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purdue-mcp

One MCP server for all public, real-time Purdue University data — dining menus, live gym occupancy, the course catalog, bus times, campus events, student orgs, library hours, athletics, news, and weather. Point any MCP client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, …) at it and ask "what's for dinner at Wiley", "how busy is the CoRec", or "when's the next bus from the PMU".

24 tools across 10 public sources.

Everything it reads is public and unauthenticated. It never touches a student account, grades, schedules, bursar records, or anything behind a Purdue login.

Unofficial and community-run. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Purdue University.

Install

npm install -g purdue-mcp

Or run straight from the repo:

git clone https://github.com/sharziki/purdue-mcp && cd purdue-mcp
npm install && npm run build

Connect it

Claude Code

claude mcp add purdue -- npx -y purdue-mcp

Claude Desktop / Cursor — add to your MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "purdue": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "purdue-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Tools

Dining — Purdue HFS dining API

Tool

What it answers

dining_locations

Every dining court / Quick Bites / On-the-GO!, open right now or next meal time

dining_menu

Full menu for a location and date, by meal and station, with vegan/vegetarian/allergen filters

dining_find_item

"Who's serving chicken tenders today?" — searches every dining court at once

dining_item_nutrition

Full nutrition panel for any menu item

dining_line_length

Crowdsourced live line-length reports (populated around peak meal hours)

Academics — Purdue.io course catalog

Tool

What it answers

list_terms

Term codes and date ranges, newest first

list_subjects

Every subject code (CS, MA, ENGR, …)

search_courses

Courses by subject, number, or title keyword — with descriptions and credit hours

course_sections

CRNs, section types, meeting days/times, rooms, and instructors for a term

find_building

Resolve a building code, e.g. LWSN → Lawson Computer Science Bldg

Campus life

Tool

What it answers

search_events

Official university calendar — lectures, athletics, career fairs, deadlines

search_student_orgs

~1,200 registered student organizations on BoilerLink

search_club_events

Upcoming club events: callouts, socials, meetings

Facilities

Tool

What it answers

recwell_occupancy

Live headcount and % capacity for all 37 counted RecWell spaces — "how busy is the CoRec right now"

library_hours

Today's hours and open/closed status for every library, or the full week

Athletics

Tool

What it answers

athletics_sports

Every varsity team and its current season schedule

athletics_schedule

Full season for one team — opponents, rankings, home/away, venue, results

athletics_upcoming

Next Boilermaker games across all sports, soonest first

Getting around

Tool

What it answers

bus_routes

Every CityBus route serving campus and Greater Lafayette

bus_stops

Find stops by name, or the stops nearest a lat/lon

bus_next_departures

Next scheduled departures from a stop, with minutes-until

News and deadlines

Tool

What it answers

purdue_news

Official newsroom articles, searchable

academic_calendar

First day of classes, breaks, finals week, add/drop deadlines, exam scheduling

Environment

Tool

What it answers

campus_weather

Current conditions, forecast, and active NWS alerts for West Lafayette

Dates default to today in the campus timezone (America/Indiana/Indianapolis), so the server gives the right answer no matter where it runs.

Data sources

Source

Endpoint

Notes

Purdue Dining (HFS)

api.hfs.purdue.edu/menus/v2

Official, public, unauthenticated

Purdue.io

api.purdue.io/odata

Community-run open-source catalog mirror (Purdue-io/PurdueApi)

Purdue Events

events.purdue.edu/api/2

Localist public API

BoilerLink

purdue.campuslabs.com/engage/api/discovery

Anthology Engage public discovery API

Purdue RecWell

goboardapi.azurewebsites.net (Connect2)

Live occupancy counters; account key is the one Purdue's own public widget ships

Purdue Libraries

calendar.lib.purdue.edu

Springshare LibCal public hours endpoints

Purdue Athletics

purduesports.com/website-api

Official athletics site's public JSON API

Purdue Newsroom / Registrar

purdue.edu/{newsroom,registrar}/wp-json

WordPress REST API

CityBus

bus.gocitybus.com GTFS

Static schedule feed; no public real-time feed exists

NOAA / NWS

api.weather.gov

Public federal API

Responses are cached in-process with short TTLs (30s–24h depending on how fast the data moves) to stay a polite client. Nothing is persisted to disk.

Ruled out (investigated, no public source)

  • Laundry machine availability — Purdue moved residence-hall laundry to CSCPay Mobile, which has no public web status page. The old washalertweb host the community app scraped no longer resolves.

  • Real-time bus positions — CityBus publishes GTFS static only. No GTFS-Realtime feed is listed on Transitland or the Mobility Database, and MyRide's backend is not public. bus_next_departures returns timetable times.

  • Parking garage availability — Purdue Parking publishes no live space counts.

  • Seat availability / waitlists — lives behind the myPurdue login. Out of scope by design.

Adding a source

Each source is one file in src/sources/ exporting a registerX(server) that calls server.registerTool(...). Register it in src/index.ts. Use getJSON() from src/lib/http.ts so you inherit the timeout, User-Agent, and cache.

Rules of the road:

  1. Public data only. Nothing that needs a Purdue login, and nothing about a specific individual.

  2. Verify the endpoint is live before shipping it — npm run smoke hits every real upstream and is the test suite.

  3. Be a polite client. Sensible cache TTL, no tight polling.

npm run build
npm run smoke   # live end-to-end check of all tools

License

MIT

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