SimplePDF MCP Server

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answering

SimplePDF is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago.

Find your PDF forms, read their fields, prefill them for review and retrieve submissions

Uptime history 16 days of history · worst day 50%

16 days agonow

50.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 184 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

185 ms

Response time

average over 24h

OAuth sign-in

Access

streamable-http

SimplePDF does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 50.0% 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 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

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

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

https://simplepdf.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://simplepdf.com/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://simplepdf.com/mcp	streamable-http	sign-in	208 ms	2 min ago
https://{organization}.simplepdf.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	1 ms	2 min ago

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SimplePDF — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for SimplePDF?

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: 50.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.

Is SimplePDF working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 184 checks got a reply (50.0%), average response time 185 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect SimplePDF?

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 SimplePDF?

No API key is involved. SimplePDF 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 SimplePDF?

It answers our handshake in 185 ms on average, which is faster than 74% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.