Mealie MCP Server
by bitmonster
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEALIE_BASE_URL | Yes | The base URL of the Mealie instance (e.g., http://localhost:9000) | |
| MEALIE_PASSWORD | No | Mealie password (fallback authentication, requires MEALIE_USERNAME) | |
| MEALIE_USERNAME | No | Mealie username (fallback authentication, requires MEALIE_PASSWORD) | |
| MEALIE_API_TOKEN | No | A long-lived Mealie API token (preferred authentication method) | |
| MEALIE_PUBLIC_URL | No | The public URL of the Mealie instance (optional, for external access) | |
| MEALIE_MCP_TIMEOUT | No | HTTP timeout in seconds (default 30) | 30 |
| MEALIE_MCP_DATA_DIR | No | Runtime data root directory (default ~/.cache/mealie-mcp) | ~/.cache/mealie-mcp |
| MEALIE_MCP_OCR_TIMEOUT | No | Tesseract timeout per OCR call in seconds (default 60) | 60 |
| MEALIE_MCP_DOWNLOAD_DIR | No | Controlled download directory (default $DATA_DIR/downloads) | ~/.cache/mealie-mcp/downloads |
| MEALIE_MCP_MAX_JSON_BYTES | No | Maximum JSON response size (default 10 MiB) | 10485760 |
| MEALIE_MCP_MUTATION_SCOPE | No | Comma-separated mutation scopes (default none) | none |
| MEALIE_MCP_ALLOW_MUTATIONS | No | Enable mutations (default false) | false |
| MEALIE_MCP_MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS | No | Maximum decoded image pixels (default 40,000,000) | 40000000 |
| MEALIE_MCP_ALLOW_URL_IMPORTS | No | Allow Mealie to fetch validated public recipe URLs (default false) | false |
| MEALIE_MCP_MAX_OPENAPI_BYTES | No | Maximum OpenAPI response size (default 20 MiB) | 20971520 |
| MEALIE_MCP_MAX_DOWNLOAD_BYTES | No | Maximum binary download size (default 100 MiB) | 104857600 |
| MEALIE_MCP_ALLOWED_LOCAL_ROOTS | No | Additional local upload roots separated by OS path separator (default empty) | |
| MEALIE_MCP_ALLOW_REMOTE_SOURCES | No | Allow this MCP process to fetch validated public file URLs (default false) | false |
Capabilities
Server capabilities have not been inspected yet.
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
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|---|---|
No tools | |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
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No resources | |
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