gitee-mcp

A bridge to Gitee (gitee.com), China's largest GitHub-style platform: see what is humming in the Chinese open-source world, pull repo intel, search users and repos, and translate Chinese descriptions to English with your local LLM.

What this wraps

Gitee is the biggest Chinese-language code hosting platform (12M+ users, home of OpenHarmony, dromara/hutool, macrozheng/mall and much of China's OSS). Its ecosystem is nearly invisible from Western tooling, and its API is rate-limited and partially token-gated. gitee-mcp bridges it: anonymous mode works out of the box, a free token unlocks full search. See docs/WRAPPEE.md for the full picture.

Related MCP server: Gitee

What You Can Do

• Humming radar - a live, ranked view of what is active on Gitee, computed from real commit/star/fork data (Gitee has no public trending API; the radar is our transparent methodology, not a simulation).

• Repo intel - details, README, language mix, recent commits, file tree and branches for any public repo.

• Search - users anonymously; repos with a free token.

• Translation - Chinese descriptions, issues and commits to English via Ollama (dictionary gloss fallback when no local model is running).

• Webhooks - receive push/star/fork events and watch the feed.

• Webapp - dark-theme dashboard for all of the above (ports 11161/11162).

Preview

Quick Install

Option A - drag and drop (Claude Desktop): download gitee-mcp-v0.1.0.mcpb from Releases and drag it onto Claude Desktop. Works immediately in anonymous mode.

Option C - manual:

git clone https://github.com/sandraschi/gitee-mcp
cd gitee-mcp && uv sync

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitee-mcp": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["--directory", "C:\\path\\to\\gitee-mcp", "run", "python", "-m", "gitee_mcp.server"]
    }
  }
}

All methods: INSTALL.md.

First time? Complete docs/ONBOARDING.md to create a free Gitee token (optional but unlocks repo search).

Example Prompts

• "What is humming on Gitee right now?"

• "Show me the 10 most active Python repos on Gitee, translated to English."

• "Profile dromara/hutool and summarize its README."

• "Search Gitee for users named macrozheng."

• "Translate this to English: 企业级微服务快速开发框架"

Documentation

Requirements

• Python 3.11+ (via uv)

• Claude Desktop or any MCP host

• Optional: Ollama (winget install Ollama.Ollama, ollama pull qwen2.5:7b) for translation

• Optional: free Gitee token for repo search

License

MIT