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MCP Animenewsnetwork MCP Server

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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.

Installs per day peak 56 · avg 15 · +6% w/w
a month agotoday
192
Installs / week
npm · mcp-animenewsnetwork
0
Stars
1 open issue
6 Nov 2026
Last commit
12 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

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.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp-animenewsnetwork -- npx -y mcp-animenewsnetwork
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-animenewsnetwork": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-animenewsnetwork"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-animenewsnetwork]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-animenewsnetwork"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-animenewsnetwork": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-animenewsnetwork"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "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).

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MCP Animenewsnetwork — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Animenewsnetwork?
MCP Animenewsnetwork 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 mcp-animenewsnetwork was installed 192 times last week.
How do I connect MCP Animenewsnetwork?
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 mcp-animenewsnetwork straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use MCP Animenewsnetwork?
The npm package mcp-animenewsnetwork was installed 192 times in the last week. Week over week that is +6%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is MCP Animenewsnetwork open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.