TransCAPI MCP Server

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TransCAPI runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 133 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 29 Sep 2026.

Live bus and rail departures, bus positions, disruptions and journey planning for Great Britain.

Installs per day peak 502 · avg 31 · -22% w/w

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133

Installs / week

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29 Sep 2026

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MIT

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check TransCAPI 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

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 Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp -- uvx transcapi-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "args": [
        "transcapi-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["transcapi-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "args": [
        "transcapi-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "args": [
        "transcapi-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: TRANSCAPI_API_KEY (Your TransCAPI API key. Free at https://www.transcapi.com/signup), TRANSCAPI_BASE_URL (API address, if not https://api.transcapi.com). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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TransCAPI — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for TransCAPI?

TransCAPI 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 pypi package transcapi-mcp was installed 133 times last week.

How do I connect TransCAPI?

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 runs locally, so the command pulls transcapi-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use TransCAPI?

The pypi package transcapi-mcp was installed 133 times in the last week. Week over week that is -22%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is TransCAPI open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 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.