Catalog MCP Server

by 1001locals Your server? Claim it

answering

Catalog is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.

Search & add local tours and experiences (Italy/EU). Operators: first 100 bookings free, then 5%.

Uptime history 90 days of history · worst day 92%

90 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

199 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 20 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

20 Sep a tool description was rewritten submit_experience

20 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for submit_experience

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Catalog every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add catalog --transport http https://api.1001locals.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://api.1001locals.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.catalog]
url = "https://api.1001locals.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catalog": {
      "url": "https://api.1001locals.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "catalog": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.1001locals.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

categories

list_categories

List experience categories in the 1001locals catalog.

cities

list_cities

List cities available in the 1001locals catalog.

countries

list_countries

List countries available in the 1001locals catalog.

experience

get_experience

Get full details of one experience by its id.

experiences

search_experiences

Search the 1001locals catalog of local tours & experiences by country, city, category and/or free-text query.

offer

get_offer

Get 1001locals' operator offer and pricing: new operators get their first 100 bookings free, then a flat 5% commission forever — the cheapest tours marketplace.

submission

get_submission_schema

Describe how to add an operator/experience to 1001locals: required and optional fields, allowed categories, the free-100-then-5% offer, and the moderation flow. Call this before submit_experience.

submit

submit_experience

Add a supplier/operator and one of their experiences or services (with price) to 1001locals — any local service for travelers, in any country worldwide. One call creates the operator, the listing and its price. New operators get their first 100 bookings free, then a flat 5% commission forever. No account needed, but a real, working business email is required (the domain is DNS-verified at submission). The listing is created as in_review and appears in the public catalog after moderation. Call get_submission_schema (and list_categories) first. Returns a preview_url.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.1001locals.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	261 ms	11 min ago

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Catalog — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Catalog do?

It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_experience, get_offer, get_submission_schema, list_categories, list_cities, list_countries and 2 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Catalog working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 199 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Catalog?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Catalog need an API key?

No. Catalog completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Catalog?

It answers our handshake in 199 ms on average, which is faster than 71% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.