Mealie MCP Server

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Mealie MCP Server runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 427 installs a week from npm. Last commit 27 Aug 2026.

MCP server for Mealie, the self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner

Installs per day peak 210 · avg 24 · +43% w/w

a month agotoday

427

Installs / week

npm · @ni-c/mealie-mcp

Stars

0 open issues

27 Aug 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

TypeScript

What the code does

We read the source, 12 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

Reaches cloud metadata service src/hosts.ts:17

  'metadata.google.internal',

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch Mealie MCP Server and you get told the day something new turns up.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mealie-mcp -- npx -y @ni-c/mealie-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mealie-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ni-c/mealie-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mealie-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@ni-c/mealie-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mealie-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ni-c/mealie-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mealie-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ni-c/mealie-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Mealie MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Mealie MCP Server?

Mealie MCP Server runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package @ni-c/mealie-mcp was installed 427 times last week.

How do I connect Mealie MCP Server?

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 runs locally, so the command pulls @ni-c/mealie-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Mealie MCP Server?

The npm package @ni-c/mealie-mcp was installed 427 times in the last week. Week over week that is +43%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Mealie MCP Server open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.