Printify MCP by usefulapi is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 17 tools. Last commit 2 Nov 2026.
Read shops, catalog blueprints, print providers, products and orders; create and publish products.
Uptime history
91 days of history · worst day 16%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
17
Tools
read from the server
158 ms
Response time
average over 24h
1
Stars
last commit 2 Nov 2026
What changed 51
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 30 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
2 Nov
a tool changed version
31 Oct
a tool changed version4 times that day
30 Oct
a tool changed version2 times that day
29 Oct
3 tools appeared
printify_copy_products, printify_copy_status, printify_resolve_copy
29 Oct
a tool changed version2 times that day
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a tool changed version2 times that day
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a tool changed version
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a tool changed version4 times that day
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a tool changed version3 times that day
23 Oct
a tool changed version
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Today is the operative word: we check Printify MCP by usefulapi 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.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add printify --transport http https://printify.usefulapi.io/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://printify.usefulapi.io/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.printify]
url = "https://printify.usefulapi.io/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"printify": {
"url": "https://printify.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"printify": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://printify.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 17
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
printify
printify_calculate_shipping
Get a shipping price quote for a set of line items to a destination address. Non-destructive — it only prices, it does NOT place an order. `line_items` is an array where each item is one of {product_id, variant_id, quantity}, {print_provider_id, blueprint_id, variant_id, quantity}, or {sku, quantity}. `address_to` is the destination (first_name, last_name, email, phone, country, region, address1, address2, city, zip, company). Printify REST: POST /v1/shops/{shop_id}/orders/shipping.json.
printify_copy_products
Preview or copy selected products or a complete catalog between two Printify shops in the same account. Preserves title, description, blueprint/provider, variant IDs/prices/enabled flags, artwork IDs and print-area transforms. Preserves canvas side printing and image pattern rotation. This initial workflow does not copy tags, SKUs, channel IDs, publication state or generated mockups. Products with text/personalization layers are explicitly refused because their creation fields are read-only. Preview by default. confirm:true starts/resumes a durable bounded job; save job_id and keep calling with that job_id and confirm:true until complete. Duplicate prevention remembers copies made by this connector, including across restarts/jobs; pre-existing copies made elsewhere are not detected. An uncertain create is never automatically retried: inspect the target and use printify_resolve_copy. Do not change the source catalog during an all-products run. Requires shops.read/products.read/products.write. Confirmed copying requires the hosted connector's durable coordinator.
printify_copy_status
Read a durable product-copy job's progress, target mappings, failures and uncertain writes. Verifies that the current token can access both shops. Does not create or retry products.
printify_get_blueprint
Get a single catalog blueprint's details. Printify REST: GET /v1/catalog/blueprints/{blueprint_id}.json.
printify_get_order
Get a single order's full details, including `shipments` (carrier + tracking numbers). Printify REST: GET /v1/shops/{shop_id}/orders/{order_id}.json.
printify_get_print_providers
List the print providers that can produce a given blueprint. Printify REST: GET /v1/catalog/blueprints/{blueprint_id}/print_providers.json.
printify_get_product
Get a single product's full details (variants, images, print areas, publish status). Printify REST: GET /v1/shops/{shop_id}/products/{product_id}.json.
printify_get_variants
List the variants (sizes, colors) a print provider offers for a blueprint. Printify REST: GET /v1/catalog/blueprints/{blueprint_id}/print_providers/{print_provider_id}/variants.json.
printify_list_catalog_blueprints
List all blueprints (product types, e.g. 'Unisex T-Shirt') available in the Printify catalog. Printify REST: GET /v1/catalog/blueprints.json.
printify_list_orders
List orders in a shop (paginated), optionally filtered by status or SKU. Printify REST: GET /v1/shops/{shop_id}/orders.json.
printify_list_print_providers
List all print providers in the Printify catalog. Printify REST: GET /v1/catalog/print_providers.json.
printify_list_products
List products in a shop (paginated). Printify REST: GET /v1/shops/{shop_id}/products.json.
printify_list_shops
List all shops connected to the Printify account. This is the entry point — each shop's `id` is required by the product, order and webhook tools. Printify REST: GET /v1/shops.json.
printify_list_uploads
List images uploaded to the account's media library (paginated). Printify REST: GET /v1/uploads.json.
printify_list_webhooks
List the webhooks configured for a shop. Printify REST: GET /v1/shops/{shop_id}/webhooks.json.
printify_publish_product
Publish a product to the shop's connected sales channel (e.g. Shopify, Etsy). STATE-CHANGING: this locks the product and pushes the selected fields to the external store. The body is an object of booleans controlling which fields are published; all default to true. Printify REST: POST /v1/shops/{shop_id}/products/{product_id}/publish.json.
printify_resolve_copy
Resolve one failed or uncertain source product in a durable copy job. Provide an existing target_product_id to verify the exact supported fields against the checkpoint and record it as copied. Or set verified_not_created:true only after checking the target shop manually; this allows one future retry through printify_copy_products. Requires confirm:true, never creates/publishes/deletes anything itself. An ambiguous write must never be blindly retried.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://printify.usefulapi.io/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 72 ms | 11 min ago |
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Printify MCP by usefulapi — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Printify MCP by usefulapi do?
It exposes 17 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: printify_calculate_shipping, printify_copy_products, printify_copy_status, printify_get_blueprint, printify_get_order, printify_get_print_providers and 11 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is Printify MCP by usefulapi 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 158 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Printify MCP by usefulapi?
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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Printify MCP by usefulapi need an API key?
No. Printify MCP by usefulapi completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 17 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Printify MCP by usefulapi?
It answers our handshake in 158 ms on average, which is faster than 81% 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 Printify MCP by usefulapi open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript, 1 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at printify.usefulapi.io, which runs on its operator's own terms.