API & HTTP MCP servers let an AI assistant talk directly to web APIs instead of guessing from pasted docs or hand-written curl commands. Once connected, the assistant can send requests, inspect responses, follow schemas, work with authentication, and chain multiple API calls into a real workflow. That makes it useful for things like testing endpoints, exploring GraphQL operations, reading API collections, pulling structured data from web services, and turning repetitive integration work into a conversation.
This category is most useful for developers who spend time in Postman, GraphQL explorers, internal REST APIs, data services, or external platforms with decent HTTP interfaces. It is also useful for teams working with specialized APIs such as healthcare FHIR systems, learning platforms, scraping providers, robotics services, or distributed query engines that expose network endpoints. A good API & HTTP MCP server gives the assistant structured inputs and outputs, so it can reliably make requests, compare responses, debug failures, and produce code or follow-up calls without brittle text parsing.
“List the available GraphQL queries and mutations in our Apollo gateway, then run the customerById operation for customer 4821 and summarize the returned fields.”
viaapollo-mcp-server“Open the Payments workspace, find the collection request that creates invoices, run it against the staging environment, and show me the response body and failed tests.”
viapostman-mcp-server“Send a POST request to our local /api/orders endpoint with this JSON payload, then extract the order id, status, and validation errors from the response.”
viahttp“Call the GitHub issues API for vibehackers/vibehackers, return the last 10 open bugs as structured JSON, and group them by label.”
viapare-http| # | Server | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Context7 Context7 is an MCP server that provides up-to-date, version-specific documentation and code examples for libraries directly into prompts for coding agents. | 52.4k |
| 2 | Tolgee Tolgee is an open-source localization platform that allows developers to manage translations directly within their applications, facilitating in-context editing and integration with AI-powered translation services. |
They expose API operations as tools the assistant can call directly. That includes sending requests, passing parameters and auth, reading structured responses, and chaining multiple calls in one task.
With an MCP server, the assistant can execute the real operation instead of only reading documentation. It gets live responses, can inspect failures, and can use tool schemas instead of trying to infer request shapes from pasted text.
No. This category also includes GraphQL endpoints, Postman-managed APIs, FHIR systems, scraping APIs, robotics services, and SQL engines that present network-accessible operations through MCP tools.
Reliable auth handling, structured JSON outputs, clear tool schemas, and safe behavior around writes. The best servers let the assistant inspect responses precisely and repeat requests without fragile parsing or manual setup.
322 servers
upstash
Up-to-date code docs for any prompt
tolgee
Your app's translations in Tolgee: search keys, create translations, trigger machine translation
ref-tools
Token-efficient search for coding agents over public and private documentation.
apollographql
MCP server that exposes GraphQL operations as tools for AI models.
postmanlabs
A basic MCP server to operate on the Postman API.
Dave-London
MCP server for HTTP requests (curl) with structured, token-efficient output
Dave-London
Pare HTTP ג€” Structured HTTP request operations (GET, POST, HEAD) as typed JSON.
getmockd
Multi-protocol API mock server: HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, MQTT, SSE, SOAP.
sanity-io
Direct access to your Sanity projects (content, datasets, releases, schemas) and agent rules
wso2
MCP server providing seamless access to FHIR APIs for AI tools and healthcare applications
timescale
Provides programmatic access to Tiger Cloud services, databases, and documentation.
tuannvm
MCP server for Trino distributed SQL query engine access
vishalsachdev
Canvas LMS integration for students and educators with FERPA-compliant analytics and workflows
oxylabs
Fetch and process content from specified URLs & sources using the Oxylabs Web Scraper API.
wise-vision
View ROS 2 nodes and topics, and call services and actions via MCP
yuna0x0
AniList MCP server for accessing AniList API data
yuna0x0
Access and interact with anime and manga data seamlessly. Retrieve detailed information about your…
xelektron
Cuts AI web-fetching costs up to 99.9% by stripping page junk before it reaches your LLM.
jmagar
MCP server for Unraid API — provides tools to interact with an Unraid server's GraphQL API.
jsdelivr
Interact with a global network measurement platform.Run network commands from any point in the world
w31r4
MCP server wrapping Codex CLI for stdio-based tool calls.
Mastercard
Access Mastercard Developers APIs, documentation, and API specifications through MCP.
zenml-io
MCP server for ZenML - browse stacks, pipelines, runs, artifacts & trigger pipeline runs via API
tjhop
An API-complete MCP server to manage Prometheus-compatible backends.
prisma
MCP server for managing Prisma Postgres.
kuudoai
Amazon Ads API MCP server for Amazon Advertising API
DeanWard
HAL (HTTP API Layer) - An MCP server that provides HTTP API capabilities to Large Language Models
umbraco
A developer focused model context protocol (MCP) server for Umbraco CMS
ai.smithery
BGG MCP provides access to the BoardGameGeek API through the Model Context Protocol, enabling retr…
zoharbabin
MCP server providing Google Search, web scraping, and multi-source research tools for AI assistants
webdriverio
MCP server with WebdriverIO for browser and mobile app automation (iOS/Android via Appium)
variflight
VariFlight's official MCP server provides tools to query flight, weather, comfort, and fare data.
flob95
Create, manage, and share QR codes and short URLs
nslookup-io
DNS lookups, health reports, SSL certs, security scans, GEO scoring, uptime checks
verygoodplugins
WordPress database access via Local by Flywheel. Execute read-only MySQL queries and inspect schema.
verygoodplugins
Evernote note management with OAuth and ENML conversion
port-labs
Port.io mcp server
savhascelik
You can connect any API to LLMs. This enables AI to interact directly with APIs
picahq
A Model Context Protocol Server for Pica
surisoft-io
Apache Camel API Gateway with REST-to-MCP bridging for LLM agents.
xiaojiou176-open
Read-only MCP server for CortexPilot workflows, queue state, proof, replay, and incident summaries.
ai.com.mcp
Strava MCP tools for AI: athletes, activities, segments, clubs, routes. Powered by HAPI MCP server.
“Search the FHIR server for all Observation resources for patient 12345 in the last 30 days and summarize abnormal lab results with dates and codes.”
viafhir-mcp-server“Fetch the product detail page and review count from this ecommerce URL through the scraper API, then return the title, price, and availability as JSON.”
viaoxylabs-mcp“List the ROS 2 services exposed by the robot, call the battery status service, and tell me whether the robot is safe to start a mapping run.”
viamcp-server-ros-2| 3 | Ref Tools Mcp Ref MCP is a ModelContextProtocol server that provides AI coding tools access to documentation for APIs, services, and libraries efficiently. It minimizes token usage while retrieving relevant documentation context. | 1.1k |
| 4 | Apollo MCP Server Apollo MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol server that exposes GraphQL operations as MCP tools, providing a standard way for AI models to access and orchestrate APIs running with Apollo. | 277 |
| 5 | Postman Mcp Server The Postman MCP Server connects Postman to AI tools, enabling AI agents to access workspaces, manage collections and environments, evaluate APIs, and automate workflows through natural language interactions. | 212 |
| 6 | Http An MCP server that wraps curl to make structured HTTP requests for AI agents, returning typed JSON with status, headers, body, and timing. It supports common HTTP methods and restricts requests to http/https URLs with basic input validation. | 116 |
| 7 | Pare Http An MCP server that wraps curl to make structured HTTP requests for AI agents, returning typed JSON with status, headers, body, and timing. It supports GET, POST, HEAD, and generic requests with security checks on URLs, headers, and request bodies. | 116 |
| 8 | mockd This MCP server allows users to mock various protocols including HTTP, gRPC, GraphQL, and more from a single CLI tool, enabling the creation of stateful APIs and digital twins without dependencies. | 115 |
| 9 | Sanity The Sanity Agent Toolkit provides an MCP server for direct access to Sanity projects and agent rules, along with best practices for Sanity development and content modeling. | 114 |
| 10 | FHIR MCP Server The FHIR MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides seamless integration with FHIR APIs, acting as a bridge between AI tools and healthcare data for searching, retrieving, and analyzing clinical information. | 108 |