John's Essentials is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 144 tools.
144 deterministic file tools: PDF, image, media, convert, analyze. Connect in one click (OAuth).
Today is the operative word: we check John's Essentials every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.
claude mcp add johns-essentials --transport http https://api.johnsessentials.com/mcp/messages
{
"mcpServers": {
"johns-essentials": {
"url": "https://api.johnsessentials.com/mcp/messages"
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.johns-essentials]
url = "https://api.johnsessentials.com/mcp/messages"
{
"mcpServers": {
"johns-essentials": {
"url": "https://api.johnsessentials.com/mcp/messages"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"johns-essentials": {
"url": "https://api.johnsessentials.com/mcp/messages"
}
}
}
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pdf_compress
pdf_crop
pdf_delete_pages
pdf_excel_to_pdf
pdf_excel_to_pdf_batch
pdf_excel_to_pdf_inspect
pdf_extract_pages
pdf_file_info
pdf_flatten
pdf_flatten_batch
pdf_get_metadata
pdf_grayscale
pdf_header_footer
pdf_html_to_pdf
pdf_images_to_pdf
pdf_interleave
pdf_merge
pdf_ocr
pdf_page_count
pdf_page_numbers
pdf_pptx_to_pdf
pdf_protect
pdf_remove_metadata
pdf_remove_watermark
pdf_reorder
pdf_repair
pdf_reverse
pdf_rotate
pdf_rtf_to_pdf
pdf_set_metadata
pdf_split
pdf_thumbnails
pdf_to_excel
pdf_to_excel_batch
pdf_to_excel_inspect
pdf_to_images
pdf_to_images_batch
pdf_to_pdfa
pdf_to_text
pdf_to_word
pdf_txt_to_pdf
pdf_unlock
pdf_watermark
photo_bg_remover
photo_collage
photo_collage_animated
photo_collage_mosaic
photo_color_adjuster
photo_compress
photo_compress_to_size
photo_crop
photo_editor
photo_exif_viewer
photo_face_blur
photo_face_detect
photo_flip_rotate
photo_format_converter
photo_image_diff
photo_image_overlay
photo_image_splitter
photo_meme_generator
photo_noise_reducer
photo_resize
photo_shadow_adder
photo_svg_to_png
photo_to_text
photo_upscaler
photo_watermark
analyze_audio
analyze_color_palette
analyze_csv
analyze_duplicate_detector
analyze_encoding_detector
analyze_file
analyze_file_diff
analyze_font_detector
analyze_grammar_check
analyze_grammar_check_batch
analyze_hash
analyze_image_quality
analyze_image_similarity
analyze_link_extractor
analyze_metadata
analyze_pdf_inspector
analyze_readability
analyze_ssl
analyze_video
analyze_word_count
analyze_word_frequency
convert_archive
convert_batch
convert_chain
convert_contact
convert_data
convert_document
convert_ebook
convert_file
convert_geo
convert_jpg_to_pdf
convert_parquet
convert_sqlite
convert_text
convert_unit_convert
convert_url_to_pdf
convert_video
convert_word_to_pdf
generate_ascii_art
generate_barcode
generate_business_card
generate_certificate
generate_favicon
generate_hash
generate_invoice
generate_lorem_ipsum
generate_password
generate_placeholder_image
generate_qr_code
octopus_delete
octopus_list
octopus_make_folder
octopus_mkdir
octopus_move
octopus_move_file
octopus_read
octopus_search
octopus_search_meta
octopus_write
media_add_watermark
media_compress_video
media_extract_audio
media_extract_frames
media_merge_audio
media_mute_video
media_trim_audio
media_trim_video
web_extract_table
web_fetch
web_scrape_page
esign_place
esign_prepare
chatwithyourpdf
describe_image
email_file
share_create
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://api.johnsessentials.com/mcp/messages | streamable-http | sign-in | 256 ms | 11 min ago |
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