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Channel3 Shopping MCP Server

by trychannel3
answering

Channel3 Shopping is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 5 Aug 2026.

Shopping search across 100M+ products, with every retailer's offer and live price in one place.

Uptime history 4 hours of history
4 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
11 of 11 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
113 ms
Response time
average over 24h
2
Stars
last commit 5 Aug 2026

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add shopping --transport http https://mcp.trychannel3.com/
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shopping": {
      "url": "https://mcp.trychannel3.com/"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.shopping]
url = "https://mcp.trychannel3.com/"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shopping": {
      "url": "https://mcp.trychannel3.com/"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shopping": {
      "url": "https://mcp.trychannel3.com/"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

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

products
get_products
Get full product data (offers, description, attributes, images) by product ID from a search result, or by retailer URL. Pass several IDs in one call to compare. Use search_products to find products. Returns details in the storefront UI.
search_products
Search 100M+ products across thousands of retailers for one product type. Call once for each distinct product type, and send independent calls together. Put relevant constraints in `query`. Returns up to 8 product cards plus structured product data.
browse
browse_products
Search and page through products for the storefront UI.
details
get_details
Fetch a product with live offers, for the storefront UI.
price
get_price_history
Fetch 30-day price history for a product, for the storefront UI.
similar
get_similar
Find products similar to a given product, for the storefront UI.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.trychannel3.com/ streamable-http answering 44 ms 0 min ago

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Channel3 Shopping — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Channel3 Shopping do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: browse_products, get_details, get_price_history, get_products, get_similar, search_products. 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 Channel3 Shopping working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 11 of 11 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 113 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Channel3 Shopping?
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.
Does Channel3 Shopping need an API key?
No. Channel3 Shopping completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Channel3 Shopping?
It answers our handshake in 113 ms on average, which is faster than 83% 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 Channel3 Shopping open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 2 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.