How to Connect WANotifier to Cursor — via MCP

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

WANotifier + Cursor

WANotifier on the official WhatsApp Business API: browse and update contacts, lists and tags, and send WhatsApp text, image and document replies inside the 24-hour conversation window.

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:

WANOTIFIER_API_KEY

Step 1 — Get credentials

1. In WANotifier, open Automations → Integrations, click Manage on API Integration under Direct Integrations and open the API Keys tab.
2. Copy My API Key into WANOTIFIER_API_KEY; it is sent as the key query parameter. There is no QR code: your number is connected to Meta's WhatsApp Business API inside WANotifier during onboarding.
3. Start with wanotifier_list_contact_lists and wanotifier_list_contact_tags for the ids, then wanotifier_list_contacts. wanotifier_upsert_contact creates or updates a contact by WhatsApp number.

The send tools (text, image, document) only work inside an open 24-hour conversation window, i.e. when the contact wrote to your number in the last 24 hours. Outside it WhatsApp only accepts approved templates, which this REST API does not send: use a WANotifier notification and its webhook for those. Numbers are E.164 with + and country code (+919876543210); media must be a public HTTPS file URL. The API allows 300 requests per minute per key.

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 Cursor

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.

Cursor reads MCP servers from ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Add this entry:

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

1. Create an MCP API key in AnythingMCP under MCP Servers → your server → API keys, and paste it in place of YOUR_MCP_API_KEY.
2. Save the file and restart Cursor.
3. Open Cursor → Settings → MCP and check that anythingmcp is listed and connected.
4. Start chatting — the agent can now call the WANotifier tools.

Available tools

FAQ

Does Cursor support custom MCP servers on the free tier? Yes — MCP is available on Hobby, Pro and Business plans.

Next steps

• Connector landing page
• Connect to Claude
• Connect to ChatGPT