GuideDoc Documentary Database MCP Server

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answering

GuideDoc Documentary Database is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Search public documentary film reference pages and check which titles stream on GuideDoc.

Uptime history 4 days of history

4 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

217 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check GuideDoc Documentary Database 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 6 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add documentary-database --transport http https://guidedoc.tv/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "documentary-database": {
      "url": "https://guidedoc.tv/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.documentary-database]
url = "https://guidedoc.tv/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "documentary-database": {
      "url": "https://guidedoc.tv/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "documentary-database": {
      "url": "https://guidedoc.tv/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

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

fetch

fetch

Use this after search to read the public film page and cite its canonical GuideDoc URL. It gives a documentary's verified page details and GuideDoc streaming status; it does not provide private records or availability on other services. Args: id: Exact GuideDoc film URL returned as `id` by search.

search

Use this when someone seeks documentary films by title, director, topic or keyword. Search GuideDoc's public film database, including reference films that cannot currently be streamed. Do not use for fiction, private GuideDoc records or streaming availability outside GuideDoc. Args: query: Documentary title, director, topic or keyword; for example "Senna" or "climate change".

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://guidedoc.tv/mcp	streamable-http	answering	270 ms	6 min ago

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GuideDoc Documentary Database — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can GuideDoc Documentary Database do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: fetch, search. 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 GuideDoc Documentary Database 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 217 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect GuideDoc Documentary Database?

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 GuideDoc Documentary Database need an API key?

No. GuideDoc Documentary Database completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is GuideDoc Documentary Database?

It answers our handshake in 217 ms on average, which is faster than 63% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.