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Espn runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 743 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 2 Nov 2026.

Model Context Protocol server for live & historical sports stats and odds via ESPN.

Installs per day peak 743 · avg 190 · -41% w/w
a month agotoday
743
Installs / week
pypi · mcp-server-espn
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2 Nov 2026
Last commit
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Apache-2.0
License
Python

Nothing serious here today

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

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add espn -- uvx mcp-server-espn
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "espn": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-espn"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.espn]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcp-server-espn"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "espn": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-espn"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "espn": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-server-espn"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: ESPN_BASE_URL (Optional REST base URL override), ESPN_TIMEOUT_SECONDS (HTTP request timeout in seconds), ESPN_MAX_RETRIES (Maximum retry attempts on HTTP 429 / 5xx), ESPN_MCP_READONLY (Restrict server execution strictly to read-only inspection tools), ESPN_MCP_PROFILE (Server domain profile (full, games, teams, news, readonly)), ESPN_MCP_ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH (Replace flat tool catalog with dynamic search transform), ESPN_MCP_TOOL_SEARCH_BACKEND (Tool Search backend: bm25 (default) or regex).

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answering

Espn — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Espn?
Espn 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 mcp-server-espn was installed 743 times last week.
How do I connect Espn?
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 mcp-server-espn straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Espn?
The pypi package mcp-server-espn was installed 743 times in the last week. Week over week that is -41%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Espn 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.