The Data Collector MCP Server

by marcindudekdev Your server? Claim it

not responding

The Data Collector is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 3 tools.

Search Hacker News, Bluesky, and Substack from a single MCP interface

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

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%

91 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

142 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

The Data Collector does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% 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 4 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add the-data-collector --transport http https://frog03-20494.wykr.es/mcp

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

https://frog03-20494.wykr.es/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.the-data-collector]
url = "https://frog03-20494.wykr.es/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "the-data-collector": {
      "url": "https://frog03-20494.wykr.es/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "the-data-collector": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://frog03-20494.wykr.es/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

bluesky

bluesky_search

Search Bluesky posts by keyword. Returns post text, author handles, likes, reposts, and timestamps.

hn_search

Search Hacker News stories by keywords. Returns titles, URLs, scores, authors, and comment counts.

substack

substack_search

Scrape articles from Substack newsletters. Returns full text, titles, dates, and metadata.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

list_scrapers

removed 7 Aug 2026

run_scraper

removed 7 Aug 2026

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://frog03-20494.wykr.es/mcp	streamable-http	answering	142 ms	4 min ago

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The Data Collector — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can The Data Collector do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: bluesky_search, hn_search, substack_search. 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 The Data Collector working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 142 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Did The Data Collector ever remove tools?

Yes. list_scrapers, run_scraper are no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.

Is The Data Collector 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.

The registry lists The Data Collector as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect The Data Collector?

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 The Data Collector need an API key?

No. The Data Collector completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.