lookup-holiday

Remote MCP server (Cloudflare Workers) with one tool that looks up real public holidays:

• lookup_holiday — real holidays for a country (and optionally a state/subdivision and region) and year, from a rule-based calendar engine covering 206 countries. Moveable holidays (Easter, lunar calendars, "nth weekday of month" rules, etc.) are computed with real date arithmetic, not guessed by the model.

No database, no persistent state: each call builds a fresh McpServer (see createServer() in src/index.ts). The calendar engine is date-holidays, bundled directly into the Worker.

Data attribution

The holiday data (which dates are holidays, their names) comes from the date-holidays project and is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, since it's compiled from Wikipedia articles — see NOTICE and their LICENSE file for the full per-country attribution list. Only the code in this repository is MIT; see LICENSE.

Related MCP server: PH Holidays MCP

Billing (x402)

Charges per call via x402 — real USDC payment on Base mainnet, against the Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP) facilitator. The payment travels inside the MCP JSON-RPC itself (_meta), not as an HTTP header; see src/payments.ts.

An unpaid tools/call returns isError: true with the accepts (network, amount, payTo) the client needs to pay and retry — not an unexplained exception.

Structure

src/
  index.ts          # registers the tool in the McpServer and exposes the MCP HTTP handler
  payments.ts       # x402 billing on Base mainnet via the CDP facilitator
  tools/
    holiday.ts         # pure logic for lookup_holiday (testable without Workers)
    holiday.test.ts
scripts/
  dev-node.ts       # dev server that runs the handler in plain Node, no wrangler

Running it locally

⚠️ Note on wrangler dev: the real Cloudflare Workers runtime (workerd) requires macOS 13.5+. If your Mac has an older version, wrangler dev (and npm run dev) will fail. This project includes a plain-Node shim that runs the exact same fetch() handler without needing workerd.

1. Install dependencies

npm install

2. Run the unit tests

npm test

3a. If your wrangler dev works (macOS 13.5+, Linux, Windows)

npm run dev

3b. If wrangler dev fails because of the macOS version

npm run dev:node

Starts at http://localhost:8787/mcp, reading CDP credentials from ~/.mcp-tools-factory-credentials.env (shared across all tools in this factory).

4. Test with curl

# 1) initialize
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8787/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"curl-test","version":"0.0.1"}}}'

# 2) tools/list
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8787/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/list","params":{}}'

# 3) tools/call — lookup_holiday
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8787/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"lookup_holiday","arguments":{"country":"US","state":"TX","year":2026}}}'

Responses come as Server-Sent Events (event: message + data: {...}); the data: line is the usual JSON-RPC response.

Deploy and listings

Deployed at https://lookup-holiday.encodari.workers.dev/mcp (Cloudflare Workers). Published on the official MCP registry, Smithery, mcp.so, Glama, and with an open PR to awesome-mcp-servers.

What it doesn't do (yet)

• Charges on Base mainnet with real money. To switch back to testnet (Base Sepolia, eip155:84532) during development, change NETWORK in src/payments.ts.

• No database or persistent state between calls (beyond the billing config, cached in memory per isolate — see src/payments.ts).

• Doesn't model when a holiday was first introduced — a rule like "3rd Monday in January" is applied to any requested year even if the holiday didn't exist yet historically. Fine for scheduling near-term years; not a historical record.