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UK Data: Spreadsheets and PDFs MCP Server

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UK Data: Spreadsheets and PDFs is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Write Excel .xlsx from rows, read spreadsheets or CSV from a URL, extract text from PDFs

Uptime history 69 hours of history
69 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
106 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check UK Data: Spreadsheets and PDFs 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

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

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

Available tools 3

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

make
make_xlsx
Rows (or several named sheets) to an Excel .xlsx file with a download URL. (cost: 3 credits)
pdf
pdf_to_text
Fetch a PDF from a URL and extract its text, per page, optionally only some pages (e.g. "1-3,7"). (cost: 3 credits)
spreadsheet
read_spreadsheet
Fetch an .xlsx, .xls, .ods or .csv from a URL and return the rows of a sheet as JSON. (cost: 2 credits)

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/spreadsheets-pdf streamable-http answering 73 ms 8 min ago

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UK Data: Spreadsheets and PDFs — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can UK Data: Spreadsheets and PDFs do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: make_xlsx, pdf_to_text, read_spreadsheet. 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 UK Data: Spreadsheets and PDFs 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 106 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect UK Data: Spreadsheets and PDFs?
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 UK Data: Spreadsheets and PDFs need an API key?
No. UK Data: Spreadsheets and PDFs completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is UK Data: Spreadsheets and PDFs?
It answers our handshake in 106 ms on average, which is faster than 93% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.