Purl MCP Server

by nublson Your server? Claim it

not responding

Purl is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. Last commit 16 Sep 2026.

Search and save to your Purl read-it-later knowledge base from any MCP client.

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 0%

47 days agonow

8.7%

Uptime 24h

8 of 92 checks

—

Tools

hidden behind auth

2149 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 16 Sep 2026

Purl does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 9.8% 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 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add purl --transport http https://purl.nublson.com/api/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "purl": {
      "url": "https://purl.nublson.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.purl]
url = "https://purl.nublson.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "purl": {
      "url": "https://purl.nublson.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "purl": {
      "url": "https://purl.nublson.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://purl.nublson.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	68 ms	1 min ago

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Purl — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Is Purl working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 8 of 92 checks got a reply (8.7%), average response time 2149 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Purl 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 Purl?

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 Purl need an API key?

No. Purl completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

Is Purl open source?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 1 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.