Star Wars MCP Server

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Star Wars MCP is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 21 Sep 2026.

Star Wars API (SWAPI) as a remote MCP server: films, people, planets, species, starships, vehicles.

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 99%

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

137 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 21 Sep 2026

What changed 5

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 10 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

15 Aug a tool changed version2 times that day

14 Aug a tool changed version

11 Aug a tool changed version

10 Aug a tool changed version

and 1 more, back to 10 August 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Star Wars MCP 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

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add star-wars --transport http https://swapi.build/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "star-wars": {
      "url": "https://swapi.build/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.star-wars]
url = "https://swapi.build/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "star-wars": {
      "url": "https://swapi.build/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "star-wars": {
      "url": "https://swapi.build/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, but it did not say what kind of credentials it expects.

Available tools 4

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

sw_get

Gets one Star Wars entity by numeric id. Ids are the record ids from each entity's url field (e.g. FILMS id 1 = A New Hope). Returns a JSON object.

sw_list

Lists all entities of a Star Wars resource type from swapi.build. Returns a JSON array.

sw_search

Searches a Star Wars resource by name (title for FILMS), case-insensitive substring match. Returns a JSON array.

random

sw_random

Returns one random Star Wars entity of the given resource type. Great for live demos. Returns a JSON object.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://swapi.build/mcp	streamable-http	needs auth	134 ms	11 min ago

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Star Wars MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Star Wars MCP do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: sw_get, sw_list, sw_random, sw_search. 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 Star Wars MCP working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 137 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Star Wars MCP?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You will need your own credentials: it refuses anonymous clients.

Does Star Wars MCP need an API key?

Yes. Every time we knock, Star Wars MCP answers with an authorization challenge instead of its tool list — that is how we know it is running and gated rather than broken. Bring your own credentials and it will talk.

How fast is Star Wars MCP?

It answers our handshake in 137 ms on average, which is faster than 80% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Star Wars MCP open source?

Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Java and 4 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.