Forage Shopping MCP Server

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Forage Shopping is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

AI shopping comparison — search 50M+ products, compare prices, find deals

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 99%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

297 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

This one has been quiet for a while

Quiet is not dead — but it is worth knowing when it wakes up, or when someone else takes it over. We watch the repository and tell you either way.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add forage-shopping --transport http https://forageshopping.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://forageshopping.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.forage-shopping]
url = "https://forageshopping.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "forage-shopping": {
      "url": "https://forageshopping.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "forage-shopping": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://forageshopping.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

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

checkout

update_checkout_info

Update a checkout session with buyer information. Provide the information the merchant requested (email, name, shipping address, discount codes). Call this after start_checkout when the merchant indicates what information is still needed. If the response has status 'requires_escalation', share the continue_url with the user so they can complete payment in their browser.

compare

compare_prices

Compare prices for a specific product across multiple merchants. Finds the same product at different retailers and shows price differences.

complete

complete_purchase

Complete a checkout and place the order. Only call this when the checkout status is 'ready_for_complete'. Records the purchase as a conversion in telemetry and ends the attribution session. Returns the order confirmation with order ID and receipt link.

deals

find_deals

Find the best current deals in a product category. Searches for discounted, on-sale, or best-value products.

order

check_order

Check the status of a checkout session or order. Use this after the user has completed an escalation step (e.g. payment in the browser) to see if the checkout can now proceed, or to check on a completed order's status.

products

search_products

Search for products across merchants and return comparison results. Returns structured product listings with prices, merchants, and checkout links. Searches Shopify's global catalogue (50M+ products across all Shopify merchants) and Channel3's affiliate network. Results include direct checkout links.

start

start_checkout

Start a UCP checkout session for a product. Discovers the merchant's UCP capabilities, creates a checkout session, and attaches content attribution data from the current session's search and comparison activity. Returns the checkout status and any information the merchant still needs (email, shipping address, etc).

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://forageshopping.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	345 ms	8 min ago

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Forage Shopping — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Forage Shopping do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_order, compare_prices, complete_purchase, find_deals, search_products, start_checkout and 1 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 Forage Shopping 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 297 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is Forage Shopping still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect Forage Shopping?

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 Forage Shopping need an API key?

No. Forage Shopping completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Forage Shopping?

It answers our handshake in 297 ms on average, which is faster than 48% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.