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Placements is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 10 tools. Last commit 5 Oct 2026.

Buy press coverage in 3,800+ vetted media outlets. Price a basket, get a checkout link.

Uptime history 29 days of history · worst day 92%
29 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
10
Tools
read from the server
513 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 5 Oct 2026

What changed 14

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 18 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

27 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for search_outlets
19 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for3 times that day quote_placements, search_outlets
19 Oct 2 tools appeared list_services, quote_service
19 Oct a tool changed version2 times that day
18 Oct 5 tools appeared check_instagram_recovery_path, check_knowledge_panel_readiness, check_review_removability and 2 more
18 Oct a tool changed version
and 2 more, back to 18 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Placements 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 0 min ago.

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

Available tools 10

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

quote
quote_placements
Prices a set of outlets and returns line items, any volume discount, the final total, and a checkout_url. The total matches what the buyer is charged, volume tiers included. It charges nothing and creates no order. checkout_url is the page where the buyer confirms the basket and pays; the card is charged at checkout and refunded if the placement is not published or the turnaround is missed.
quote_service
The current price of 1 service (and of a tier, when it has tiers), its refund terms, who makes the final decision, and start_url: the page where the buyer reviews and pays. It charges nothing. Services priced per case return the free assessment page instead. Never promise the outcome: the platform decides.
instagram
check_instagram_recovery_path
Free and read-only. For the legitimate owner of an Instagram account that was hacked, disabled, locked at a checkpoint, locked by lost 2-factor, or whose email and phone are no longer reachable, returns the official recovery route, the same one as the free checker on essentras.com. Ask only what happened; never the handle, email, phone, password or a code. Returns the route, the owner’s own first step, Instagram’s official help pages with the date they were read, Meta’s position on timing, scam warning signs, and the Essentras recovery service with its current price. Official channels only: no hacking and no account access. Meta decides, and nobody can promise a recovery or a timeline.
knowledge
check_knowledge_panel_readiness
Free and read-only. Scores how ready a person or business is for a Google Knowledge Panel, the same score as the free Entity Readiness Check on essentras.com. Ask the person 11 multiple-choice questions about their sources and what Google shows today (never their name or links): the subject, the panel state, and coverage, quality, wikipedia, wikidata, home, profiles, records, demand, unique. With every answer it returns the score out of 100, the band, each gap with points to gain and the next action, the right next step (claim, edit or fix an existing panel for free, build sources, or the Essentras service with its current price for a strong candidate), and Google sources with read dates. With answers missing it returns the questions still to ask. The score is an Essentras rule of thumb, not a Google metric. Google decides whether to show a panel, and paid placements are paid editorial, not independent coverage.
outlet
get_outlet
Full detail for a single outlet by its id (from a search result), including price, turnaround, authority and audience.
outlets
search_outlets
Searches buyable media placements by budget, authority, geography, topic and link policy. Returns offers with a fixed USD price, turnaround, link disclosure and a stable id that quote_placements accepts. max_price filters the catalogue to a budget.
removal
find_removal_route
Free and read-only. For something about a person that shows in Google (contact details, an ID number, intimate images, doxxing, a false article, old news, a mugshot, a court record, a review, a post, a data broker profile, their own old content, an outdated page, copied work), returns the same plan as the free route finder on essentras.com. Ask only what it is and, where it matters, where the person lives (US, EU, EEA or UK, or elsewhere); never their name or the page address. Returns the route (source, Google policy, law or suppression) and who decides, the steps, the official Google links with the date they were read, the evidence to prepare, a timeline marked official or not, a fit label from Google’s own criteria (not a success rate), letters to send, what the route will not do, a link to the same plan on the website, and the matching Essentras service with its current price. Official channels only. Google, the publisher or the platform decides, and a refund is never a promise of removal.
review
check_review_removability
Free and read-only. Tells a business owner whether a Google review matches one of Google’s named review rules, the same verdict as the free checker on essentras.com. Ask the person for facts only, never the review text, a name or a link: whose review it is, whether the reviewer was a real customer, what the review contains, whether they can show it, and where they are in Google’s process. Returns the verdict (strong match, arguable, or no policy match), Google’s rule with its policy link and the date it was read, where to report, the evidence to attach, Google’s stated timing, the appeal path, report and reply templates, and the Essentras service with its current price only when the page offers it. A genuine negative review gets “No policy match”: Google does not remove a review for being negative, and the tool says so. Google decides every removal.
services
list_services
Every Essentras service beyond single placements (Knowledge Panels, Google review removal, removal from Google, Wikipedia, account recovery and unbans, verification, press plans, AI visibility) with its current USD price or the words "priced per case", refund terms, who decides, and the free checker to run first. Optional category filter.
wikipedia
check_wikipedia_notability
Free and read-only. Tests a subject’s sources against Wikipedia’s notability guidelines (WP:GNG, WP:NCORP, WP:BASIC, WP:CREATIVE), the same verdicts as the free checker on essentras.com. Ask the person what the article would be about, their connection to it, and for each source its type and 5 yes, no or unsure answers (never the outlet, headline, link or the person’s name). Returns a verdict per source (counts, supports facts only, does not count, unclear, counts once) with the Wikipedia rule, its link and the date it was read, an overall band, disclosure duties for a conflict of interest or paid editing, and the Essentras service with its current price only when the band is "Reviewer judgment applies". Press releases, sponsored articles and paid placements, Essentras placements included, never count toward notability. The bands are an Essentras rule of thumb, and volunteer reviewers decide.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://essentras.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 500 ms 0 min ago

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Placements — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Placements do?
It exposes 10 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_instagram_recovery_path, check_knowledge_panel_readiness, check_review_removability, check_wikipedia_notability, find_removal_route, get_outlet and 4 more. 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 Placements 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 513 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Placements?
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 Placements need an API key?
No. Placements completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 10 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Placements?
It answers our handshake in 513 ms on average, which is faster than 23% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Placements open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at essentras.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.