O'Reilly Media MCP Server

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Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 99%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

182 of 182 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

597 ms

Response time

average over 24h

OAuth sign-in

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check O'Reilly Media MCP Server every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add oreilly-mcp-server --transport http https://api.oreilly.com/api/content-discovery/v1/mcp/

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

https://api.oreilly.com/api/content-discovery/v1/mcp/

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.oreilly-mcp-server]
url = "https://api.oreilly.com/api/content-discovery/v1/mcp/"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oreilly-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://api.oreilly.com/api/content-discovery/v1/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "oreilly-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.oreilly.com/api/content-discovery/v1/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

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.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.oreilly.com/api/content-discovery/v1/mcp/	streamable-http	sign-in	575 ms	3 min ago
https://api.oreilly.com/api/search/v1/mcp	streamable-http	sign-in	654 ms	3 min ago

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O'Reilly Media MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for O'Reilly Media MCP Server?

The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.

Is O'Reilly Media MCP Server working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 182 of 182 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 597 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect O'Reilly Media MCP Server?

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. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.

How do you sign in to O'Reilly Media MCP Server?

No API key is involved. O'Reilly Media MCP Server answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.

How fast is O'Reilly Media MCP Server?

It answers our handshake in 597 ms on average, which is faster than 18% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.