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BookStack MCP Server

Connect BookStack to Claude and other AI assistants through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This server provides complete access to your BookStack knowledge base with 47+ tools covering all API endpoints.

✨ What You Get

  • Complete BookStack Integration - Access all your books, pages, chapters, and content

  • 47+ MCP Tools - Full CRUD operations for every BookStack feature

  • Search & Export - Find content and export in multiple formats

  • User Management - Handle users, roles, and permissions

  • Production Ready - Rate limiting, validation, error handling, and logging

🚀 Quick Start

# Install globally npm install -g bookstack-mcp-server # Or run directly npx bookstack-mcp-server

Add to Claude

# For Claude Code claude mcp add bookstack npx bookstack-mcp-server \ --env BOOKSTACK_BASE_URL=https://your-bookstack.com/api \ --env BOOKSTACK_API_TOKEN=token_id:token_secret

Configuration

Set these environment variables:

export BOOKSTACK_BASE_URL="https://your-bookstack.com/api" export BOOKSTACK_API_TOKEN="token_id:token_secret"

💡 Token Format: Combine your BookStack Token ID and Token Secret as token_id:token_secret

💡 Need detailed setup? See the complete Setup Guide

🛠️ Available Tools

47+ tools across 13 categories:

  • 📚 Books - Create, read, update, delete, and export books

  • 📄 Pages - Manage pages with HTML/Markdown content

  • 📑 Chapters - Organize pages within books

  • 📚 Shelves - Group books into collections

  • 👥 Users & Roles - Complete user management

  • 🔍 Search - Advanced search across all content

  • 📎 Attachments & Images - File management

  • 🔐 Permissions - Content access control

  • 🗑️ Recycle Bin - Deleted item recovery

  • 📊 Audit Log - Activity tracking

  • ⚙️ System Info - Instance health and information

📖 See the complete Tools Overview for detailed documentation

📚 Documentation

Find comprehensive guides in the docs/ folder:

⚡ Quick Examples

List all books:

bookstack_books_list({ count: 10, sort: "updated_at" })

Create a new page:

bookstack_pages_create({ name: "Getting Started", book_id: 1, markdown: "# Welcome\nYour content here..." })

Search for content:

bookstack_search({ query: "API documentation", count: 20 })

🛠️ Development

git clone <repository-url> cd bookstack-mcp-server npm install npm run dev

🔧 See the Setup Guide for development, Docker, and production deployment

📝 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

🌟 Community

This project is part of the BookStack ecosystem! Check out other API-based tools and scripts in the BookStack API Scripts repository.

🆘 Support


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