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Whitetape MCP Server

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Whitetape runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 771 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 6 Nov 2026.

US building permits as rows with the contractor of record. Free search; 7 cents a row, no account.

Installs per day peak 676 · avg 25
a month agotoday
771
Installs / week
pypi · whitetape
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6 Nov 2026
Last commit
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MIT
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Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Whitetape 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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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add whitetape -- uvx whitetape
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whitetape": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "whitetape"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.whitetape]
command = "uvx"
args = ["whitetape"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whitetape": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "whitetape"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "whitetape": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "whitetape"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: WHITETAPE_CREDIT (Optional. A prepaid link token from https://whitetape.io/credit/ so paid rows come off your balance; without it the ten free rows a month answer).

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Whitetape — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Whitetape?
Whitetape runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package whitetape was installed 771 times last week.
How do I connect Whitetape?
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 runs locally, so the command pulls whitetape straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Whitetape?
The pypi package whitetape was installed 771 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Whitetape open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.