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ThabangVision MCP Server

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ThabangVision is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

Rent camera and production gear in South Africa and find ID-checked creators.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 22 days of history · worst day 4%
22 days agonow
26.1%
Uptime 24h
24 of 92 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
1129 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

ThabangVision does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 9.7% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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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 4 min ago.

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

Available tools 7

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

gear
get_gear
Full details of one rental item by its id or slug (from search_gear): price per day in ZAR, deposit, what comes with it, and the page URL to book.
search_gear
Search camera, lens, lighting, sound and other production gear for hire. Optional filters: category (a slug from list_categories), city (a South African city), and start_date/end_date (YYYY-MM-DD) to keep only items free on those dates. Returns prices in ZAR per day and the page URL to book.
categories
list_categories
The gear categories that have stock (with item counts) and the studio categories for shoots (with creator counts).
creator
get_creator
A creator profile by handle (from search_creators): what they do, where they are based, their rate in ZAR and the profile URL to book.
creators
search_creators
Search ID-checked photographers, videographers and other creators open for bookings. Optional filters: category (a studio category slug from list_categories, or a specialisation like Photography) and city. Returns hourly rates in ZAR and the profile URL to book.
how
how_to_book
How to rent gear or book a creator: the steps, notice needed, deposit, ID check, collection and delivery, cancelling, and how to pay. Booking itself happens on the website.
tools
list_tools
Ubunye Apps: free, open source apps for photo and film, with download links, the browser version and the source code.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.thabangvision.com/mcp streamable-http answering 882 ms 4 min ago

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ThabangVision — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can ThabangVision do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_creator, get_gear, how_to_book, list_categories, list_tools, search_creators and 1 more. 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 ThabangVision working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 24 of 92 checks got a reply (26.1%), average response time 1129 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is ThabangVision still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect ThabangVision?
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 ThabangVision need an API key?
No. ThabangVision completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is ThabangVision?
It answers our handshake in 1129 ms on average, which is faster than 6% 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.