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Handsome Local MCP Server

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Handsome Local is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Search hand-picked websites for plumbers, electricians, roofers and other trades, with screenshots.

Uptime history 24 days of history
24 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
242 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

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

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

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

Available tools 3

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

filters
list_filters
The trades and tags that have published entries on Handsome Local, each with a count, so a search can be built from filters that exist. Cheap; call it before search_websites when unsure what to filter on.
website
get_website
One entry from Handsome Local by its slug (the last part of an entry URL, e.g. gk-plumbing): the whole review paragraph, every tag, the credit, the live site, the entry page and the screenshots. Use after search_websites when the full review matters.
websites
search_websites
Search Handsome Local, a hand-picked gallery of real websites for trades and home services businesses (plumbers, electricians, roofers, builders, heating and HVAC firms, landscapers) in the UK and US. Every entry is a live site chosen by an editor because it is well built and wins work; each comes with a screenshot of the top of the page, a one-sentence summary, its tags and a credit for whoever built it. Filter by trade, region, style, colour, platform, conversion features or typeface, or search free text. Returns the newest matches first. Use it for visual references when designing or building a website for a tradesperson. It does not rate or rank sites and it covers the trades listed only.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://handsomelocal.com/mcp streamable-http answering 256 ms 13 min ago

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Handsome Local — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Handsome Local do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_website, list_filters, search_websites. 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 Handsome Local 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 242 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Handsome Local?
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 Handsome Local need an API key?
No. Handsome Local completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Handsome Local?
It answers our handshake in 242 ms on average, which is faster than 57% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.