Vendor Legit Check MCP Server

by dropwatchhq Your server? Claim it

answering

Vendor Legit Check is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 1 tools.

Screen a vendor, store, or group-buy for legitimacy: reputation, red flags, Reddit sentiment.

Uptime history 47 days of history

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

77 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Vendor Legit Check 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 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add legit-check --transport http https://legit.dropwatchhq.com/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "legit-check": {
      "url": "https://legit.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.legit-check]
url = "https://legit.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "legit-check": {
      "url": "https://legit.dropwatchhq.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "legit-check": {
      "url": "https://legit.dropwatchhq.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.

vendor

vendor_legit_check

Screen a vendor, store, or group-buy (by name or URL) for legitimacy before paying. Returns a reputation read, a red-flag checklist (e.g. no MOQ disclosed, brand-new vendor), and Reddit community sentiment. Use this to assess scam/non-delivery risk for a hobby/collectibles purchase or group buy.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://legit.dropwatchhq.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	80 ms	5 min ago

Alternatives to Vendor Legit Check

same job, measured the same way

RedReplier

by redreplier

Monitor Reddit, HN, X, and Bluesky mentions and triage AI-scored leads from your agent.

21 tools answering

Reddit MCP Server

by thenextgennexus

Post + comment + subreddit search with comment-level depth for sentiment work.

2 tools answering

Smart Crawler

by shulex-voc

E-commerce competitor intelligence, VOC sentiment, Amazon ASIN analysis, Reddit growth playbooks.

answering

Social Pulse

by dropwatchhq

Real-time Reddit + Hacker News sensing: trending, mention velocity, sentiment, emerging terms.

4 tools answering

Signalpipe

by abyousef739

Agentic Reddit/HN buying-signal detection for Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf via MCP.

answering

Mentiondrop

by mentiondrop

AI-triaged brand, competitor and demand mentions from Reddit, Google News and search.

11 tools answering

Buska

by buska

Social listening for AI agents: search mentions, pull scored buying signals, score leads

answering

Reddit Trends MCP

by trendsmcp

Reddit trend data over time, with growth for any topic or brand. Free key at trendsmcp.ai

4 tools answering

Vendor Legit Check — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Vendor Legit Check do?

It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: vendor_legit_check. 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 Vendor Legit Check working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 77 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Vendor Legit Check?

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 Vendor Legit Check need an API key?

No. Vendor Legit Check 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.

How fast is Vendor Legit Check?

It answers our handshake in 77 ms on average, which is faster than 86% 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.