Best for · api · data checked 2026-11-15

Best MCP servers & Codex plugins for api

46 plugins in our catalog say they help with api. Here are the top 12, editor's picks first, then by GitHub stars. Most of them sit in Agent Workflows and Design & Frontend.

Quick read on these 12: 11 have a permissive license, 8 got a push in the last 30 days, 0 install as a hosted MCP endpoint.

How to choose

Match the host first: Codex and Claude Code install commands differ, and the install line below shows which one each project targets.
Check where it runs. Hosted MCP endpoints are quicker to set up but send your requests to someone else's server.
Prefer a recent push and a real license (MIT or Apache-2.0) for anything you'll use at work.
Stars tell you how many people looked, not whether it works. Read the code before you install.

The list

1. CRW

Fast, lightweight Firecrawl/Tavily alternative written in Rust: web scraper, crawler and search API that agents can call as an MCP server.

★ 1,260 · AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-15 (this week) · MCP server · by fastcrw

2. YouTube Skills by TranscriptAPI

Twelve drop-in agent skills for YouTube transcripts, timestamped captions and subtitles, video and channel search, playlists and channel browsing through the TranscriptAPI service.

★ 1,207 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 (last 30 days) · skills · by ZeroPointRepo

npx skills add ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills --skill youtube-full

3. Digital Marketing Pro

Open-source AI marketing plugin for agencies — 154 skills, 25 specialist agents, 12-Part Strategy Flow, AEO/GEO, GSC AI Performance Report, Google Ads API v24, EU AI Act Article 50 / C2PA compliance.

★ 959 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 (last 30 days) · plugin, skills · by indranilbanerjee

claude plugin install digital-marketing-pro --marketplace indranilbanerjee/neels-plugins

4. Muse4AI

Local Windows bridge that hands your Muse session to ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex or n8n over REST, MCP or OAuth so agents can make pictures and videos.

★ 887 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-13 (this week) · MCP server · by andrew-babo · alternatives

5. NPMScan

Check npm packages for malware, known vulnerabilities, typosquats and maintainer takeovers before installing, via npmscan.com's free, read-only MCP server (23 tools, no API key).

★ 504 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-15 (this week) · MCP server, plugin · by salemalem · alternatives

/plugin marketplace add salemalem/npmscan-mcp-plugin

6. auto-ontology-mcp

NVIDIA Auto Ontology's semantic layer plus a personal knowledge base as an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients, no LLM API key needed.

★ 421 · Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-14 (this week) · MCP server · by Minhyeong Yu

claude mcp add auto-ontology -- uvx --from git+https://github.com/gogoymh/auto-ontology-mcp auto-ontology-mcp

7. X Twitter Scraper

X/Twitter data, monitored workflows, HMAC webhooks, and MCP access through the Xquik REST API with confirmation-gated write guidance.

★ 229 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-13 (this week) · MCP server, plugin · by Xquik-dev

codex plugin marketplace add Xquik-dev/x-twitter-scraper

Read-only Codex plugin (`.codex-plugin/plugin.json`), MCP server, and 15 Agent Skills for buyer-side product search, cards, seller details, reviews, and cross-marketplace price comparison across 12 Russian and Chinese marketplaces and classifieds (Wildberries, Ozon, Yandex Market, Detsky Mir, Avito, AliExpress, Taobao, Megamarket, Lamoda, DNS, Citilink, and Cian real estate) with no API keys required.

★ 189 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-15 (this week) · MCP server, plugin, skills · by Vladimir-Human

/plugin install ru-marketplace-mcp --marketplace Vladimir-Human/ru-marketplace-mcp

9. PlaceCall

Places real outbound phone calls to US businesses (bookings, inquiries, quotes) through the PlaceCall API and returns the outcome and transcript.

★ 118 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-09 (this week) · plugin · by voygr-tech · alternatives

/plugin marketplace add voygr-tech/placecall

10. Honcho

Persistent cross-session memory for Codex powered by Honcho — lifecycle hooks capture each session and inject relevant context back at session start, so Codex remembers your preferences, projects, and decisions across restarts.

★ 66 · MIT · pushed 2026-09-01 (75 days ago) · plugin · by plastic-labs · alternatives

11. Designer Skill

Plug-and-play MCP that gives your coding agent UI superpowers: design references, intent routing and a static anti-slop gate, no API key.

★ 52 · MIT · pushed 2026-11-12 (this week) · MCP server, skills · by PyModel · alternatives

npx skills add PyModel/designer-skill --skill designer-skill -g -y

12. MetaMask Agent Wallet

Official MetaMask plugin that gives Codex a self-custodial wallet to swap, bridge, trade Hyperliquid perps and Polymarket markets, earn yield, and pay x402 APIs within user-set limits.

★ 30 · MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 (last 30 days) · plugin · by MetaMask

claude plugin marketplace add MetaMask/agent-skills

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Data from GitHub and each project's README, checked 2026-11-15. We haven't installed or audited these, and stars measure attention, not quality. Paid placements never change this page. Spot a mistake? hello@pickaplugin.com