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BuyNearby MCP Server

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BuyNearby is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.

Shop BuyNearby's local Calgary marketplace, book couriers, and request personal shopping runs.

Uptime history 15 days of history
15 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
8
Tools
read from the server
650 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 3

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 12 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

18 Sep a tool appeared get_todays_deals
12 Sep a tool description was rewritten book_courier
12 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for book_courier

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check BuyNearby every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://buynearby.store/api/v1/mcp-server.php
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://buynearby.store/api/v1/mcp-server.php"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://buynearby.store/api/v1/mcp-server.php"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://buynearby.store/api/v1/mcp-server.php"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://buynearby.store/api/v1/mcp-server.php"
    }
  }
}

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.

place
place_cart_order
Shop BuyNearby's real marketplace catalog: add multiple products (from one store or several) to a cart and check out as ONE real order in a single call - price/stock for every item is looked up from the live catalog server-side (you cannot supply your own price). Use this instead of place_order whenever the user wants more than one item, or items from different stores. Uses the exact same tax/delivery-fee/coupon pricing engine as the human checkout page, so the total you quote back to the user is authoritative. Creates a REAL order immediately - not a draft - visible right away in the store's dashboard for confirmation. Payment is a pre-authorization link texted/emailed to the customer (card held, not charged) - the actual charge happens once the store confirms.
place_order
Place an order for a single product from BuyNearby's own catalog (stores running the BuyNearby POS - stock/price are live and guaranteed). Requires API key authentication. A store-scoped partner key can only order products from its own store. Payment is a pre-authorization link texted/emailed to the customer (card is held, not charged) - the actual charge happens once the store confirms the order, not at booking time.
book
book_courier
Get a courier price quote, book a REAL point-to-point courier/parcel delivery in Calgary, check a booking's status, or cancel one - no BuyNearby account needed. action:'book' immediately creates the booking and auto-assigns a driver if one is available, exactly like a human finishing the form at buynearby.store/courier-book.php; the response's booking_ref is a real, live booking, not a draft. Payment is a link texted to the customer afterward (this call never charges a card). Use action:'quote' first if you just need a price before the user has decided to book. Use action:'status' to check on an existing booking, and action:'cancel' to self-cancel one (only while it's still 'pending' or 'assigned' — once a driver has picked up the package, direct the customer to support instead).
products
search_products
Search for products available at local Calgary stores. Returns product name, store, price, stock level, and store categories. Use this when the user asks about finding, buying, or locating any product locally.
shop
shop_and_deliver
Book a REAL personal-shopper run - a BuyNearby driver goes into a named physical store, shops from the given item list, and delivers it. Works even for stores that aren't BuyNearby partners (set needs_verification expectations: our team calls ahead to confirm stock first for those). This immediately creates the order, exactly like a customer finishing the Shop & Deliver chat flow on buynearby.store - it is not a draft. Estimate each item's price yourself (or via search_products if it's a known BuyNearby-catalog item) since the customer is only charged the driver's actual receipt total afterward, not this estimate.
stock
check_stock
Check live stock level for a specific product. Optionally filter by store. If the caller's API key is a store-scoped partner key, the result is limited to that key's own store regardless of store_id.
stores
get_stores
Get a list of local stores in Calgary with location info.
todays
get_todays_deals
Get today's real discounted products and active flash deals — products currently priced below their regular price, and time-limited flash deals. This is the actual sale/discount data; search_products has no discount flag so a text search for "sale" or "deals" won't find this.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://buynearby.store/api/v1/mcp-server.php streamable-http answering 796 ms 10 min ago

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BuyNearby — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can BuyNearby do?
It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: book_courier, check_stock, get_stores, get_todays_deals, place_cart_order, place_order 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 BuyNearby 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 650 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect BuyNearby?
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 BuyNearby need an API key?
No. BuyNearby 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 BuyNearby?
It answers our handshake in 650 ms on average, which is faster than 19% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.