BotFriendly MCP Server

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BotFriendly is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 7 tools.

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

Uptime history 5 days of history

5 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

296 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check BotFriendly 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

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add botfriendly --transport http https://www.botfriendly.xyz/api/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "botfriendly": {
      "url": "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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "botfriendly": {
      "url": "https://www.botfriendly.xyz/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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 all BotFriendly categories with descriptions and service counts.

featured

get_featured

Get site-wide featured/promoted services (max 3). These are paid placements clearly marked as ads.

protocol

get_protocol_stats

Get adoption stats for every protocol BotFriendly tracks: the machine-readable interfaces (MCP, OpenAPI) 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 how many listed services support it.

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 and is fetched during the call, and the listing publishes immediately if one answers. Every listing needs an icon — pass icon_url, or leave it out and the service's own site is checked for one.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.botfriendly.xyz/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	278 ms	0 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 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 296 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

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 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 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.

How fast is BotFriendly?

It answers our handshake in 296 ms on average, which is faster than 58% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.