HList AI Tools MCP server

hlist.cc

A 4-language (EN / 中文 / 日本語 / 한국어) directory of AI tools, updated daily. Every listing includes its category, pricing tier (verified against the official pricing page), and a China-accessibility field (ok / unstable / blocked / unknown) — the only AI tools directory that publishes it.

Live: https://hlist.cc

For AI agents

The whole corpus is machine-readable. Three exits, all public and keyless:

# MCP endpoint — search 300+ AI tools
curl -X POST https://hlist.cc/api/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call",
       "params":{"name":"search_ai_tools","arguments":{"category":"code"}}}'

• MCP server: https://hlist.cc/api/mcp (no key, no rate limit) — tools: searchaitools, gettool, listcategories; optional lang param for en/zh/ja/ko descriptions
• Full dataset: https://hlist.cc/api/v1/tools.json — one record per tool (slug, category, pricing, cn_access, GitHub stars, verified date)
• Subsets: https://hlist.cc/api/v1/tools.json?cnaccess=ok / ?category=video / ?pricingtier=free (combinable)
• LLM index: https://hlist.cc/llms.txt (with a "citable facts" block at the top)
• Usage stats: https://hlist.cc/api/v1/mcp-stats.json (which agents are calling, by day)

Listed in the official MCP Registry, Glama, and Smithery.

Data pipeline

This repo powers the site:

• Front: Astro (static, ~2,200 pages) on Cloudflare Pages, 4 languages with hreflang
• Collect: nightly pipeline (06:00 UTC on a dedicated server) pulls candidates from GitHub Trending, HuggingFace Spaces, and HN, runs a verification gate (website resolves + screenshot + data field confirmed), generates 4-language pages, builds, and deploys with regression checks
• Data exits: llms.txt / tools.json / MCP are regenerated at build time from the same content
• User data: D1 (submissions, votes, comments, AI-crawler + MCP hit logs)
• IndexNow: pushed on every deploy

Methodology (short version)

A tool is published only after its official website resolves, a screenshot is captured, and at least one data field (pricing / category / description) is confirmed. Pricing is verified against the vendor's official pricing page, not scraped from aggregators. The China-accessibility field is a point-in-time probe from a mainland-China egress, so it is a 4-value field (ok / unstable / blocked / unknown), not a yes/no. Full method: https://hlist.cc/about/

Sponsor

Featured listings, expedited review, and newsletter sponsorship: https://hlist.cc/sponsor/