MCP Animenewsnetwork runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 192 installs a week from npm. Last commit 6 Nov 2026.
Search the Anime News Network encyclopedia and read its news wire. No API key.
Today is the operative word: we check MCP Animenewsnetwork every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
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 mcp add mcp-animenewsnetwork -- npx -y mcp-animenewsnetwork
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-animenewsnetwork": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-animenewsnetwork"
]
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.mcp-animenewsnetwork]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-animenewsnetwork"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-animenewsnetwork": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-animenewsnetwork"
]
}
}
}
{
"servers": {
"mcp-animenewsnetwork": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-animenewsnetwork"
]
}
}
}
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
ANN_USER_AGENT (Override the User-Agent sent to Anime News Network), ANN_MIN_INTERVAL_MS (Minimum milliseconds between requests. Default 1100, floor 1000), ANN_TIMEOUT_MS (Deadline for one request, from 1000 to 120000. Default 15000), ANN_MAX_RETRIES (Attempts after a transient failure, from 0 to 10. Default 3), ANN_CACHE_TTL_MS (How long an encyclopedia entry stays in memory, from 0 to 86400000. Default 3600000), ANN_NEWS_CACHE_TTL_MS (How long a news feed stays in memory, from 0 to 86400000. Default 300000), ANN_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES (Answers held in memory at once, from 0 to 10000. Default 200), ANN_LOG_LEVEL (silent, error, info or debug. Default error).
Read, search and edit Smartipedia, an open AI-native encyclopedia. No API key, no signup.
Search, read and trace links across the Edgepedia encyclopedia corpus.
Search the MEDIAPRONET directory of websites and tools. Read-only, no API key.
News and article search from The Guardian. No key required.
Search anime and manga from MyAnimeList through the Jikan API. No key required.
Search the SitePatent directory of websites and tools. Read-only, no API key.
Search BBC Good Food recipes, read one, and scale its ingredients. No API key.
Search anime on Kitsu. No key required.
Answers built from our own checks of this server.