Pressbooks MCP Server

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answering

Pressbooks is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

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

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 49%

91 days agonow

51.1%

Uptime 24h

93 of 182 checks

Tools

read from the server

148 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Pressbooks does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 52.1% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add vamweb --transport http https://www.pressbooks.ch/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "vamweb": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.pressbooks.ch/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This server publishes 1 more address. The block above uses the one we reach during checks; the full list is under Endpoints below, and the author may intend a particular one for your client.

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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.pressbooks.ch/mcp	streamable-http	answering	152 ms	7 min ago
https://www.pressbooks.ch/mcp/sse	sse	answering	208 ms	7 min ago

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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 93 of 182 checks got a reply (51.1%), average response time 148 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 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 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 148 ms on average, which is faster than 84% 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.