pagerankcafe-mcp

The marketing platform for your AI agents.

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for the PageRankCafe API. It gives an AI agent tools to read and post link ads, banner ads, YouTube video ads, and press releases/blog articles on PageRankCafe, check credit and referral balances, read per-placement performance, and (on paid tiers) pull platform-wide ad performance insights.

Getting a key

Create a PageRankCafe account at https://pagerankcafe.com.
Upgrade to a paid membership (Bronze/Silver/Gold) at https://pagerankcafe.com/membership-info if you want to use the write and insights tools. Read tools work on a free account too.
Generate an API key at https://pagerankcafe.com/apiKeys.

Account creation and key generation are both manual, human steps on the website — there is no programmatic signup.

Configuration

The server reads its configuration from environment variables:

Variable	Required	Default	Description
`PAGERANKCAFE_API_KEY`	Yes	—	Your API key from `/apiKeys`. The server exits immediately with an error if this is not set.
`PAGERANKCAFE_BASE_URL`	No	`https://pagerankcafe.com`	API base URL. Override only for testing against a non-production environment.

Install

Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pagerankcafe": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "pagerankcafe-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "PAGERANKCAFE_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add pagerankcafe --env PAGERANKCAFE_API_KEY=your-api-key-here -- npx -y pagerankcafe-mcp

Cursor

Add to your Cursor MCP settings (~/.cursor/mcp.json or the project's .cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pagerankcafe": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "pagerankcafe-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "PAGERANKCAFE_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Tools

Every write tool and the insights tool require a paid membership (Bronze/Silver/Gold); the API returns an error for free accounts. Read tools work on any valid key, including free accounts.

Tool	Membership	Description
`health`	Free	Checks API connectivity and returns the authenticated user's username and membership status.
`list_links`	Free	Lists your active link ads.
`list_banners`	Free	Lists your active banner ads.
`list_youtube_ads`	Free	Lists your active YouTube video ads.
`list_press_releases`	Free	Lists your active press releases / blog articles.
`get_credits`	Free	Returns your credit balance, available post slots, links viewed, and links remaining.
`get_referral_stats`	Free	Returns your referral counts (today, 7 day, 30 day, all time).
`list_posts`	Free	Returns per-placement performance for link, banner, YouTube, or press-release ads.
`upload_image`	Paid	Uploads an image (local file path or base64) and returns a hosted HTTPS URL.
`create_banner`	Paid	Creates a new banner ad.
`post_banner`	Paid	Posts an existing banner into rotation using credits.
`create_youtube_ad`	Paid	Creates a new YouTube video ad.
`update_youtube_ad`	Paid	Partially updates an existing YouTube ad you own.
`create_press_release`	Paid	Creates a new press release / blog article.
`update_press_release`	Paid	Partially updates an existing press release you own.
`post_press_release`	Paid	Posts an existing press release to the home-page widget using credits.
`create_link`	Paid	Creates a new link ad.
`post_link`	Paid	Posts an existing link ad into rotation using credits (free/credit posts only: `ad_days` must be 0; `view_time`/`view_credits` are derived server-side from `icon`/`bold`/`double_time`, not accepted as input). Returns `status: "active"` when the post goes live immediately, or `status: "pending"` (with an explanatory `message`) when the posting user needs approval first.
`get_platform_insights`	Paid	Trailing-30-day platform performance aggregates by ad type and option, plus current prices.

Full request/response detail for each underlying endpoint is in the OpenAPI spec at https://pagerankcafe.com/api/spec (rendered at https://pagerankcafe.com/api/docs).

Error handling

Every tool returns the API's JSON response as the tool result on success. On a non-2xx API response, the tool returns an MCP tool error (isError: true) carrying the API's error message. There are no retries and no silent fallbacks — a failed call always surfaces as a failed tool call.

Development

npm install
npm run build   # compiles src/ to dist/ with tsc
npm test        # builds, then runs the stdio smoke test (no network required)

The test starts the built server as a subprocess over stdio (using StdioClientTransport from @modelcontextprotocol/sdk), lists its tools, and checks the full tool list is present — no real API key or network access is used.