Strapi MCP Server: Documents and Availability

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Strapi 5

Connect to a Strapi 5 instance to check its availability, query documents from collection types, and retrieve individual documents through the read-only REST Content API.

Setup

Setting up takes about 2 minutes. You need a Strapi 5 instance and a read-only Content API token.

1. Set STRAPI_URL to the root URL of your Strapi instance, for example https://cms.example.com, without /api at the end.
2. In the Strapi admin, open Settings → API Tokens and create a Content API token with read-only access to the collection types the AI should see. Copy it into STRAPI_API_TOKEN. It is sent only in the Authorization Bearer header.
3. Install the connector and run strapi_health to check that Strapi is reachable. Then run strapi_list_documents on a collection you know, such as articles: only that shows the token works, because strapi_health does not check the token or its permissions.

Where Strapi runs: Strapi Cloud and any other publicly reachable Strapi 5 instance work from AnythingMCP Cloud. An instance on a private network, on localhost or at a private IP address works only with self-hosted AnythingMCP, and its host must be allowed through SSRF_ALLOWED_HOSTS, because the outbound guard blocks private address space by default.

What it reads: documents from one collection type at a time. You address a collection type by its plural API ID, such as articles, not by its display name, and the connector cannot discover the collection types for you. strapi_list_documents supports field selection, Strapi filter operators, sorting (field:asc or field:desc), page-based pagination, populate for relations or media, locale for localized content and status for published or draft documents; it keeps Strapi's meta, so pagination information stays available. strapi_get_document fetches one document by its Strapi 5 documentId. Relations, media, components and dynamic zones come back only when populate asks for them.

Read-only: all three tools are GET requests. The connector cannot create, update, publish, unpublish or delete content.

The connector works with the Strapi 5 REST Content API only: it does not support Strapi 4 response shapes or the Admin, Content Manager and Content-Type Builder APIs.

Prerequisites: STRAPI_URL, STRAPI_API_TOKEN

Install the connector locally

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

Open http://localhost:3000/connectors/store, pick Strapi 5 and paste in the env vars listed under Prerequisites.

Available tools

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