Netcafe Translate MCP Server

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Netcafe Translate is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 7 tools. Last commit 16 Aug 2026.

Translation that never breaks structure: .srt timings, i18n key trees, PDF layout.

Uptime history 80 days of history · worst day 0%

80 days agonow

69.6%

Uptime 24h

64 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

938 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 16 Aug 2026

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 15 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

16 Aug a tool description was rewritten what_can_you_do

15 Aug a tool appeared what_can_you_do

Netcafe Translate does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 49.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add netcafe-translate --transport http 'https://ainetcafe.com/mcp/translate?s=registry'

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

https://ainetcafe.com/mcp/translate?s=registry

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.netcafe-translate]
url = "https://ainetcafe.com/mcp/translate?s=registry"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "netcafe-translate": {
      "url": "https://ainetcafe.com/mcp/translate?s=registry"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "netcafe-translate": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ainetcafe.com/mcp/translate?s=registry"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

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

translate

translate_i18n_json

Translate an i18n JSON locale file, keeping the key structure identical and placeholders ({name}, {{count}}, %s, HTML tags) intact. Pass existing_json to translate only the keys that are missing from it — the incremental sync people usually hand-roll a script for.

translate_pdf

Translate a PDF from a URL while preserving the original layout — formulas, figures and two-column academic typesetting stay intact, unlike ordinary translators that flatten the document. Returns a job_id; poll check_job for the download links (translated-only and bilingual side-by-side). Typically 20-60 seconds for a few pages. Powered by PDFMathTranslate (36k stars) hosted at AI NetCafé. Example — tools/call translate_pdf {"url":"<pdf-url>","target":"zh"} → poll check_job

translate_srt

Translate an .srt subtitle file into another language while keeping every timestamp and cue number byte-identical. Cues are anchored by index and refilled in code, so the timeline cannot drift — the usual failure mode when you hand a whole .srt to a model.

translate_text

Translate text between languages using a self-hosted LibreTranslate engine (fully offline, no big-tech API). For whole PDFs with layout preserved, use translate_pdf instead. Example — GET https://ainetcafe.com/t/translate_text?text=hello+world&to=zh

grammar

check_grammar

Check text for grammar, spelling and style issues in 30+ languages (self-hosted LanguageTool). Returns each issue with a suggested replacement — apply them to produce corrected text. Example — GET https://ainetcafe.com/t/check_grammar?text=Their+going+to+the+park

job

check_job

Get the status or result of a job started by deep_research, translate_pdf, or make_slides. Poll every 15-30 seconds until status is "done" or "error". While work is pending, follow retry_after_seconds and next_action; when complete, prefer structured_result when present. Example — GET https://ainetcafe.com/t/check_job?job_id=<id-from-a-job-tool>

what

what_can_you_do

Describe a task in plain language (any language) and get back exactly which tools on this server do it, with ready-to-run example calls — instead of reading the whole catalogue and guessing. Also returns multi-step recipes when a task needs several tools chained (invoices to a ledger, a bank statement reconciled, a messy CSV turned into a deliverable). Deterministic and free: it calls no model, costs nothing, and never runs out of quota. Call this FIRST when you are not sure what this server offers.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://ainetcafe.com/mcp/translate?s=registry	streamable-http	answering	688 ms	2 min ago

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Netcafe Translate — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Netcafe Translate do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_grammar, check_job, translate_i18n_json, translate_pdf, translate_srt, translate_text and 1 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 Netcafe Translate working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 64 of 92 checks got a reply (69.6%), average response time 938 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Netcafe Translate?

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 Netcafe Translate need an API key?

No. Netcafe Translate completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Netcafe Translate?

It answers our handshake in 938 ms on average, which is faster than 7% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Netcafe Translate open source?

We cannot say either way: written in JavaScript, 1 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.