OpenBusData MCP Server

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OpenBusData runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 113 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 19 Jun 2026.

MCP server for UK Bus Open Data with timetable parsing, journey planning and live tracking.

Installs per day peak 40 · avg 19 · -3% w/w

a month agotoday

113

Installs / week

pypi · openbusdata-mcp

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0 open issues

19 Jun 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

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License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check OpenBusData 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

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add openbusdata -- uvx openbusdata-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openbusdata": {
      "args": [
        "openbusdata-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.openbusdata]
command = "uvx"
args = ["openbusdata-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openbusdata": {
      "args": [
        "openbusdata-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openbusdata": {
      "args": [
        "openbusdata-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: OPENBUS_API_KEY (Your UK Bus Open Data Service API key from https://data.bus-data.dft.gov.uk). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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OpenBusData — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for OpenBusData?

OpenBusData runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package openbusdata-mcp was installed 113 times last week.

How do I connect OpenBusData?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls openbusdata-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use OpenBusData?

The pypi package openbusdata-mcp was installed 113 times in the last week. Week over week that is -3%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is OpenBusData open source?

We cannot say either way: written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.