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pline.ai MCP Server

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pline.ai runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 10 Oct 2026.

Scrape, crawl, batch-scrape, map, and search the web through the hosted pline.ai API.

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Installs / week
npm · pline-api
0
Stars
0 open issues
10 Oct 2026
Last commit
from GitHub
MIT
License
Rust

What the code does

We read the source, 1 h ago · rules ccca72095570

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

  return path.join(root, pkg.version, info.key);

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This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: PLINE_BASE_URL (Public HTTPS base URL of the pline.ai API (https://apix.pline.ai/v1).), PLINE_API_KEY (Your own pline.ai API key. Sent to the API as the x-api-key header.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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pline.ai — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for pline.ai?
pline.ai 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 pline-api.
How do I connect pline.ai?
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 pline-api straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
Is pline.ai open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Rust 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.