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Enables AI assistants to search YouTube, fetch transcripts, and get AI summaries of videos without API keys.

Enables searching for cocktail recipes by name or ingredients using the API Ninjas Cocktail API, supporting partial matches and ingredient-based filtering.

Enables users to search for and retrieve detailed information about celebrities from the API Ninjas database. Supports filtering results by name, nationality, net worth range, and height.

Enables agents to search starter-track metadata, retrieve original scene templates, and prepare editable playlist-video drafts with optional captions and a browser workspace URL.

Enables AI assistants to search YouTube videos using the official YouTube Data API v3, extract full video transcripts in multiple languages, and store/retrieve video summaries using a local database.

Enables users to fetch random jokes from the API Ninjas Jokes API. Supports retrieving 1-30 jokes per request through a simple interface.

Evidence-first YouTube research server enabling search, transcript citation, video analysis, flashcards, and collateral generation for MCP hosts and VS Code.

A sequential thinking tool based on the MCP protocol, used to break down complex problems into manageable steps and provide intelligent tool recommendations for each step.

Enables AI-assisted MIDI music generation and composition through natural language, supporting style, tempo, key, and instrument selection.

Set up Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV boxes over ADB on the local network: discover and pair boxes, set any launcher as the HOME app, install apps, take screenshots and run checks. No raw shell tool; the tools that change the box ask before they run.

Provides tools to search and retrieve news across various categories including business, technology, science, and sports via the Google News API. It supports keyword searches, autocomplete suggestions, and region-specific news across multiple languages.

Enables comprehensive YouTube data access including video details, playlists, channels, comments, search, and subtitle operations through the YouTube Media Downloader API.

Enables downloading MP3 audio files from YouTube videos by providing a YouTube URL through the Youtube Mp310 API.

Enables access to YouTube data including channel videos, live streams, shorts, video details, transcripts, screenshots, and related content through the Yt API with support for localization and pagination.

Enables access to the Chuck Norris API to retrieve Chuck Norris jokes and facts through a Model Context Protocol interface.

Enables access to the Deezer 1 API through MCP protocol. Requires API key authentication and supports integration with Cursor and Claude Desktop for interacting with Deezer services.

Provides access to the Youtube138 API for searching videos, retrieving channel information, viewing comments, getting video details, and exploring trending content on YouTube.

Connects a personal Trakt account to Claude or Codex so users can get personalized movie and TV recommendations, review watched history and play counts, and search for titles by natural language. Access is read-only and never modifies Trakt history or ratings.

Extracts captions, metadata, and descriptions from YouTube videos to enable AI assistants to summarize their content.

Enables browsing Hacker News feeds, retrieving stories and flattened comment threads by id, full-text and date-filtered story search, and user profile lookups through five read-only tools backed by the Firebase and Algolia APIs. Comment trees are returned breadth-first with explicit truncation reporting so results stay useful when caps are hit.

Enables AI assistants to search and audit a Serato DJ library by BPM and Camelot key, browse crates, detect duplicates and missing files, and stage new crates for review before writing.

Enables querying YouTube gaming opportunity rankings to answer 'what should I record?' by providing tools for top games, game breakdowns with AI video ideas, and live topic checks.

A lightweight MCP server that serves a curated collection of cat jokes to LLM clients, supporting tools for random jokes by category, search, and resource access.

Context7 MCP is a service that provides developers with the latest code documentation and examples. By integrating into the development environment, it ensures that the code generated by LLMS is based on the latest library documentation.

Enables MCP clients such as Claude, Cursor, and VS Code Copilot to search more than 50,000 internet radio stations by name, genre, country, or language and retrieve their direct stream URLs. It also surfaces the most popular and trending stations along with country and genre listings, with no API key or account required.

Enables secure local management of Yoto cards, devices, and audio uploads through the official Yoto API, using OAuth PKCE authentication with read-only tools enabled by default and opt-in writes.

An MCP server that searches and downloads royalty-free images from Pixabay by keyword, with support for custom image size and safe search.

A group of model context protocol servers provide cognitive enhancement tools for large language models.

A lightweight service that provides cross conversation temporary information storage and retrieval for AI agents, supporting step-by-step processing of complex tasks.

Enables users to manage their anime and manga library by searching media, viewing profiles, lists, and statistics, and adding or updating entries with confirmation safeguards through an MCP-compatible AI harness over local stdio or authenticated HTTP.