upAPI MCP Server

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upAPI is answering right now. Last checked 15 min ago. 223 installs a week from npm. Last commit 15 Sep 2026.

All public upAPI operations as MCP tools: web scraping, search, screenshots, PDF, OCR and more.

Installs per day peak 200 · avg 34 · -32% w/w

a month agotoday

Uptime history 32 days of history · worst day 95%

32 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

516 ms

Response time

average over 24h

223

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

Nothing serious here today

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

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 15 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add upapi-mcp --transport http https://app.upapi.io/api/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "upapi-mcp": {
      "url": "https://app.upapi.io/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.upapi-mcp]
url = "https://app.upapi.io/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "upapi-mcp": {
      "url": "https://app.upapi.io/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "upapi-mcp": {
      "url": "https://app.upapi.io/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: UPAPI_API_KEY (upAPI API key (create one at https://app.upapi.io/dashboard/api-keys)), UPAPI_TOOL_MODE (Tool table: full (default), directory (curated named tools) or compact.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://app.upapi.io/api/mcp	streamable-http	sign-in	520 ms	15 min ago

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upAPI — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for upAPI?

The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.

Is upAPI 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 516 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect upAPI?

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. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.

How do you sign in to upAPI?

No API key is involved. upAPI answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.

How fast is upAPI?

It answers our handshake in 516 ms on average, which is faster than 28% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

How many people use upAPI?

The npm package @upapi/mcp was installed 223 times in the last week. Week over week that is -32%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is upAPI open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript 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.