whoismd-mcp-server

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Open-source native MCP (Model Context Protocol) server driver for WhoisMD real-time internet intelligence routing. Give your AI agents the ability to run deep network forensics, verify domains, and analyze cyber threats natively inside your IDE.

🔑 Get Your API Key: This server acts as an unprivileged client driver. Every tool call is safely delegated to the public WhoisMD REST API (/v1/intel/lookup) and requires your own API credentials. Create an account on the WhoisMD Dashboard to get your pg_live_... API key.

🤖 How to Prompt Your AI Agent

Once configured, you don't need to write code. Just talk to your AI agent (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude) naturally:

• "Check if this domain looks like a phishing variant of google.com using whoismd."

• "Run a bulk infrastructure look up on these 10 domains to find their threat risk scores."

Related MCP server: dns-mcp

Tools

Each lookup returns riskScore, riskLevel, aiCleanSummary, creditsSpent, creditsRemaining, and the full data report. Calls are credit-metered by the API key holder.

Requirements

• Node.js >= 20 (native fetch required)

• A WhoisMD API key (pg_live_...) — generate one from the WhoisMD dashboard after signup. Keys are scoped to the live_lookup tier and rate-limited to 20 requests/minute.

Running

Build & run directly

npm install
npm run build
WHOISMD_API_KEY=pg_live_... node dist/index.js

The server speaks MCP over stdio (JSON-RPC), so it must be launched by an MCP-capable client — not invoked interactively.

Development

npm run dev          # tsx watch, no build step
npm run typecheck    # tsc --noEmit

Environment variables

Client configuration

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json in your project (or the global Cursor MCP config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whoismd": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "whoismd-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "WHOISMD_API_KEY": "pg_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

To point at a local checkout instead:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whoismd": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/whoismd-mcp-server/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "WHOISMD_API_KEY": "pg_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Windsurf uses the same MCP JSON shape. Add it via ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, or through Settings → MCP → Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whoismd": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "whoismd-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "WHOISMD_API_KEY": "pg_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whoismd": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "whoismd-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "WHOISMD_API_KEY": "pg_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

Generic clients

npx -y whoismd-mcp-server
# or
node /absolute/path/to/whoismd-mcp-server/dist/index.js

The API key can also be exported in the environment of the client process instead of the config env block — how you inject it is up to your client's security model. Prefer config-injected env, never shell history or commit.

Security

• The API key is consumed from the environment / client config only; it is never embedded, logged, or written to disk by this server.

• All traffic goes to the public WhoisMD endpoint over HTTPS.

• This driver is deliberately read-only and unprivileged: no private database, no reverse footprint history, no admin surface.

License

MIT