Real-world MCP servers and APIs

See live aircraft positions picked up by a community network of ADS-B radio receivers.

See how clean Great Britain's electricity is right now and when it will be cleanest, nationally or by postcode.

Download trajectories and orbits of meteors filmed by a worldwide camera network.

Get the daily chess puzzle from Lichess, the free and open-source chess server.

Get active U.S. weather alerts and the official 7-day forecast for any U.S. location.

Check geomagnetic storms, solar wind, aurora chances and official space weather alerts.

Get high and low tide predictions and the latest measured water level at NOAA's U.S. tide stations.

Search and read 3D structures of proteins, DNA and RNA solved by labs worldwide.

Pull recordings and decoded telemetry from a worldwide network of volunteer satellite ground stations.

Look up any protein's function, genes, organism and sequence length in the UniProt knowledgebase.

Search the U.S. Geological Survey's worldwide earthquake catalog, updated within minutes of each quake.

Read live river flow and water levels from thousands of U.S. Geological Survey stream gauges.

Give the M5Stack Stack-chan desk robot expressions and actions controlled over MCP.

Order a private phone number in 200+ countries and receive SMS and calls on it.

Geocode, search places, route and compute travel-time areas with Mapbox, official.

Run power-system software such as PowerWorld and pandapower for grid studies.

Analyse KiCad schematics and PCBs and trace connections, from Seeed Studio.

Give an agent a phone number to make and receive calls and texts.

Run EnergyPlus building energy simulations, from Berkeley Lab.

Take snapshots and control Reolink cameras, doorbells and NVRs on your LAN, official.

Call Twilio's whole API as tools: send SMS, place calls and manage numbers, from Twilio Labs.

Have an agent phone any US business to book, ask availability or get a quote.

Query devices and telemetry on a ThingsBoard IoT platform, official.

Build and solve PyPSA energy-system models.

Build and manage Vapi voice agents that make real calls, from Vapi.

Get minute-level rain forecasts and weather from Caiyun (ColorfulClouds), official server.

Build circuits with Qiskit and run them on IBM Quantum hardware through qiskit-ibm-runtime, from the Qiskit team.

Search NASA's Earthdata catalogue for satellite datasets and granules covering a place and time.

Send SMS, RCS, WhatsApp and Viber messages through Infobip, official.

Design and order PCBs from an agent through HeyPCB.

Look up flight status and airport data from VariFlight, official.

Discover, configure and message through Meshtastic LoRa mesh radios, official server.

Create and order print-on-demand products through Hoplix.

Read whole-home and circuit-level electricity use from Emporia energy monitors, official.

Search the NASA Astrophysics Data System (SciX) for papers, citations and observations.

Send and receive SMS, WhatsApp, email and voice through Bird, official.

Get images and events from Safie cloud cameras, official.

Query NOIRLab, NRAO and other telescope archives for real observations.

Search NASA's Planetary Data System for mission data from planets, moons and small bodies.

Send real printed postcards by post.

Use Shippo's skills and MCP to compare rates and buy shipping labels, from Shippo.

Rent a private mailbox address that receives and scans physical mail.

Get live air quality, pollen, weather and wildfire data by location from Ambee.

Get forecasts, current conditions and severe-weather alerts by location.

Send protein sequences your agent designed to a wet lab and get real binding, expression or stability measurements back.

Get unfiltered live and historical aircraft tracking data from ADS-B receivers.

Get quotes for 3D printing, CNC and decals from a design and check out to have parts made and shipped.

Get current and forecast US air-quality index values by ZIP code or location.

Stream live ship positions and AIS messages over a WebSocket.

Run quantum circuits on real quantum processors from Rigetti, IQM, IonQ, AQT and QuEra.

Get air quality, pollen, wildfire and weather data by location.

Look up live APRS positions and weather reports from amateur-radio stations.

Read and write variables on Arduino boards connected to Arduino Cloud.

Get PM2.5 now, history and forecasts for 300+ cities from 12,000 rated sensors.

Submit jobs to several vendors' quantum hardware through Microsoft Azure.

Read and write lab notebook entries, samples, sequences and inventory.

Have an AI voice agent place real phone calls.

Get current and forecast carbon intensity of Great Britain's electricity grid by region.

Download current orbital elements (TLE/OMM) for tracked satellites to compute where they are.

Print and mail letters, postcards and certified mail through USPS.

Search and download Sentinel satellite imagery of any place on Earth.

Solve optimisation problems on D-Wave quantum annealers.

Connect DJI enterprise drones and docks to your own cloud to plan and run flights.

Get live US power-market prices, load, generation and weather.

Buy shipping labels, compare carrier rates and track parcels.

Get recent bird sightings and hotspots near any location.

Read and change ecobee thermostat settings and sensors.

Pull US electricity, fuel and grid statistics from the Energy Information Administration.

Get live and forecast carbon intensity and power mix for grids worldwide.

Run real wet-lab experiments on remote-controlled lab instruments.

Read solar production, consumption and battery data from Enphase systems.

Get live flight status, positions and history.

Read detected people, cars and animals, snapshots and clips from a Frigate camera system.

Search hundreds of millions of species occurrence records worldwide.

Run analysis over decades of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets.

Ground an agent's answers in Google Maps places and routes through Google's agent tools.

Geocode addresses, search places and get routes and travel times.

Read and set Nest thermostats and view Nest cameras and doorbells.

Expose your Home Assistant devices to an AI client over MCP, built into Home Assistant itself.

Read device states and call services such as turning lights on in a Home Assistant install.

Run circuits on IBM's real quantum computers.

Submit quantum circuits to IonQ trapped-ion quantum computers and simulators.

Run circuits on IQM superconducting quantum computers over the cloud.

Order manufactured printed circuit boards from Gerber files.

Get precise positions and ephemerides for planets, moons, comets and spacecraft at any time.

Look up asteroid and comet orbits, close approaches to Earth and fireball reports from NASA JPL.

Give your agent a phone line that can place calls to businesses and answer incoming calls.

Tune hundreds of volunteer-run shortwave receivers around the world and record what they hear.

Look up upcoming and past rocket launches, crews and space events.

Record, train and run control policies on low-cost robot arms such as SO-101.

Send real postcards and letters through the mail with an API call.

Geocode, route, compute travel-time isochrones and render maps.

Track ship positions, port calls and voyages.

Command PX4 drones over MAVLink: take off, fly missions, land and read telemetry.

Control and monitor a Klipper 3D printer: jobs, temperatures, files and G-code.

Get satellite positions, TLEs and visible-pass predictions over any location, including the ISS.

Get satellite-detected active fires and hotspots for any area, updated within hours.

Pull NASA imagery and data such as the Astronomy Picture of the Day, Mars rover photos, near-Earth asteroids and DONKI space-weather events.

Get forecasts, hourly forecasts, observations and active weather alerts for any US point.

Read real-time wave, wind and water-temperature readings from ocean buoys.

Read live solar wind, Kp index, aurora forecasts and space-weather alerts from NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.

Get tide predictions, water levels and currents for US coastal stations.

Upload G-code, start, pause and monitor jobs on an OctoPrint-connected 3D printer.

Read smart-meter consumption and current tariff prices, including half-hourly Agile rates.

Find EV charging stations and their connectors anywhere in the world.

Drive a real scanning electron microscope over the internet to image a sample you posted to England.

Get global weather forecasts, historical weather, marine and air-quality data with no key.

Read air-quality sensor readings (PM2.5, ozone, NO2) from stations worldwide.

Get live aircraft positions from a crowdsourced ADS-B receiver network.

Upload and run protocols on an Opentrons liquid-handling robot over the lab network.

Get current weather, forecasts and air pollution for any coordinates.

Call functions and read variables on Particle IoT devices in the field.

Order prototype printed circuit boards from Gerber files.

Control Hue lights, scenes and sensors on a Hue Bridge.

Point a 1.5 m radio telescope at the sky and get a hydrogen-line observation back.

Search, order and stream daily satellite imagery of the Earth.

Mail in a DNA sample and get its full plasmid sequence back.

Make calls and send SMS; calls from $0.0010/min outbound in the US.

Send real letters, postcards and cheques by post from an API call.

Manage a Bambu print farm, AMS units and print queue, vendor-hosted.

Create print-on-demand products and send orders to be printed and shipped.

Read live PM2.5 readings from a dense network of low-cost air sensors.

Run circuits on Quantinuum H-series trapped-ion quantum computers.

Fetch live and recent weather-radar map tiles.

Download seismograms from thousands of citizen seismometers worldwide.

Operate world-class ham radio stations remotely from a web browser.

Build AI phone agents that call and answer real numbers.

Run programs on Rigetti superconducting quantum processors.

Hand a phone call to a vetted human who dials and reports the outcome.

Upload a CAD file and get laser-cut metal or plastic parts shipped to you.

Request processed Sentinel and Landsat satellite images for an area and date range.

Switch Shelly relays and plugs and read power meters on the local network or cloud.

Buy shipping labels from many carriers and track packages.

Buy existing satellite images or order a new satellite photo of any place on Earth.

Read location, odometer and battery and lock or unlock cars from many brands.

Control and read SmartThings-connected devices and scenes.

Send printed postcards and letters in the US and UK.

Book time on research-grade remote telescopes in Australia, Chile, the USA and Spain, pick a target and filters, and download the images.

Run robotic life-science experiments in a cloud lab.

Make and receive phone calls and texts over Telnyx's own network.

Read a Tesla's location, battery and status and send commands such as unlock or start charging.

Get hyperlocal forecasts and 60+ weather data layers.

Play real claw machines in Japan over live video and have won prizes shipped home.

Look up transit agencies, routes, stops and departures from GTFS feeds worldwide.

Control Tuya / Smart Life devices such as plugs, bulbs and sensors.

Place and receive phone calls and SMS from code.

Order synthetic DNA (genes or gene fragments) made to your sequence.

Query earthquakes by time, place and magnitude, worldwide and in real time.

Read real-time river flow, gauge height and groundwater levels from thousands of US stream gauges.

Validate addresses, get postage prices and track mail with the US Postal Service.

Build voice agents that make and answer real phone calls.

Read camera footage links, access-control events and sensor data from Verkada.

Control robots, arms, rovers and cameras and read their sensors through one cloud API.

Place and control phone calls programmatically.

Get current weather, forecasts, astronomy and marine data by city or coordinates.

Get conditions, forecasts and severe-weather alerts from Vaisala Xweather, hosted by the vendor.

Control and query everything in a Home Assistant install: lights, locks, climate, automations.

Run a WhatsApp REST API with an MCP mode to send and receive messages.

Create and edit 3D CAD models in FreeCAD for printing or machining.

Design circuit boards in KiCad: schematics, placement, routing and DRC.

Command ROS and ROS 2 robots: publish topics, call services and read sensors.

Read your Garmin watch data: activities, sleep, heart rate and more.

Query and manage UniFi Network and Protect: cameras, events and devices.

Automate EasyEDA Pro schematics, PCB layout and checks.

Control TP-Link Tapo plugs, bulbs and sensors.

Let a coding agent build and edit Home Assistant automations, dashboards and configs.

Control Home Assistant devices and automations.

Self-host AI phone agents that answer and place calls.

Search places, get routes, travel times and geocode addresses with Google Maps.

Ask questions of robot, drone and IoT logs (ROS bags, PX4 logs) in plain English.

Read states and control devices in Home Assistant.

Read and send iMessages and SMS from a Mac.

Drive a live Altium Designer session from an agent.

Connect several robots and command them from one CLI and MCP server.

Read and send WhatsApp messages from your own account.

Have an agent place real phone calls with OpenAI Realtime and Twilio and report back.

Automate JLC EDA (EasyEDA) schematics and PCB layout, routing and DRC.

Slice STL files and send, start and watch prints on Bambu Lab 3D printers.

Upload, slice, start and monitor prints on OctoPrint, Klipper, Duet, Prusa, Bambu and other 3D printers.

Get current weather for a city through WeatherAPI.

Send and receive real email, SMS and phone calls from an agent.

Run 3D printers end to end: design, slice, queue, print and watch with a camera.

Query satellite imagery and Earth observation analyses as a 'virtual satellite' over any area.

Let an agent ring your phone over VoIP and talk to you.

Flash and debug ARM and RISC-V microcontrollers through probe-rs or OpenOCD.

Generate printable 3D models with OpenSCAD from a prompt.

Run geospatial operations (buffers, projections, distances) on real-world geometry.

Build and run robot simulations in NVIDIA Isaac Sim.

Control HomeKit lights, locks, thermostats and scenes.

Route AI and 30+ API extensions over an off-grid Meshtastic mesh network.

Bridge ROS robots to Claude, Codex and other agents.

Read WHOOP recovery, sleep, HRV and strain.

Bridge any MCP client to a Stack-chan robot with servo and camera.

Drive KiCad schematic and PCB work with ERC/DRC checks and manufacturing export.

Build and flash ESP32 firmware with ESP-IDF from an agent.

Query your Tesla's drives, charging and battery history from TeslaMate.

Create sketches, extrusions and exports in Autodesk Fusion 360.

Search JLCPCB/LCSC parts with stock and price for PCB assembly.

Read sleep, readiness and activity from an Oura ring.

Control your Sonos speakers on the local network.

Analyse vibration sensor data to spot machine faults.

See, understand and operate ROS 2 robots from an agent.

Talk to serial/UART devices and automate exchanges.

Get public-transit routes and arrivals from GTFS feeds.

Ask NASA's open APIs for space imagery, asteroid approaches, Mars rover photos and space-weather events.

Load models into OrcaSlicer, set print settings and slice to G-code.

Send navigation goals to a mobile robot and monitor it through Nav2.

Command a Unitree Go2 robot dog through ROS 2.

Expose Home Assistant over MCP as a custom component inside HA.

Run an all-sky camera around the clock and search the footage for meteors, satellites and other things that crossed the sky.

Design and print ZPL labels on Zebra-compatible label printers.

Get forecasts, historical weather, air quality, marine and flood data from Open-Meteo, no key needed.

Run Qiskit and quantum workflows from an agent workspace with MCP tools.

Let an agent make real calls from your own Android phone's SIM.

Get current weather and forecasts for any city from Open-Meteo.

Answer questions about OCPP EV-charging protocols and standards.

Manage a fleet of Bambu Lab printers: start, pause and monitor jobs.

Control LG, Samsung and other smart TVs and play shows by name.

Get forecasts, alerts, air quality, wildfire and river data through 17 weather tools with no API keys.

Analyse chess games with Stockfish and explain mistakes on a web board.

Download MeteoSwiss station readings, radar, hail and forecast data.

Drive Ansys/AGI STK to build satellite scenarios and compute orbits, access windows and coverage.

Control the instruments in a quantum-device physics lab (QCoDeS-style setups).

Control a Loxone Miniserver and stream its live states.

Map rooms with 2D lidar SLAM and remember named places for a robot.

Run Google Earth Engine analyses of satellite imagery from Claude.

Build, flash and manage ESPHome devices.

Administer a Zigbee2MQTT network: device health, mesh diagnostics and OTA updates.

Create Printful print-on-demand products and send orders to be printed and shipped.

Control an RTL-SDR or HackRF radio: tune, scan spectrum and decode ADS-B aircraft and other signals.

Search Japanese train routes and transfers.

Run precise OpenStreetMap geocoding, routing and nearby-place queries.

Take pictures with an ESP32-CAM board from an agent.

Move the Reachy Mini robot's head and antennas and make it react.

Design LEGO-style brick builds and see them rendered.

Control Xiaomi Mi Home devices.

Get real-time flight status and schedules from AviationStack.

Look at the world through live webcams, sunrise and sunset times and wildlife sightings.

Turn a PCB idea into a KiCad board ready for JLCPCB fabrication.

Fly a drone over MAVLink: arm, take off, go to waypoints and land.

Publish and subscribe to MQTT topics to talk to IoT devices.

Control items and rules in openHAB.

Control an Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3D printer.

Control a Bambu Lab printer over MQTT and FTP: upload files and start prints.

Operate real lab instruments from an agent with safety interlocks.

Read your car's OBD-II trouble codes and live data, read-only.

Discover, monitor and switch Shelly devices on your LAN.

Control a Prusa 3D printer from Claude, from slicing to printing.

Control an Anki Vector robot: drive, speak and use its camera.

Scan, connect and read Bluetooth Low Energy devices.

Control devices on a Hubitat Elevation hub, running on the hub itself.

Track aircraft, ships and satellites in real time from one set of tools.

Track 3D-printer filament spools and usage in Spoolman.

Send and track faxes through an ICTFax server.

Get live and recorded video from a video-surveillance system.

Design buildable LEGO models as validated LDraw files.

Ask a Frigate NVR what its cameras detected and pull snapshots.

List printers and print files on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Identify LEGO parts, sets and minifigures from a photo with Brickognize.

Control a Control4 smart home in natural language.

Control a real telescope mount and observatory gear (OnStep) from an AI agent.

Print documents on a local printer through CUPS on macOS or Linux.

Physically tap a smartphone with a robot arm driven by an agent.

Query Frigate camera events, clips and snapshots.

Bridge ham and GMRS radios to Mumble, Broadcastify and Winlink and control them from an agent.

Compile LEGO models from descriptions for agents.

Control a LeCroy oscilloscope over SCPI and read measurements.

Nest 2D parts on sheets for laser, CNC, plasma and waterjet cutting.

Plan a sailing passage with per-leg wind, wave and ETA forecasts.

Control a Keysight/Agilent oscilloscope over Ethernet and capture waveforms.

Plan EV road trips with charging stops via A Better Route Planner.

Turn Govee lights on and off and set colours.

Connect PLCs and devices over Modbus, OPC UA and more to an agent.

Pull coastal oceanography data such as water levels and model output.

Read aircraft seen by your own ADS-B feeder (readsb / tar1090).

Control HomeMatic devices through a CCU.

Search and download ESA Copernicus Sentinel satellite products.

Get vessel positions, port calls and ETAs from MarineTraffic.

Remote-control a MiSTer FPGA retro console: load games and send input.

Geocode, reverse geocode and run Overpass queries on OpenStreetMap.

Pull live satellite imagery, weather, elevation and OpenStreetMap data into QGIS.

Tune an RTL-SDR, see spectrum and waterfall, listen to FM and demodulate with GNU Radio.

Start, stop and schedule SharkClean robot vacuums.

Serve and query satellite two-line element sets, the backend for the TLE API on api.nasa.gov.

Track ships by AIS, with schedules and maritime data.

Query ocean and atmosphere datasets from NOAA, IOOS, NDBC buoys and Argo floats.

Run an MCP server on an Axis network camera itself to read and control it.

Get UK National Rail train times and live departures.

Run high-content microscopy image-processing workflows.

Submit circuits to real quantum hardware and simulators in natural language.

Control a Siglent SDS oscilloscope and capture screenshots and data.

Plan Swiss public-transport journeys with real-time departures.

Get live Uber fares and request rides with a confirmation step.

Read live solar, battery, grid and inverter data from a Victron GX device.

Check near-real-time New York MTA subway arrivals.

Drive cheap USB bench instruments such as oscilloscopes and power supplies over SCPI.

Get real-time European and UK electricity grid data: prices, generation and flows.

Fly ArduPilot drones over MAVLink from Claude or Codex.

Get USPS and UPS rates and buy labels through Pirate Ship.

Jog, home and run G-code on a CNC machine through Universal G-code Sender.

Read and write amateur-radio contact logs in ADIF format.

Compute planet and Moon positions, rise and set times, phases and eclipses for any location, offline.

Check live road conditions and the best time to leave in 37 US states.

Send real faxes of PDFs and images through FaxDrop.

Connect an agent to many kinds of lab equipment through one server.

Read and command your Tesla through the Tesla Fleet API and TeslaMate.

Search NOAA climate stations and pull historical weather observations.

Get planetary positions from NASA JPL ephemerides through the OpenEphemeris API.

Search RepeaterBook for amateur-radio repeaters near a location.

Talk to the TEAM 0.5 transmission electron microscope at the Molecular Foundry.

Read solar, battery and ESS data from the Victron VRM cloud.

Find live public webcams worldwide and get their images.

Talk to ArduPilot vehicles over MAVLink, simulator first.

Read which birds a BirdNET-Go microphone station has heard and when.

Read NOAA space-weather data: geomagnetic storm scales, Kp index and aurora forecasts.

Read solar flux, sunspot number, Kp and space-weather alerts, for radio propagation or aurora hunting.

Look up deep-sky objects and plan an observing session for what is visible from your site tonight.

Search USGS and EMSC earthquake feeds and query past quakes by place and magnitude.

Point, zoom and track with an OBSBOT Tiny 2 camera.

Find air-quality stations and read latest and historical pollutant values from OpenAQ.

Find real-time fuel and EV charging prices and stations.

Read the state of an ABB industrial robot controller, read-only.

Send direct mail pieces from an agent with one tool call.

Detect and monitor wildfires using NASA FIRMS, OpenWeatherMap and Earth Engine data.

Get clips and status from Blink home cameras.

Get the International Space Station's current latitude and longitude.

See which amateur-radio stations heard which signals, for live propagation data.

Get the ISS position, altitude, velocity and visibility at any timestamp.