Link Preview API MCP Server

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Link Preview API is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 1 tools. Last commit 27 Aug 2026.

Pay-per-call Open Graph/link preview metadata for AI agents. $0.01 USDC per call, no signup.

Uptime history 26 days of history · worst day 0%

26 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

286 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 27 Aug 2026

Link Preview API 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.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add link-preview-api --transport http https://link-preview-api-z4nf.onrender.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "link-preview-api": {
      "url": "https://link-preview-api-z4nf.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.link-preview-api]
url = "https://link-preview-api-z4nf.onrender.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "link-preview-api": {
      "url": "https://link-preview-api-z4nf.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "link-preview-api": {
      "url": "https://link-preview-api-z4nf.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 1

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

preview

preview_url

Fetch Open Graph / meta metadata for a public URL. Costs $0.01 USDC on Base.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://link-preview-api-z4nf.onrender.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	286 ms	8 min ago

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Link Preview API — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Link Preview API do?

It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: preview_url. 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 Link Preview API working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 286 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Link Preview API 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 Link Preview API?

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 Link Preview API need an API key?

No. Link Preview API completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

Is Link Preview API open source?

We cannot say either way: written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.