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Paprika 3 MCP Server

by soggycactus

paprika-3-mcp

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes your Paprika 3 recipes as LLM-readable resources — and lets an LLM like Claude create or update recipes in your Paprika app.

🖼️ Example: Claude using the Paprika MCP server

🚀 Features

See anything missing? Open an issue on this repo to request a feature!

📄 Resources
  • Recipes ✅
  • Recipe Photos 🚧
🛠 Tools
  • create_paprika_recipe
    Allows Claude to save a new recipe to your Paprika app
  • update_paprika_recipe
    Allows Claude to modify an existing recipe

⚙️ Prerequisites

  • ✅ A Mac, Linux, or Windows system
  • Paprika 3 installed with cloud sync enabled
  • ✅ Your Paprika 3 username and password
  • ✅ Claude or any LLM client with MCP tool support enabled

🛠 Installation

You can download a prebuilt binary from the Releases page.

🍎 macOS (via Homebrew)

If you're on macOS, the easiest way to install is with Homebrew:

brew tap soggycactus/tap brew install paprika-3-mcp

🐧 Linux / 🪟 Windows

  1. Go to the latest release.
  2. Download the appropriate archive for your operating system and architecture:
    • paprika-3-mcp_<version>_linux_amd64.zip for Linux
    • paprika-3-mcp_<version>_windows_amd64.zip for Windows
  3. Extract the zip archive:
    • Linux:
      unzip paprika-3-mcp_<version>_<os>_<arch>.zip
    • Windows:
      • Right-click the .zip file and select Extract All, or use a tool like 7-Zip.
  4. Move the binary to a directory in your system's $PATH:
    • Linux:
      sudo mv paprika-3-mcp /usr/local/bin/
    • Windows:
      • Move paprika-3-mcp.exe to any folder in your PATH (e.g., %USERPROFILE%\bin)

✅ Test the installation

You can verify the server is installed by checking:

paprika-3-mcp --version

You should see:

paprika-3-mcp version v0.1.0

🤖 Setting up Claude

If you haven't setup MCP before, first read more about how to install Claude Desktop client & configure an MCP server.

To add paprika-3-mcp to Claude, all you need to do is create another entry in the mcpServers section of your claude_desktop_config.json file:

{ "mcpServers": { "paprika-3": { "command": "paprika-3-mcp", "args": [ "--username", "<your paprika 3 username (usually email)>", "--password", "<your paprika 3 password>" ] } } }

Restart Claude and you should see the MCP server tools after clicking on the hammerhead icon:

MCP server running with Claude

📄 License

This project is open source under the MIT License © 2025 Lucas Stephens.


🗂 Miscellaneous
📄 Where can I see the server logs?

The MCP server writes structured logs using Go’s slog with rotation via lumberjack. Log files are automatically created based on your operating system:

Operating SystemLog File Path
macOS~/Library/Logs/paprika-3-mcp/server.log
Linux/var/log/paprika-3-mcp/server.log
Windows%APPDATA%\paprika-3-mcp\server.log
Other / Unknown/tmp/paprika-3-mcp/server.log

💡 Logs are rotated automatically at 100MB, with only 5 backup files kept. Logs are also wiped after 10 days.

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local-only server

The server can only run on the client's local machine because it depends on local resources.

Create and save recipes in Paprika with natural language!

  1. 🖼️ Example: Claude using the Paprika MCP server
    1. 🚀 Features
      1. 📄 Resources
      2. 🛠 Tools
    2. ⚙️ Prerequisites
      1. 🛠 Installation
        1. 🍎 macOS (via Homebrew)
        2. 🐧 Linux / 🪟 Windows
        3. ✅ Test the installation
      2. 🤖 Setting up Claude
        1. 📄 License
          1. 🗂 Miscellaneous

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