ReefAPI MCP
One MCP server for 250+ live web-data APIs — e-commerce and marketplaces, social media, real estate, jobs, travel, news, finance, and company/domain intelligence. The assistant discovers the right engine, then pulls clean JSON from public pages that are hard to scrape (JavaScript rendering, anti-bot).
Emitting one tool per API blows past the ~30–50-tool ceiling where agents stop picking the right tool. ReefAPI uses dynamic discovery instead: five generic tools let the assistant find the right engine, then call it. Discovery is keyless; only call_engine needs a key. Failed or blocked calls cost nothing.
| Tool | Keyless | What it does |
|---|
search_engines(query) | ✅ | Ranks the catalog against English keywords or a short use-case ("company reviews", "is this domain free") and returns the best-matching engines with their actions. |
get_catalog() | ✅ | Returns the full menu — every engine with a one-line title, grouped by category — so the model can pick semantically when a keyword search misses. |
get_engine_schema(engine) | ✅ | Compact overview of one engine: each action with its description, required params, and return shape, kept lean so a large engine stays token-cheap. |
get_action_schema(engine, action) | ✅ | Full detail for a single action: every parameter with type, allowed values, default, example, plus pricing and ready-to-run example params. |
call_engine(engine, action, params) | 🔑 | Runs the action and returns the uniform { ok, data, meta, error } envelope. |
The intended path is search_engines (or get_catalog) → get_engine_schema → get_action_schema → call_engine.
Connect (remote — recommended)
Add to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, or any client that takes a remote MCP URL:
{
"mcpServers": {
"reefapi": {
"url": "https://api.reefapi.com/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_REEFAPI_KEY" }
}
}
}
Claude Code (CLI):
claude mcp add --transport http reefapi https://api.reefapi.com/mcp \
--header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_REEFAPI_KEY"
Get a free key (1,000 credits, no card) at https://reefapi.com.
Run it locally (stdio)
pip install -r requirements.txt
export REEFAPI_KEY=ak_live_your_key
python server.py
Then point your client at python /path/to/server.py. The same file also serves the streamable-HTTP
transport with MCP_TRANSPORT=streamable-http (used by the hosted endpoint above).
What you can ask
Each example below is answered by one engine; the link goes to that engine's parameters and response shape.
- "What are people saying about the new iPhone on Reddit?" →
reddit
- "Get current Zillow listings in Austin under $500k." →
zillow
- "Is the domain
coolstartup.ai available?" → domain-availability
- "Compare Amazon prices for AirPods Pro." →
amazon
- "Top Hacker News stories right now." →
hackernews
- "What tech stack does stripe.com run on?" →
domain-intel
- "Find remote backend jobs posted this week." →
global-jobs
You never have to name the engine yourself — that is what search_engines is for. The links are there for
when you want to see the exact params and fields before wiring a call.
Coverage
250+ engines across E-commerce, Social Media, Real Estate, Jobs, Travel, News, Finance,
Media/Film, Reputation/Reviews, Company/Domain intelligence, and developer utilities.
Browse the full catalog at reefapi.com/docs, or call get_catalog() for the
live list. A few of the most-used ones:
| Engine | Returns |
|---|
amazon | Product search, listing detail, prices, variants and reviews |
ebay | Listings, item detail and sold/completed pricing |
aliexpress | Product search and detail, including per-SKU pricing and images |
zillow | For-sale and rental listings, property detail and value estimates |
redfin | Listings and market data as a second US real-estate source |
reddit | Subreddit and keyword search, post detail and comment threads |
bluesky | Posts, profiles and search across the AT Protocol network |
glassdoor | Company reviews, ratings and salary data |
trustpilot | Business profiles and customer reviews with ratings |
indeed | Job search and posting detail across country sites |
domain-intel | DNS, WHOIS and detected tech stack for a domain |
news-intel | Article search and extraction across news sources |
Every engine returns the same { ok, data, meta, error } envelope and draws on one shared credit pool.
Coming from another provider
Side-by-side pages with published prices on both sides and findings from our own live calls,
including the cases where the other tool is the better pick:
Bright Data ·
DataForSEO ·
SerpApi ·
Apify ·
Oxylabs ·
ScraperAPI ·
ScrapingBee ·
ZenRows ·
Zyte ·
Firecrawl ·
Diffbot ·
Octoparse ·
ParseHub
License
MIT — see LICENSE. The APIs are a hosted service with a free tier; see https://reefapi.com.