Dumpling AI MCP Server

What does “Dumpling AI” MCP Server do?

The Dumpling AI MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server acts as a bridge between AI assistants and a broad suite of external data sources, APIs, and developer tools. It is purpose-built to enhance AI-assisted development workflows by enabling capabilities such as data scraping, content processing, and knowledge management alongside seamless integration with Dumpling AI services. With features for running secure agent code, extracting information from diverse documents, and interacting with APIs for sources like YouTube, maps, news, and more, the Dumpling AI MCP Server empowers AI clients to perform tasks including web scraping, file conversion, rich data extraction, and automated knowledge base management. This extensibility makes it an effective tool for automating and scaling up routine developer and researcher workflows.

List of Prompts

No explicit prompt templates are documented in the repository.

List of Resources

No explicit MCP resources are documented in the repository.

List of Tools

• get-youtube-transcript: Fetches the transcript from a specified YouTube video, enabling language models to access video content as text.
• (Many more tools likely exist for scraping, search, autocomplete, document conversion, and more, but only get-youtube-transcript is directly listed in the README.)

Use Cases of this MCP Server

• YouTube Video Analysis: Retrieve and analyze transcripts of YouTube videos for content summarization, sentiment analysis, or knowledge extraction.
• Web Scraping and Structured Data Extraction: Automate data collection and structuring from websites for research, lead generation, or monitoring.
• Document Conversion and Text Extraction: Convert PDFs, videos, or images into text for further AI analysis, summarization, or storage in knowledge bases.
• AI Agent Code Execution: Securely run JavaScript and Python code snippets for automated data processing, computation, or integration with external APIs.
• Knowledge Base Management: Automatically extract, process, and organize information from various content types to maintain up-to-date knowledge stores for AI assistants.

How to set it up

Windsurf

No Windsurf-specific setup instructions found in the repository.

Claude

1. Install Smithery CLI if not already present.
2. Run:

   npx -y @smithery/cli install @Dumpling-AI/mcp-server-dumplingai --client claude
   

3. Provide your Dumpling AI API key as an environment variable (DUMPLING_API_KEY).
4. Launch Claude Desktop and verify the MCP server is available as a tool.
5. Test by invoking a Dumpling AI command.

JSON Configuration Example:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dumplingai": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-server-dumplingai"],
      "env": {
        "DUMPLING_API_KEY": "<your-api-key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

1. Open Cursor Settings.
2. Navigate to Features > MCP Servers.
3. Click “+ Add New MCP Server”.
4. Enter your MCP server configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dumplingai": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-server-dumplingai"],
      "env": {
        "DUMPLING_API_KEY": "<your-api-key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

5. Save and restart Cursor if necessary.
6. Verify by running a Dumpling AI-powered tool.

Cline

No Cline-specific setup instructions found in the repository.

Securing API Keys

• Always provide your DUMPLING_API_KEY using environment variables within the env field of your MCP server configuration block. Example:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dumplingai": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-server-dumplingai"],
      "env": {
        "DUMPLING_API_KEY": "your_api_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

How to use this MCP inside flows

Using MCP in FlowHunt

To integrate MCP servers into your FlowHunt workflow, start by adding the MCP component to your flow and connecting it to your AI agent:

Click on the MCP component to open the configuration panel. In the system MCP configuration section, insert your MCP server details using this JSON format:

{
  "dumplingai": {
    "transport": "streamable_http",
    "url": "https://yourmcpserver.example/pathtothemcp/url"
  }
}

Once configured, the AI agent is now able to use this MCP as a tool with access to all its functions and capabilities. Remember to change “dumplingai” to whatever the actual name of your MCP server is and replace the URL with your own MCP server URL.

Overview

Our opinion

The Dumpling AI MCP server provides good documentation for installation and a strong set of developer-centric features. However, the lack of explicit prompt and resource definitions limits transparency for advanced MCP customization. The toolset is potentially broad (as implied by the README), but only one tool is explicitly listed. Sampling and roots support are not documented.

MCP Score

Rating: 6/10.
Pros: Good core features, clear install docs, and active maintenance.
Cons: Lacks detailed MCP metadata (prompts, resources, roots/sampling support) and extensive tool listing in documentation.