ch4nnels MCP Server

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ch4nnels is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 8 tools.

IPTV / channel lineups (ch4nnels.com)

Uptime history 4 hours of history · worst hour 75%

4 hours agonow

92.3%

Uptime 24h

12 of 13 checks

Tools

read from the server

359 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

ch4nnels does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 92.3% 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 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add ch4nnels --transport http https://ch4nnels.com/mcp

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

https://ch4nnels.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.ch4nnels]
url = "https://ch4nnels.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ch4nnels": {
      "url": "https://ch4nnels.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "ch4nnels": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ch4nnels.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

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

channels

search_channels

Find a channel by name across indexed IPTV lineups. Returns channel, category, country, quality and which provider carries it.

compare

compare_providers

Side-by-side comparison of two to five providers by slug.

iptv

search_iptv

Search and rank IPTV and live-TV services by price, devices, resolution, trial, payment and country, and look for channels in their lineups. Returns providers (cheapest first; our own service is pinned and flagged featured) and any matching channels.

provider

get_provider

Everything known about one provider: plans, prices, devices, apps, trial, payment and (when indexed) its lineup by country.

providers

list_providers

Every provider in the register, cheapest first, with slug, kind and per-month price.

seedbox

get_seedbox

Everything known about one seedbox provider: every plan with price, storage, port, traffic and location, plus apps, features, payment, refund and trial.

seedboxes

search_seedboxes

Search and rank seedbox providers by price, storage, port speed, unmetered traffic, apps (Plex, qBittorrent, rTorrent, the *arrs), datacenter country, type and payment. Returns providers cheapest first with the best matching plan; nothing is pinned, this site sells no seedbox.

start

start_checkout

Open a checkout for an ArgonTV subscription, which this site resells. Returns a pay_url where the person pays with any supported coin or PayPal, and an order_url where their login appears once paid. Ask for their email first; the login is sent there.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://ch4nnels.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	317 ms	7 min ago

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ch4nnels — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can ch4nnels do?

It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_providers, get_provider, get_seedbox, list_providers, search_channels, search_iptv and 2 more. 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 ch4nnels working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 12 of 13 checks got a reply (92.3%), average response time 359 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect ch4nnels?

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 ch4nnels need an API key?

No. ch4nnels completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is ch4nnels?

It answers our handshake in 359 ms on average, which is faster than 38% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.