Fatsecret MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 381 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 20 Oct 2026.
Unofficial, self-hosted MCP server for logging food into a FatSecret food diary through Claude.
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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.
claude mcp add fatsecret-mcp -e 'FATSECRET_CONSUMER_KEY=<FATSECRET_CONSUMER_KEY>' -e 'FATSECRET_CONSUMER_SECRET=<FATSECRET_CONSUMER_SECRET>' -e 'FATSECRET_MCP_SIGNING_KEY=<FATSECRET_MCP_SIGNING_KEY>' -e 'FATSECRET_MCP_USERS=<FATSECRET_MCP_USERS>' -- uvx fatsecret-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"fatsecret-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"fatsecret-mcp"
],
"env": {
"FATSECRET_CONSUMER_KEY": "<FATSECRET_CONSUMER_KEY>",
"FATSECRET_CONSUMER_SECRET": "<FATSECRET_CONSUMER_SECRET>",
"FATSECRET_MCP_SIGNING_KEY": "<FATSECRET_MCP_SIGNING_KEY>",
"FATSECRET_MCP_USERS": "<FATSECRET_MCP_USERS>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.fatsecret-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["fatsecret-mcp"]
env = { FATSECRET_CONSUMER_KEY = "<FATSECRET_CONSUMER_KEY>", FATSECRET_CONSUMER_SECRET = "<FATSECRET_CONSUMER_SECRET>", FATSECRET_MCP_SIGNING_KEY = "<FATSECRET_MCP_SIGNING_KEY>", FATSECRET_MCP_USERS = "<FATSECRET_MCP_USERS>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"fatsecret-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"fatsecret-mcp"
],
"env": {
"FATSECRET_CONSUMER_KEY": "<FATSECRET_CONSUMER_KEY>",
"FATSECRET_CONSUMER_SECRET": "<FATSECRET_CONSUMER_SECRET>",
"FATSECRET_MCP_SIGNING_KEY": "<FATSECRET_MCP_SIGNING_KEY>",
"FATSECRET_MCP_USERS": "<FATSECRET_MCP_USERS>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"fatsecret-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"fatsecret-mcp"
],
"env": {
"FATSECRET_CONSUMER_KEY": "<FATSECRET_CONSUMER_KEY>",
"FATSECRET_CONSUMER_SECRET": "<FATSECRET_CONSUMER_SECRET>",
"FATSECRET_MCP_SIGNING_KEY": "<FATSECRET_MCP_SIGNING_KEY>",
"FATSECRET_MCP_USERS": "<FATSECRET_MCP_USERS>"
}
}
}
}Put your own values in place of
<FATSECRET_CONSUMER_KEY> (Your FatSecret Platform API consumer key), <FATSECRET_CONSUMER_SECRET> (Your FatSecret Platform API consumer secret), <FATSECRET_MCP_SIGNING_KEY> (A random key of at least 32 characters that signs drafts. Keep it across restarts), <FATSECRET_MCP_USERS> (Everyone the server serves, as one JSON line written by `fatsecret-mcp add-user`).
The author’s registry entry marks them as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
FATSECRET_MCP_USER (With more than one person in FATSECRET_MCP_USERS: the id the server acts as).
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