How to Connect Insightly to Gemini — via MCP

💡 No install? Use cloud.anythingmcp.com directly. Sign in, click Connectors → Insightly, paste your credentials, mint an MCP API key — done. No Docker, no git clone, no local server.

Insightly + Gemini

Drive Insightly (CRM + project management) from any AI agent: contacts, organisations, leads, opportunities, projects, tasks. 12 tools, Basic auth.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

INSIGHTLY_API_KEY, INSIGHTLY_POD

Step 1 — Get credentials

1 (api.insightly.com/v3.1).

Setup:

1. Sign in to Insightly → bottom-left avatar → User Settings → API Key.
2. Copy the key. Set INSIGHTLY_API_KEY.
3. Note the API URL pod — visible in the same screen as the API key (e.g. api.na1.insightly.com for North America #1). Set INSIGHTLY_POD (just the pod part, e.g. na1, eu2).

Authentication: HTTP Basic with username=API_KEY, password=empty.

Pod-specific URL: https://api.{{INSIGHTLY_POD}}.insightly.com/v3.1. Wrong pod → 404.

Lead vs Contact: Insightly has both. Leads are unqualified (no opportunity yet); contacts are people in opportunities or just relationships.

…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in Gemini

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Gemini CLI reads MCP servers from ~/.gemini/settings.json (or %APPDATA%\gemini\settings.json on Windows). Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anythingmcp": {
      "httpUrl": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID",
      "headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

1. Get your MCP API key from AnythingMCP → MCP Servers → your server → API keys.
2. Save the file and restart gemini.
3. Run /mcp inside the Gemini CLI — Insightly should be listed as available.
4. Vertex AI Studio: pass https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID to the tools array of your request with the same X-API-Key header.

Available tools

FAQ

Does Gemini 1.5 Pro or 2.x support MCP? Yes — Gemini CLI ≥ 0.4 and Vertex AI tools API both accept MCP httpUrl connectors with custom headers.

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