Fanar MCP Server

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Fanar runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 173 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 20 Oct 2026.

Fanar (QCRI) for MCP: cited Islamic Q&A, Qur'an and hadith checks, Arabic translation and speech

Installs per day peak 335 · avg 36 · +20% w/w

a month agotoday

173

Installs / week

pypi · fanar-mcp

Stars

0 open issues

20 Oct 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

Apache-2.0

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Fanar 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 fanar-mcp -e 'FANAR_API_KEY=<FANAR_API_KEY>' -- uvx fanar-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fanar-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "fanar-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FANAR_API_KEY": "<FANAR_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.fanar-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["fanar-mcp"]
env = { FANAR_API_KEY = "<FANAR_API_KEY>" }

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fanar-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "fanar-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FANAR_API_KEY": "<FANAR_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "fanar-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "fanar-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FANAR_API_KEY": "<FANAR_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Put your own value in place of <FANAR_API_KEY> (Your Fanar API key, requested at https://api.fanar.qa/request). The author’s registry entry marks it as required.

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Fanar — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Fanar?

Fanar 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 fanar-mcp was installed 173 times last week.

How do I connect Fanar?

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 runs locally, so the command pulls fanar-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Fanar?

The pypi package fanar-mcp was installed 173 times in the last week. Week over week that is +20%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Fanar open source?

Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.