PDFMakerAPI MCP server

PDFMakerAPI MCP server

An MCP server for PDFMakerAPI. It exposes a single createdocument tool that turns a plain-English document description into a shareable link** which opens in the PDFMakerAPI editor — preview it, edit any field, and download the PDF.

Works with Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Zed, VS Code, ChatGPT, and any other MCP client. It's a thin client of the public API at https://api.pdfmakerapi.com, so it needs no account or credentials of its own.

What is PDFMakerAPI?

PDFMakerAPI is a PDF template builder and PDF generation API. Instead of hard-coding documents or wrestling with HTML-to-PDF converters that break when your content changes, you design a reusable template once in a visual, no-code editor — placing text, tables, images, and dynamic fields exactly where you want them — then feed it data to produce a finished, editable PDF.

Generate a single document or thousands. Fill a template in yourself, share a link so anyone completes it in the browser as a fillable PDF form, send JSON to the REST API, trigger generation from no-code tools like Zapier, Make, and n8n, or create documents straight from AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT. Prefer to start from a prompt? Describe what you need and let Quill build it.

Teams use PDFMakerAPI for invoices, receipts, certificates, reports, and contracts — anything you'd otherwise rebuild by hand every time the data changes. Start building free with 100 PDFs a month.

Quick install

One-click:

Or add the same config manually (works in every desktop client):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdfmakerapi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pdfmakerapi/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Setup by client

Claude Desktop

Settings → Developer → Edit Config (claudedesktopconfig.json), add the mcpServers block above, and restart Claude.

Cursor

Use the Add to Cursor button, or add the block to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) or .cursor/mcp.json (per-project).

Windsurf

Add the block to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json (or via Settings → Cascade → MCP).

Cline

Cline → MCP Servers → Configure, and add the mcpServers block.

VS Code

Use the Install in VS Code button, or add to .vscode/mcp.json (note: VS Code uses a servers key):

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.