Name: ALAPI
Author: ALAPI-SDK

LABSCO SUMMARY

One credential instead of a dozen signups.

The breadth is the argument: weather, logistics, company registry data and content moderation would normally mean separate accounts, separate keys and separate integrations. Because the tools are generated from ALAPI's OpenAPI spec, the set tracks the platform rather than the repository — and the loading is selective, so you can expose only the APIs a given assistant should have. It is China-oriented data throughout.

What it is

An MCP server over ALAPI, a Chinese aggregator of everyday utility APIs. It loads ALAPI's OpenAPI specification automatically, so the tools appear without you writing any per-endpoint configuration, and you can expose all of them or only the ones you name. Responses and errors are normalised into one shape across every underlying service.

What you get

IP geolocation for IPv4 and IPv6
Chinese domestic weather with warnings, indices and air quality
Today's hot lists across Douyin, Toutiao, Zhihu, 36Kr, Baidu and Weibo in one call
Text moderation for compliance checking, which the project calls out as a fit for AI-generated content
URL shortening, and QR and barcode recognition including several codes in one image
Company records looked up by name or unified social credit code
Express and logistics tracking across ZTO, STO, SF, J&T, Best and YTO
Exchange rates and conversion across 170+ countries and regions, plus live gold prices
Historical events for a given date, and horoscope readings by sign and period

Requirements

An ALAPI account token in ALAPI_TOKEN — that single credential covers every API in the set. There is no standalone CLI configuration; it is designed to be launched by an MCP client. Two installation routes: a prebuilt binary from the GitHub Releases page for Windows, macOS or Linux (the recommended path, no dependencies), or a one-click deploy to Tencent CloudBase for remote SSE access.

Setup effort

Follow the published steps — Create an ALAPI token at https://www.alapi.cn/dashboard/data/token

See installation options

USE CASES

01

Tracking a parcel from the conversation

Look up the logistics trail across the major Chinese carriers in one call instead of visiting each carrier's site.

02

Checking who you are dealing with

Query the company registry by name or unified social credit code and get the basic business record back.

03

Screening generated text before it publishes

Run it through the moderation API as a compliance step rather than hoping the model self-censored.

04

Reading the day's trending topics in one place

Pull the hot lists across six platforms in a single call rather than opening six apps.

05

Keeping the tool list small

Load only the APIs this assistant should reach rather than all of them, so the context is not filled with tools nobody calls.

BEFORE YOU INSTALL

What to know first

Requires

ALAPI_TOKEN in your environment

Where it runs

The documented client runs the server on your machine.

INSTALLATION

Connect your client

Server setup

Create an ALAPI token at https://www.alapi.cn/dashboard/data/token

Download the binary for your system from https://github.com/ALAPI-SDK/mcp-alapi-cn/releases/latest — for example mcp-alapi-cn-1.0.5-darwin-arm64 on an Apple-silicon Mac, mcp-alapi-cn-1.0.5-linux-amd64 on Linux or mcp-alapi-cn-1.0.5-windows-amd64.exe on Windows

On macOS or Linux, make the downloaded file executable with chmod +x

Add the configuration to your MCP client, with command set to the full path of the file you downloaded and ALAPI_TOKEN set to your token

MCP Clients

Claude Desktop

CLAUDE DESKTOP · JSON

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alapi": {
      "command": "/path/to/mcp-alapi-cn",
      "env": {
        "ALAPI_TOKEN": "your-alapi-token-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

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