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BotFriendly MCP Server

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BotFriendly is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 7 tools.

Directory of APIs, merchants, and tools AI agents can actually use.

Uptime history 74 days of history · worst day 0%
74 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 184 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
80 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 8

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 18 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

8 Oct 2 tool descriptions were rewritten get_protocol_stats, submit_service
8 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for search_services, submit_service
6 Oct a tool description was rewritten submit_service
18 Sep 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for search_services, submit_service
18 Sep a tool description was rewritten list_categories

BotFriendly does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add botfriendly --transport http https://www.botfriendly.xyz/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://www.botfriendly.xyz/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.botfriendly]
url = "https://www.botfriendly.xyz/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "botfriendly": {
      "url": "https://www.botfriendly.xyz/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "botfriendly": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.botfriendly.xyz/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This server publishes 1 more address. The block above uses the one we reach during checks; the full list is under Endpoints below, and the author may intend a particular one for your client.

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.

categories
list_categories
List every BotFriendly category with its id (the search_services category value), human label, aliases (older slugs still accepted), description and service count.
featured
get_featured
Get site-wide featured/promoted services (max 3). These are paid placements clearly marked as ads.
protocol
get_protocol_stats
Get every protocol on botfriendly.xyz/protocols with adoption stats: how agents call a service and prove who sent them (MCP, OpenAPI, A2A, XAA) and the agent payment, authorization, and commerce protocols (x402, mpp, l402, ap2, tap, agent-pay, ace, acp, ucp, actp, icc). Each entry carries its sponsor, layer, spec URL, and count — how many listed services support it, or null for protocols that aren't a listing attribute (A2A, XAA).
service
get_service
Get full details for a specific service by its slug, including all protocol support, URLs, auth method, billing, and metadata.
services
search_services
Search the BotFriendly directory for bot-friendly services, APIs, and tools that AI agents can use. Filter by category, payment/commerce protocol support (x402, MPP, L402, AP2, TAP, Agent Pay, ACE, ACP, UCP, ACTP, ICC), auth method, and more. Results may start with up to 3 promoted listings (paid ads) pinned to the top — site-wide ads on unfiltered searches, category ads on category searches — clearly marked with promoted:true and ad:true. Use promoted=false to exclude ads.
site
check_site
Score how bot-friendly a website is (0-100). Fetches the site the way an agent would — no JavaScript, no cookies — and checks access (reachability, HTTPS, robots.txt, AI crawlers allowed, real 404s), content without JavaScript (H1, 500+ chars of raw text, metadata, JSON-LD), and machine discovery (llms.txt, sitemap, OpenAPI spec or ai-plugin.json), with evidence and fix advice per check. Set format to 'prompt' to instead get a ready-to-paste coding-agent prompt that fixes every failed finding. Rate limited to 6 checks per minute per caller; each check takes a few seconds.
submit
submit_service
Submit a service to the BotFriendly directory. There is no review queue: each interface URL must be on the service's own domain, or linked from the service's own site, and is fetched during the call; the listing publishes immediately if its MCP server, OpenAPI spec or API completes a handshake — one of has_mcp_server, has_openapi_spec or has_api is required; llms.txt, skill files and feeds only add badges. The url must be the product, not an article (/blog/, /news/ and similar are rejected), and a domain can add at most 2 listings a day and 3 in total. Every listing needs an icon — pass icon_url, or leave it out and the service's own site is checked for one.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.botfriendly.xyz/api/mcp streamable-http answering 80 ms 7 min ago
https://mcp.botfriendly.xyz streamable-http answering 85 ms 7 min ago

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BotFriendly — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can BotFriendly do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_site, get_featured, get_protocol_stats, get_service, list_categories, search_services 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 BotFriendly working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 184 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 80 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists BotFriendly as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect BotFriendly?
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 BotFriendly need an API key?
No. BotFriendly 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.