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RU Books MCP Server

io.github.books-service/ru-books
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RU Books MCP is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.

MCP server for Russian books search, details, and recommendation candidates.

Uptime history 41 hours of history
41 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
8
Tools
read from the server
246 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add ru-books --transport http https://knigochit.ru/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ru-books": {
      "url": "https://knigochit.ru/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.ru-books]
url = "https://knigochit.ru/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ru-books": {
      "url": "https://knigochit.ru/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ru-books": {
      "url": "https://knigochit.ru/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.

books
books_by_author
Browse books by author without free-text query.
books_by_format
Browse books by format without free-text query.
books_by_genre
Browse books by genre without free-text query.
books_by_language
Browse books by language without free-text query.
books_search
Search books in catalog by free-text query and pagination. For browse scenarios use dedicated tools (books_by_genre/author/language/format).
books_without_series
Browse books that are not part of a series.
book
book_details
Get detailed catalog card by book_id.
recommendation
recommendation_candidates
Get candidate books for agent-side recommendation.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://knigochit.ru/mcp streamable-http answering 348 ms 12 min ago

RU Books MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can RU Books MCP do?
It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: book_details, books_by_author, books_by_format, books_by_genre, books_by_language, books_search 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 RU Books MCP 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 246 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect RU Books MCP?
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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does RU Books MCP need an API key?
No. RU Books MCP 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 RU Books MCP?
It answers our handshake in 246 ms on average, which is faster than 54% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.