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JoinTheDeal MCP Server

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JoinTheDeal is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Search Southern California home deals and group buys. Read-only, no login.

Uptime history 43 hours of history
43 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
640 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 8

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 11 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

11 Nov 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_deal, request_group_deal, search_deals
11 Nov 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for request_group_deal, search_deals
11 Nov a tool changed version2 times that day
11 Nov a tool appeared search_requests
and 1 more, back to 11 November 2026

Nothing serious here today

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

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

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

Available tools 5

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

categories
list_categories
Categories and sellers that currently have deals, with counts, and when the data was last updated.
deal
get_deal
Full details of one deal by its id (from search_deals). Group deals include goal, joined (paid participants), deal window, what is included, region, payment terms (payment_short, deposit_text) and JoinTheDeal's own public-low price check when available.
deals
search_deals
Search JoinTheDeal: group deals sold by JoinTheDeal (with goal, joined count, deal window, payment terms), requested deals (people gathering, no price yet) and Deal Finder offers from other sellers (comparison reference only). Results come in that order. Filter by keywords, category, event, seller and price range. If nothing of JoinTheDeal matches (jtd_match=false) the response carries request_url for the user to start a request.
request
request_group_deal
Get the link to JoinTheDeal's request form for a product the user wants, and see first whether the same item is already requested or on sale as a group deal (then the user should join that instead). This tool does not submit anything and takes no personal information: the user opens the link and fills in the form themselves. When enough people back the same item with a refundable deposit, JoinTheDeal asks the seller for a group price.
requests
search_requests
Requested deals: items shoppers asked JoinTheDeal to make a group deal for. Shows how many are waiting, how many paid a refundable deposit, the deposit goal and deadline, and the stage (requested / checking = asking the seller / open / closed). No price until a deal opens. No personal data.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://jointhedeal.com/mcp streamable-http answering 592 ms 12 min ago

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JoinTheDeal — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can JoinTheDeal do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_deal, list_categories, request_group_deal, search_deals, search_requests. 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 JoinTheDeal 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 640 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect JoinTheDeal?
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 JoinTheDeal need an API key?
No. JoinTheDeal completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is JoinTheDeal?
It answers our handshake in 640 ms on average, which is faster than 15% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.