Review Guru MCP Server
Click on "Install Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type
@followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@Review Guru MCP ServerFind top-rated restaurants in Colombo"
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
Review Guru MCP Server
An MCP server that exposes Sri Lankan business reviews and doctor profiles from Review Guru to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, or any MCP-aware AI agent.
No API key. No scraping. Calls a public, cached, rate-limited HTTPS endpoint.
What you get
Tool | What it does |
| Ranked list of businesses. Sort: |
| Full profile: address, phone, hours, categories, rating breakdown, top 10 reviews. |
| Paginated reviews. Sort: |
| Full-text search (FTS5) across every business and doctor. |
| Top-level categories + sub-categories with slugs. |
| Sri Lankan cities with business counts. |
Plus a reviewguru://about resource that returns live counts.
Data covers restaurants, hotels, shops, salons, hospitals, Sri Lankan doctors with specialty + practice locations, and more — all with patient/ customer reviews.
Install
With uv (recommended)
uvx reviewguru-mcpWith pipx
pipx install reviewguru-mcp
reviewguru-mcpWith pip
pip install reviewguru-mcp
reviewguru-mcpThe server speaks MCP over stdio — invoke it from any MCP client config.
Wire it up
Claude Desktop
Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (Mac)
or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):
{
"mcpServers": {
"reviewguru": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["reviewguru-mcp"]
}
}
}Restart Claude Desktop. The 🔌 icon in chat will show the Review Guru tools.
Cursor
Settings → MCP → Add new MCP server:
Command:
uvxArgs:
reviewguru-mcp
Cline (VS Code)
Cline → Settings → MCP Servers → Add:
{
"reviewguru": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["reviewguru-mcp"]
}
}Try it
Once wired up, ask your assistant things like:
Find me three highly-rated cardiologists in Colombo and tell me which hospital each one consults at.
What are people saying about Ministry of Crab? Pull the most recent five reviews.
I'm a vegetarian visiting Galle for a weekend — recommend two restaurants.
The model will pick the right tools and stitch the answers together.
Configuration
Environment variables (all optional):
Variable | Default | Effect |
|
| API base URL — point at staging or a fork. |
|
| Used to render business URLs in tool output. |
| (none) | If set to an existing SQLite path, server uses local DB instead of HTTP. Maintainer-only. |
Rate limits + acceptable use
The public API is shared and lightly rate-limited (60 req/min per IP). For
heavier usage, set REVIEWGURU_API to your own deployment.
Reviews are licensed for citation with attribution to Review Guru and a link back to the specific business URL. See reviewguru.lk/llms.txt for full LLM-usage guidelines.
Self-hosting
Want to fork? The server is one Python file (server.py). It auto-detects:
HTTP mode (default) — calls
/api/v1endpoints. Works anywhere.SQLite mode — if
data/reviewguru.dbis present in the parent dir. Used by the maintainers for sub-millisecond local queries.
git clone https://github.com/kapruka/reviewguru-mcp
cd reviewguru-mcp
pip install -e .
reviewguru-mcpLinks
🌐 Site — https://reviewguru.lk
🔌 Public API — https://reviewguru.lk/api/v1
📜 OpenAPI spec — https://reviewguru.lk/api/openapi.json
📄 LLM usage policy — https://reviewguru.lk/llms.txt
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
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