Wikibooks Cookbook MCP server

mcp-wikibooks-cookbook

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The Cookbook is the recipe collection of the English Wikibooks, a Wikimedia project. Thousands of recipes are written and maintained there in the open, each with its ingredients, the equipment it calls for, its steps, the tips and variations its authors added, and the categories it files itself under: a cuisine, a kind of dish, a main ingredient. The pages are published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.

This server connects a chat client to that collection. You can search the recipes by dish or by ingredient, list them by cuisine, kind of dish or main ingredient, read one with its ingredients rescaled to the number of people at your table, and rescale any ingredient list of your own. It needs no API key and no account.

Version française

Install

One-click install

Claude Code

claude mcp add wikibooks-cookbook -- npx -y mcp-wikibooks-cookbook

Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any client using the standard config format

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikibooks-cookbook": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-wikibooks-cookbook"]
    }
  }
}

Node 24 or later is required, and no environment variable has to be set.

With Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikibooks-cookbook": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "ghcr.io/smeet666/mcp-wikibooks-cookbook:2.1.0"]
    }
  }
}

-i keeps stdin open, which is where the protocol travels, and -t is left out because a TTY rewrites the stream. The container needs outbound HTTPS to api.wikimedia.org, and nothing else: no volume, no port, no credential.

Bundle, without npm

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.