TinyURL MCP by usefulapi MCP Server

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TinyURL MCP by usefulapi is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 8 tools. Last commit 12 Oct 2026.

Create and manage TinyURL short links: aliases, destinations, tags, archive, click analytics.

Uptime history 4 hours of history

4 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

12 of 12 checks

Tools

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133 ms

Response time

average over 24h

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last commit 12 Oct 2026

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Today is the operative word: we check TinyURL 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.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add tinyurl --transport http https://tinyurl.usefulapi.io/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tinyurl": {
      "url": "https://tinyurl.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.tinyurl]
url = "https://tinyurl.usefulapi.io/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tinyurl": {
      "url": "https://tinyurl.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tinyurl": {
      "url": "https://tinyurl.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

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

tinyurl

tinyurl_change_destination

WRITE: point an existing short link at a new destination. DESTRUCTIVE: everyone who opens the short link is sent to the new URL from now on and the old destination is overwritten. The new URL must be http(s). PATCH /change.

tinyurl_count_links

How many short links the account has (active or archived), optionally within a creation date range or filtered by alias or tag. GET /urls/{type}/count.

tinyurl_create_link

WRITE: create ONE new short link for an http(s) destination URL. Optional custom alias (5-30 characters on tinyurl.com), domain (tinyurl.com or a branded domain), tags, expiry and description. Not idempotent: calling it again without an alias creates another link. Returns the new tiny_url. POST /create.

tinyurl_get_analytics

Aggregated click analytics for the account, or for one link (alias) or one tag, from a start date. report: timeline (clicks over time; interval minute/hour/day/week/month), general (browsers, operating systems, devices), weekday and hour (popularity), top_sources (referrers), top_languages, location (countries, or the regions of one country via region = ISO 3166 alpha-2 code). Which reports are available depends on the account's TinyURL plan. Visitor-level raw logs are not exposed. GET /analytics/*.

tinyurl_get_link

Details of one short link: destination URL, tiny_url, tags, created/expires dates, archived/deleted flags, analytics settings, total hits and owner. GET /alias/{domain}/{alias}.

tinyurl_list_links

List the account's short links (type available = active, archived = archived), optionally created within a date range or filtered by alias or tag. The TinyURL API does not page this list: at most `limit` items (default 50, max 200) are returned together with the total, so narrow with from/to/search when truncated is true. GET /urls/{type}.

tinyurl_set_link_archived

WRITE: archive an active short link (archived = true) or restore an archived one (archived = false). Archiving moves the link to the archived list; nothing is deleted and it can be restored. The API's archive endpoint is a toggle, so the link's current state is read first and nothing is changed when it already matches, and the state afterwards is checked. Do not run two archive calls for the same link at once. GET /alias/{domain}/{alias}, then PATCH /archive.

tinyurl_update_link

WRITE: change an existing short link's alias, tags, expiry, description or click-analytics switch. At least one new_* field is required. DESTRUCTIVE for what it replaces: new_tags REPLACES all existing tags, and renaming the alias (new_alias) makes the old short URL stop working. The destination URL is changed with tinyurl_change_destination. PATCH /update.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://tinyurl.usefulapi.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	156 ms	1 min ago

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TinyURL MCP by usefulapi — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can TinyURL MCP by usefulapi do?

It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: tinyurl_change_destination, tinyurl_count_links, tinyurl_create_link, tinyurl_get_analytics, tinyurl_get_link, tinyurl_list_links and 2 more. 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 TinyURL MCP by usefulapi working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 12 of 12 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 133 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect TinyURL MCP by usefulapi?

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 TinyURL MCP by usefulapi need an API key?

No. TinyURL MCP by usefulapi completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is TinyURL MCP by usefulapi?

It answers our handshake in 133 ms on average, which is faster than 76% 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 TinyURL MCP by usefulapi open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript, 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.