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MaterialHandling.com MCP Server

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MaterialHandling.com is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Industrial equipment catalog: 15,000+ products, specs, live LTL freight rates, real quote requests.

Uptime history 31 days of history
31 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
48 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 8 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

7 Oct a tool description was rewritten search_products

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MaterialHandling.com every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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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 9 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add catalog --transport http https://materialhandling-7c6.pages.dev/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://materialhandling-7c6.pages.dev/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.catalog]
url = "https://materialhandling-7c6.pages.dev/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "catalog": {
      "url": "https://materialhandling-7c6.pages.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "catalog": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://materialhandling-7c6.pages.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

categories
get_categories
The product category tree with live product counts. Category paths can be browsed on the website at https://materialhandling.com/{path}/.
freight
get_freight_estimate
Live LTL freight rates to a US ZIP code for one or more products — real carrier pricing (the same engine the website checkout uses). Returns carrier, service, transit days and price. Rate-limited to 10 calls/hour. Items that qualify for parcel (UPS) shipping or that need a custom quote are flagged.
product
get_product
Full detail for one product by SKU, model number (MPN) or product slug: pricing (incl. volume tiers), stock status, lead time in business days, full manufacturer specifications, images and product page URL.
products
search_products
Search the MaterialHandling.com catalog (30,000+ industrial products: lift tables, pallet jacks, casters, dock equipment, hoists, cranes, carts, shelving and more from Vestil, Valley Craft and other brands). Returns name, SKU, price, availability, lead time (business days) and product URL. Use get_product for full specs.
quote
create_quote_request
Create a real quote request in the MaterialHandling.com sales system. A human equipment specialist prices it (volume pricing + freight) and emails the finished quote, usually within one business day. Use when the customer wants formal/volume pricing. Requires the customer's real name and email — always confirm these with the customer before calling. Returns the quote number. Rate-limited to 5/hour.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://materialhandling-7c6.pages.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 27 ms 9 min ago

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MaterialHandling.com — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can MaterialHandling.com do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: create_quote_request, get_categories, get_freight_estimate, get_product, 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 MaterialHandling.com working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 48 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect MaterialHandling.com?
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 MaterialHandling.com need an API key?
No. MaterialHandling.com completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is MaterialHandling.com?
It answers our handshake in 48 ms on average, which is faster than 99% 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.