Remote MCP servers
43,177 servers you connect by URL over streamable HTTP. Nothing to install or keep running on your machine.
43,177 servers you connect by URL over streamable HTTP. Nothing to install or keep running on your machine.
A remote MCP server runs on someone else's infrastructure and your client connects to it by URL over streamable HTTP (older servers use SSE). Sign-in usually happens through OAuth in the browser instead of an API key in a config file.
Local servers run as a process on your machine and can reach your files and private network. Remote servers need no runtime and update themselves, but your data goes to the provider. Pick remote for SaaS products, local for files, databases on your network and anything offline.
In Claude Code run claude mcp add --transport http <name> <url>. In Cursor and Gemini CLI add the URL under mcpServers; in VS Code add it under servers with "type": "http". Each server page has the exact config.
DBLP MCP — Computer Science bibliography
$claude mcp add mcp-dblp -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-dblpDBnomics MCP — meta-aggregator over 80+ stats providers
$claude mcp add mcp-dbnomics -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-dbnomicsdeps.dev MCP — Google's package metadata + dependency graph API.
$claude mcp add mcp-deps-dev -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-deps-devDOAJ MCP — Directory of Open Access Journals
$claude mcp add mcp-doaj -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-doajEBI OLS4 MCP — Ontology Lookup Service.
$claude mcp add mcp-ebi-ols -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ebi-olseBird MCP — Cornell Lab of Ornithology citizen-science bird observations
$claude mcp add mcp-ebird -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ebirdECB Data Portal MCP — European Central Bank statistical data
$claude mcp add mcp-ecb -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ecbEnsembl REST MCP.
$claude mcp add mcp-ensembl -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ensemblFrench Companies MCP — recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr
$claude mcp add mcp-entreprises-fr -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-entreprises-frENTSO-E Transparency Platform MCP
$claude mcp add mcp-entso-e -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-entso-eEncyclopedia of Life (EOL) MCP
$claude mcp add mcp-eol -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-eolEPO Open Patent Services MCP
$claude mcp add mcp-epo-ops -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-epo-opse-Stat (Japan) MCP — government statistics
$claude mcp add mcp-estat-japan -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-estat-japanEtherscan MCP — multichain block-explorer API (Etherscan V2)
$claude mcp add mcp-etherscan -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-etherscanEurope PMC MCP — biomedical literature.
$claude mcp add mcp-europepmc -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-europepmcFBI Crime Data Explorer MCP — UCR/NIBRS statistics
$claude mcp add mcp-fbi-crime -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-fbi-crimeFeodo Tracker MCP — botnet C&C IP blocklist from abuse.ch.
$claude mcp add mcp-feodotracker -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-feodotrackerFlickr public feeds MCP — keyless slice of the Flickr API.
$claude mcp add mcp-flickr-public -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-flickr-publicFMI MCP — Finnish Meteorological Institute open WFS.
$claude mcp add mcp-fmi -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-fmiFoursquare Places MCP — migrated to the 2025 Places API
$claude mcp add mcp-foursquare -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-foursquare