Perceptlayer MCP Server

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answering

Perceptlayer is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Live web data for AI agents: structured JSON from 248 websites through one API key.

Uptime history 13 days of history

13 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

244 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 7 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

7 Nov 2 tool descriptions were rewritten call_endpoint, search_endpoints

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Perceptlayer 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 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add web-data --transport http https://api.perceptlayer.com/mcp

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

https://api.perceptlayer.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.web-data]
url = "https://api.perceptlayer.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "web-data": {
      "url": "https://api.perceptlayer.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "web-data": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.perceptlayer.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

call

call_endpoint

Run one endpoint and return its JSON response. Spends the call's credits from the user's balance on success only; failed calls are free. Pass parameters exactly as get_endpoint lists them (array parameters as JSON arrays). The result reports credits used and remaining. Errors come back with a code: invalid_parameters (fix the parameters and retry), not_found (no data for these parameters), rate_limited or temporarily_unavailable (wait and retry), insufficient_credits, restricted_endpoint (the user must accept the restricted-endpoint terms in their dashboard), invalid_api_key (the MCP server config needs a valid API key). Responses over 100,000 characters are truncated; use paging or limit parameters to fetch less.

endpoint

get_endpoint

Get the full parameter list for one endpoint: each parameter's name, type, whether it is required, allowed values and limits, plus an example set of parameters, the credit cost and tier. Call this before call_endpoint unless you already know the parameters. Free; no API key needed.

endpoints

search_endpoints

Find Perceptlayer endpoints for a website or kind of data. The catalogue has 1741 endpoints across 248 sources, so search before calling. Query with the site and the data you want, e.g. "amazon product reviews", "airbnb listing", "linkedin company", "google maps places", "zillow property". Returns compact matches: endpoint ID (pass it to get_endpoint or call_endpoint), name, HTTP method, credits per call (credits_max when the price depends on the call), tier ("restricted" endpoints need the account's restricted-endpoint terms accepted) and required parameters. Free; no API key needed.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.perceptlayer.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	124 ms	14 min ago

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Perceptlayer — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Perceptlayer do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: call_endpoint, get_endpoint, search_endpoints. 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 Perceptlayer 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 244 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Perceptlayer?

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 Perceptlayer need an API key?

No. Perceptlayer completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Perceptlayer?

It answers our handshake in 244 ms on average, which is faster than 56% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.