Pub.dev MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for pub.dev, the official package repository for Dart and Flutter.
It allows AI assistants to search, analyze, and retrieve detailed information about Dart/Flutter packages.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Package Search – Advanced filtering & sorting

• 📦 Package Information – Metadata, dependencies, statistics

• 🔄 Version Management – Check updates, compare versions, track history

• 📚 Documentation Access – README, changelog, examples, API docs

• ⚡ Caching – Built-in 5-minute intelligent cache

• 🛠 Dependency Analysis – Compare dependencies between versions

Related MCP server: Maven Package README MCP Server

📦 Installation

NPM (Recommended)

npm install -g @devqxi/pubdev-mcp-server

From Source

git clone https://github.com/devqxi/pubdev-mcp-server.git
cd pubdev-mcp-server
npm install
npm run build
npm run start

⚙️ Configuration

Claude Desktop

1. Locate your configuration file:

   • Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

   • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

   • Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubdev": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@devqxi/pubdev-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop.

Local Build Example:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubdev": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/pubdev-mcp-server/dist/pubdev-mcp.js"]
    }
  }
}

Other MCP Clients:

npx @devqxi/pubdev-mcp-server

🛠 Available Tools

📖 Example Commands

• Search Packages
  "Search for state management packages sorted by popularity"

• Package Details
  "Get information about the flutter_bloc package"

• Check Updates
  "Check if provider has updates from version 6.0.0"

• Get Docs
  "Get the changelog for dio version 4.0.0"

• Compare Versions
  "Compare dependencies between http 2.0.0 and 3.0.0"

💻 Development

git clone https://github.com/devqxi/pubdev-mcp-server.git
cd pubdev-mcp-server
npm install
npm run build
npm run start

Test with MCP Inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector npx @devqxi/pubdev-mcp-server

🌐 API Reference

• https://pub.dev/api/packages/{package}

• https://pub.dev/api/search

• https://pub.dev/api/packages/{package}/versions

• https://pub.dev/packages/{package}/{version}/{doc-type}

🛡 Error Handling

• Graceful handling of network & API failures

• Clear errors for invalid/non-existent packages

• Built-in delays for respectful rate limiting

• Detailed validation messages for malformed requests

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork & branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)

2. Install deps (npm install)

3. Build & test (npm run build && npm test)

4. Commit & push (git commit -m 'Add feature' && git push)

5. Open a Pull Request

📜 License

MIT – See LICENSE

📢 Support

• GitHub Issues

• Wiki

• Discussions

🆕 Changelog

v1.0.0

• Initial release

• All major pub.dev API endpoints supported

• Caching & error handling implemented

• Full MCP protocol compliance