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Recapfy MCP Server

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Recapfy runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 37 installs a week from npm. Last commit 30 Jun 2026.

Ask about a YouTube video or fetch its transcript. Paid per call in USDC on Solana via x402.

Installs per day peak 37 · avg 12 · -39% w/w
a month agotoday
37
Installs / week
npm · recapfy-mcp
1
Stars
0 open issues
30 Jun 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Recapfy 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

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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add recapfy -- npx -y recapfy-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recapfy": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "recapfy-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.recapfy]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "recapfy-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recapfy": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "recapfy-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recapfy": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "recapfy-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: SVM_PRIVATE_KEY (Base58-encoded Solana secret key. Pays per call (dynamic USDC price). Keep it funded; use a dedicated low-balance wallet.), RECAPFY_API_BASE_URL (Override the API base URL (defaults to https://api.recapfy.ai). For local dev only.), RECAPFY_ALLOW_INSECURE_TLS (Set to 1 to accept self-signed TLS (localhost dev over https only).). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Recapfy — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Recapfy?
Recapfy 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 recapfy-mcp was installed 37 times last week.
How do I connect Recapfy?
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 recapfy-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Recapfy?
The npm package recapfy-mcp was installed 37 times in the last week. Week over week that is -39%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Recapfy 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.