PreviewDrop MCP Server

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PreviewDrop runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 72 installs a week from npm.

Deploy any Git branch to a live HTTPS preview URL from your agent. No Dockerfile required.

Installs per day peak 314 · avg 19 · -19% w/w

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · previewdrop

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Stars

on GitHub

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Last commit

2 releases in 90 days

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License

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check PreviewDrop 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

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 cli -- npx -y previewdrop

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cli": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "previewdrop"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.cli]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "previewdrop"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cli": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "previewdrop"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "cli": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "previewdrop"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: PREVIEWDROP_API_KEY (PreviewDrop API key. Optional: without it the server still starts and lists its tools, and each tool explains how to connect. Create one at previewdrop.dev/dashboard/settings or run `npx previewdrop login`).

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PreviewDrop — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for PreviewDrop?

PreviewDrop 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 previewdrop was installed 72 times last week.

How do I connect PreviewDrop?

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 runs locally, so the command pulls previewdrop straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use PreviewDrop?

The npm package previewdrop was installed 72 times in the last week. Week over week that is -19%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.