Stackexchange MCP server
online · 100% uptimeSearch Stack Exchange questions, fetch Q&A threads as markdown, look up tag FAQs and user profiles.
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2 stars286 downloads/wk
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How Stackexchange compares
Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 93/100
- higher than 95% of 3,470 Web search servers
- Uptime
- 100%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%
- Response time
- 471 ms
- faster than 32% of 2,238 Web search servers
- GitHub stars
- 2
- more than 70% of 1,786 Web search servers
- Downloads a week
- 286
- more than 76% of 827 Web search servers with a package
Release history: 5 versions in the registry since 2026-09-10, latest 2026-10-28, typically one every 16 days.
Install Stackexchange in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http stackexchange-mcp-server https://stackexchange.caseyjhand.com/mcp
What the publisher says
From the Stackexchange repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
@cyanheads/stackexchange-mcp-server Search Stack Exchange questions, fetch complete Q&A threads as clean markdown, browse tag FAQs, and look up user profiles via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 5 Tools
Public Hosted Server: https://stackexchange.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Overview
Stack Exchange network access — Stack Overflow, Super User, Server Fault, Unix & Linux, and the wider network. Search questions, fetch complete Q&A threads as clean markdown, browse tag FAQs, and look up user profiles from any MCP client. Runs as a stdio process, a local Streamable HTTP server, or the public hosted endpoint above.
Tools
Capability reference
stackexchangesearchquestions tool
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Stackexchange: common questions
- Is Stackexchange MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (93/100). Read the Stackexchange safety report
- How do I install Stackexchange?
- It runs remotely at stackexchange.caseyjhand.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Stackexchange need an API key?
- No secret keys are declared. It reads 9 settings from the environment.
- Is Stackexchange maintained?
- The last commit was 46 days ago (2026-09-19). The latest release is v0.2.0.
- Is Stackexchange up?
- 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- What can I use instead of Stackexchange?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: searxNcrawl MCP server, Vadivam Icons MCP server and Markdown Vault MCP server.
- How does Stackexchange compare with other Web search MCP servers?
- safety score 93/100 (higher than 95% of 3,470 Web search servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%); response time 471 ms (faster than 32% of 2,238 Web search servers). Full comparison.
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