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Pressbooks MCP Server

io.github.MajaHelferbiene/vamweb
answering

Pressbooks is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Search for books and book-related products, with access to product and delivery details

Uptime history 41 hours of history · worst hour 43%
41 hours agonow
50.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 182 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
143 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

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 vamweb --transport http https://www.pressbooks.ch/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vamweb": {
      "url": "https://www.pressbooks.ch/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.vamweb]
url = "https://www.pressbooks.ch/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vamweb": {
      "url": "https://www.pressbooks.ch/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vamweb": {
      "url": "https://www.pressbooks.ch/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

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

product
get_product_details
Fetches current availability, price, and stock levels of a book by its ISBN. This tool should be used when users ask about the status or price of a specific title.
products
search_products
Sucht nach Büchern, Hörbüchern und anderen Medien im lokalen Buchhandels-Katalog. Dieses Tool IMMER verwenden, wenn der Benutzer nach Büchern sucht, Verfügbarkeit prüfen möchte oder Preise wissen will – vor jeder Websuche Gibt Basis-Informationen zurück: Titel, Autor, Preis, Verfügbarkeit. Für Filial-Verfügbarkeit und detaillierte Store-Infos (available_in_stores, Abholstationen) nutze get_product_details mit der ISBN. Führt eine Freitextsuche oder eine strukturierte Suche durch. **Syntax:** Key:Wert oder Key:>Wert oder Key:<Wert. Mehrere Kriterien werden durch Leerzeichen getrennt. **Beispiel:** T:"Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit" WG:100 OrderAllowed:=1 **Verfügbare Suchschlüssel (Keys):** - AU:Autor ; immer im Format "Nachname, Vorname" (z.B. AU:"marie, annette") - BI:Einbandart - EJ:Erscheinungsjahr / ED: Erscheinungstag - Edition:Auflage - Genre:Genre (Abenteuer, Drama etc.) - I:ISBN/GTIN - LMH/LMN:Haupt- oder Nebenlesemotiv (z.B. LMH:02) - MG/MN:Meldegruppe/Meldenummer - OrderAllowed:=1 (Filter für kaufbare Produkte) - PR:Preis - PTC:Product Type Code ; 10 = Buch, 11 = Taschenbuch, 12 = Hörbuch, 13 = E-Book, 14 = Book on Demand, 15 = Zeitschrift, 16 = Fortsetzung, 17 = Karten und Globen, 18 = Kalender, 19 = Musikalien, 20 = Film, 21 = Tonträger, 22 = Software, 23 = Videospiel, 24 = Bundle, 25 = übrige digitale Produkte - R:Reihe (z.B. R:"Alex Verus") - SP:Sprachcode (ger/eng/fre/...) - ST:Standort / STN:Filiale (z.B. STN:H:11080) - TG:Titelgruppe - T:Titel (z.B. T:"Harry Potter") - V:Verlag - W:Schlagwort - WG:Warengruppe / VLBWG:VLB-Warengruppe **Thema-Klassifikationen:** Nutze W:THEMA... für spezifische Filter (geo, lang, time, edu, interest, style).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.pressbooks.ch/mcp streamable-http answering 125 ms 12 min ago
https://www.pressbooks.ch/mcp/sse sse answering 95 ms 13 min ago

Pressbooks — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Pressbooks do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_product_details, search_products. 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 Pressbooks working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 182 checks got a reply (50.0%), average response time 143 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Pressbooks?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Pressbooks need an API key?
No. Pressbooks completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Pressbooks?
It answers our handshake in 143 ms on average, which is faster than 75% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.