thumbtack-mcp

Unofficial Thumbtack MCP server — search local service pros, and read their profiles, ratings, reviews and credentials.

Read-only and anonymous. Thumbtack's consumer pages and its GraphQL endpoint answer without a login, so this server needs no account, no API key and no browser extension. It also cannot write: Thumbtack's write paths sit behind a reCAPTCHA-gated login that no server-side client can pass.

Thumbtack has no public consumer API. This server reads its server-rendered pages and anonymous GraphQL endpoint, and may break or violate their ToS. Developed and maintained by AI (Claude). Use at your own discretion.

Install

// .mcp.json
{ "mcpServers": { "thumbtack": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@chrischall/thumbtack-mcp"] } } }

No configuration — there are no environment variables.

Related MCP server: valet-parking-directory

Tools

thumbtack_search_pros returns the full upstream records by default; pass compact: true for slim summaries. The full records are large and mostly tracking metadata, so compact: true is usually what you want when an agent is browsing or ranking.

Shell-only alternative

skills/thumbtack/ is a self-contained skill covering the same surface with plain curl + jq — no server process. Use it for one-shot lookups and scripts.

How it works

Three verified surfaces, all pinned in docs/THUMBTACK-API.md:

1. Search pages — results embedded in __NEXT_DATA__.

2. Profile pages — window.__APOLLO_STATE__ (a bare JS assignment, so it needs balanced-brace extraction) plus schema.org JSON-LD.

3. GraphQL (app.thumbtack.com/graphql) — accepts ad-hoc anonymous queries; introspection is disabled.

Two things that bite anyone reading these pages:

• JSON-LD @type is the trade-specific subtype, not LocalBusiness — a plumber's node is "@type":"Plumber". Match by shape, not by type name.

• GraphQL returns HTTP 200 with an errors[] body. Status alone is never sufficient.

Not covered

• Your own Thumbtack account (projects, messages, quotes) — the login is reCAPTCHA-gated, so there is no server-side password login.

• The Partner Platform API (developers.thumbtack.com) — real and documented, but gated behind partner credentials ("Request Access"). It is a seller surface, not a consumer one.

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm test            # unit + server-boot smoke tests
npm run test:coverage

Coverage is enforced at 100%.

License

MIT