OSSInsight MCP Server
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MCP server for GitHub repository analytics via OSSInsight - repo metadata, trending, collections, search, compare, and rankings. No API key.
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- geniustechnomystic
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Setup
Install OSSInsight MCP Server in your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and others).
Repository: https://github.com/geniustechnomystic/ossinsight-mcp
Follow the installation instructions in the repository README, then restart your MCP client.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for querying GitHub repository analytics fromOSSInsight(by PingCAP). Provides repo metadata, trending repos, curated collections, search, compare, and collection rankings — no API key required.
- ossinsight_repo— GitHub repo metadata: stars, forks, language, license, description
- ossinsight_trending— Trending repos by language and timeframe
- ossinsight_collections— List all 102 curated collections
- ossinsight_search— Search repos and collections by keyword
- ossinsight_compare— Side-by-side comparison of two repos
- ossinsight_ranking— Rank repos in a collection by stars, issues, or PRs
pip install ossinsight-mcp ossinsight-mcp
{ "mcpServers": { "ossinsight-mcp": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["ossinsight-mcp"] } } }
{ "mcpServers": { "ossinsight-mcp": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["ossinsight-mcp"] } } }
# Get repo metadata ossinsight_repo({"owner": "grafana", "repo": "grafana"}) # → stars: 76K, forks: 14K, language: TypeScript, license: AGPL-3.0 # What's trending in Rust this month ossinsight_trending({"language": "rust", "period": "past_month"}) # List all collections ossinsight_collections({}) # Compare two databases ossinsight_compare({"repo1": "postgres/postgres", "repo2": "clickhouse/clickhouse"}) # Top repos in the AI/ML collection by stars this year ossinsight_ranking({"collection_id": 12, "metric": "stars", "range": "year"})
- Auth:None required
- Rate limit:600 requests per hour per IP
- Data:GH Archive (all public GitHub events since 2011)
git clone https://github.com/GeniusTechnoMystic/ossinsight-mcp.git cd ossinsight-mcp uv sync uv run ossinsight-mcp
Other OSSInsight MCP servers in the ecosystem:
- Broadest open-source tool set— 6 tools covering repo metadata, trending, collections, search, compare, and ranking. The only open-source server with dedicated tools for collections, search, and compare.
- Test coverage— 28 tests with mocked HTTP (respx). No competitor has tests.
- PyPI publication— install withuvx ossinsight-mcporpip install ossinsight-mcp. No npm, no Docker, no build step.
- Ranking flexibility—ossinsight_rankingsupports stars, issues, or PRs across day/week/month/year ranges.
- damonxue/mcp-ossinsight— if you need developer contribution analysis, natural language queries, or web scraping for repos with <25 stars.
- gztchan/ossinsight-mcp— if you need stargazer/issue/PR creator demographics (countries, history) or a generic forward-compatible request tool.
None of the open-source OSSInsight MCP servers fully wrap theOSSInsight Public API v1beta. A hosted 18-tool OSSInsight MCP server exists on mcpbundles.com covering issue creator, PR creator, and stargazer demographics (countries, history, orgs) — but it's not open source.
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