Website Toolbox MCP

Chat with your forum using AI. The Website Toolbox MCP server lets you manage categories, topics, posts, users, and more through any MCP-compatible AI tool like Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Hermes Agent.

Install in Claude Desktop

1. Open Claude Desktop. If you don't have it, download it first.
2. Download the .mcpb bundle.
3. In Claude Desktop, go to Settings (click your name at the bottom left, then the gear icon), then click Extensions in the left sidebar.
4. Click Install from file and select the downloaded .mcpb file.
5. When prompted, enter your forum's API key. You can find it in your forum's admin area under Integrate → API.
6. Start a new conversation and ask something about your forum!

Features

| Resource | Tools | |---|---| | Categories | list, get, create, update, delete, list permissions, update permissions | | Topics | list, get, create, update, delete | | Posts | list, get, create, update, delete | | Users | list, get, create, update, delete, follow topics, unfollow topics | | User Groups | list, get, create, update, delete, add users, remove users | | Conversations | list, get, create, delete | | Messages | list, get, create | | Moderators | list, get, create, update, delete | | Tags | list | | Page Views | list |

For developers

Prerequisites

• Node.js ≥ 18

Install

From npm

npm install -g websitetoolbox-mcp

From source

git clone https://github.com/webtoolbox/websitetoolbox-mcp
cd websitetoolbox-mcp
npm install
npm run build

Configure

1. Get your API key from your forum's Integrate → API settings.

2. Set it as an environment variable:

export WEBSITETOOLBOX_API_KEY="your-api-key"

On Windows:

set WEBSITETOOLBOX_API_KEY=your-api-key

Or create a .env file (copy .env.example to .env and fill in your key).

3. Optional — act as a specific user:

   export WEBSITETOOLBOX_USERNAME="admin"
   export WEBSITETOOLBOX_EMAIL="[email protected]"

Claude Desktop (manual config)

Add to your Claude Desktop config (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "websitetoolbox": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["websitetoolbox-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "WEBSITETOOLBOX_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Other MCP clients

Run the server on stdio:

npx websitetoolbox-mcp

API Reference

This MCP server wraps the Website Toolbox REST API. See the full API documentation at https://www.websitetoolbox.com/docs/api/ or the API Documentation support article for details on authentication, endpoints, and rate limits.

License

MIT