Apple Books MCP Server

What the code does

We read the source, 7 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

        if os.path.lexists(os.path.join(folder, f".{name}.icloud")):

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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 mcp add apple-books-mcp -- uvx apple-books-mcp

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

[mcp_servers.apple-books-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["apple-books-mcp"]

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

{
  "servers": {
    "apple-books-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "apple-books-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES (Allow the collection write tools (create, rename and delete collections; add and remove books). Writes refuse to run while Books is open and take a backup first), APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR (Folder holding the Apple Books stores (BKLibrary and AEAnnotation), if not ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iBooksX/Data/Documents), APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS (How many tool calls may run at once (default 8; 0 runs them one at a time on the event loop)), APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT (Seconds a library query may run before it is stopped (default 30; 0 for no limit)).