mcpbeat Sign in

Biorxiv MCP Server

local only

Biorxiv MCP Server runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 183 installs a week from npm. Last commit 25 Aug 2026.

Search and retrieve bioRxiv and medRxiv preprints — by DOI, date interval, or keyword — via MCP.

Installs per day peak 404 · avg 48 · +36% w/w
a month agotoday
183
Installs / week
npm · @cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server
4
Stars
0 open issues
25 Aug 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Biorxiv MCP Server 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

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 biorxiv-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "biorxiv-mcp-server": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.biorxiv-mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "biorxiv-mcp-server": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "biorxiv-mcp-server": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: BIORXIV_MAILTO (Contact email for User-Agent header — optional, for polite API access.), BIORXIV_WEB_BASE_URL (bioRxiv website base URL — source of rendered full-text HTML pages for biorxiv_get_fulltext.), MEDRXIV_WEB_BASE_URL (medRxiv website base URL — source of rendered full-text HTML pages for biorxiv_get_fulltext.), MCP_HTTP_HOST (The hostname for the HTTP server.), MCP_HTTP_PORT (The port to run the HTTP server on.), MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATH (The endpoint path for the MCP server.), MCP_AUTH_MODE (Authentication mode to use: 'none', 'jwt', or 'oauth'.), MCP_LOG_LEVEL (Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn').). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

Alternatives to Biorxiv MCP Server

same job, measured the same way
HubSpot Integrations MCP
by centrify-internal

MCP server for the HubSpot Integrations Center HubDB: search and retrieve integration data.

2 tools answering
RTFM
by roomi-fields

The open retrieval layer for AI agents — index code, docs, data. Search via MCP.

9 734 installs/wk local only
Biorxiv
by pipeworx-io

bioRxiv + medRxiv preprint server API

43 tools answering
Project Gutenberg MCP
by bobbyhouse

Read Project Gutenberg books via MCP. Search, fetch metadata, and retrieve text in passages.

local only
Preprint Fulltext
by genecell

bioRxiv/medRxiv/arXiv preprint full text as structured sections for AI agents + search.

36 installs/wk local only
Google Ads Intent MCP
by davidmosiah

Dry-run-first Google Ads search-term intent analyzer and negative-keyword MCP for agents.

142 installs/wk local only
Jobvetta MCP Server
by jobvetta

Search live, vetted India jobs by keyword, location, posting age, and job ID.

2 tools answering
Intermediair Jobs
by intermediair-www

Search and retrieve job postings on Intermediair (read-only).

2 tools answering

Biorxiv MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Biorxiv MCP Server?
Biorxiv MCP Server 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 npm package @cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server was installed 183 times last week.
How do I connect Biorxiv MCP Server?
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 runs locally, so the command pulls @cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Biorxiv MCP Server?
The npm package @cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server was installed 183 times in the last week. Week over week that is +36%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Biorxiv MCP Server open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 4 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.