brightcove account and see the playback configurations available to you.
Quickstart: how to set up Brightcove MCP
Step 1: Prepare your account
Enable MCP on your account
Ask your Brightcove account team to enable it. Brightcove Support handles the setup for you.
Choose who has access
Manage who can and can’t use MCP in your Brightcove admin panel.
Step 2: Connect your assistant
ChatGPT
Explore Brightcove videos and analytics in ChatGPT. Pro connections are read-only. Get ChatGPT.
Claude
Explore and manage your Brightcove account with Claude. Get Claude.
Claude Code
Work with Brightcove alongside your projects in Claude Code. Get Claude Code.
Codex
Connect Brightcove to the video workflows you build with Codex. Get Codex.
GitHub Copilot
Bring your Brightcove account into your Copilot workspace. Get GitHub Copilot.
Cursor
Use your Brightcove tools without leaving your Cursor project. Get Cursor.
Prefer manual setup?
Add this URL as a remote MCP server in your assistant.
https://mcp.brightcove.com/mcpStep 3: Sign in to Brightcove
Use your Brightcove credentials
When prompted, sign in with your Brightcove username and password to authorize the connection.
No API keys needed
Connect with OAuth. You don’t need to create or copy an API key.
FAQ
Yes. When you connect, you can sign in with Okta, SSO, or your Brightcove username and password.
MCP works within the user's existing permissions and cannot access anything the user cannot. Approval is handled per tool call, so each action is confirmed individually — though some clients can skip approval prompts depending on their settings.
Yes, admins can restrict access to MCP by removing the relevant permission from specific roles in the Admin module. Any user whose role lacks that permission cannot access it.
Check that MCP is enabled on your account and use your Brightcove username and password. Still stuck? Remove the server, add it again, and sign in.
Yes. Brightcove MCP works with any AI tool that supports the MCP standard. To connect it, add https://mcp.brightcove.com/mcp as a remote MCP server and follow your tool’s setup documentation.