Qt4 Doc MCP Server runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 102 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 20 Jul 2026.
Offline MCP server for local Qt 4.8, Qt 5, and Qt 6 documentation with full-text search.
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Today is the operative word: we check Qt4 Doc MCP Server every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
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 qt4-doc-mcp-server -e 'QT_DOC_BASE=<QT_DOC_BASE>' -- uvx qt4-doc-mcp-server{
"mcpServers": {
"qt4-doc-mcp-server": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"qt4-doc-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"QT_DOC_BASE": "<QT_DOC_BASE>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.qt4-doc-mcp-server]
command = "uvx"
args = ["qt4-doc-mcp-server"]
env = { QT_DOC_BASE = "<QT_DOC_BASE>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"qt4-doc-mcp-server": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"qt4-doc-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"QT_DOC_BASE": "<QT_DOC_BASE>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"qt4-doc-mcp-server": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"qt4-doc-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"QT_DOC_BASE": "<QT_DOC_BASE>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<QT_DOC_BASE> (Absolute path to a local Qt 4.8, Qt 5, or Qt 6 HTML documentation root (required)).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
QT_DOC_STATE_DIR (Writable directory for the search index and Markdown cache (default: $QT_DOC_BASE/.index; set when the documentation root is read-only)), SERVER_HOST (Server bind address (default: 127.0.0.1)), SERVER_PORT (Server port (default: 8000)).
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