CartScout MCP Server

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CartScout runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 15 Sep 2026.

Live product prices, stock, variants and deal ratings from Shopify, Walmart, eBay and more.

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15 Sep 2026

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check CartScout 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 cartscout-mcp -- uvx cartscout-mcp

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

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

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

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

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: RAPIDAPI_KEY (Your RapidAPI key for CartScout. The free plan includes 300 extractions a month.), CARTSCOUT_RAPIDAPI_HOST (RapidAPI host of the CartScout API.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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CartScout — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for CartScout?

CartScout 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 cartscout-mcp.

How do I connect CartScout?

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 cartscout-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

Is CartScout 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.