Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Murl – Curl for MCP Servers
I built murl because interacting with MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers from the command line was way more painful than it needed to be. MCP uses JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP, so every request means hand-crafting payloads with method names, params objects, and id fields. I wanted something that felt like curl. Given an MCP server at https://mcp.deepwiki.com/mcp, murl lets you append virtual paths like /tools or /tools/read_wiki_structure that map to MCP methods. These aren't real HTTP endpoints — murl translates them into the right JSON-RPC calls behind the scenes:…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text and curl. Hurl can run fast automated integration tests.
2021 · hurl.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I built uncurl.dev to scratch my own itch: I kept getting curl commands in API docs, bug reports, or Slack messages and wanted a quick way to visualize, run, and debug them without firing up Postman or writing code to dissect them. It was also sometimes painful to create a test page specifically for non-tech users to consume an API. I originally vibe-coded this over a weekend just to make it easier for myself to debug API requests shared as curl commands. It slowly grew into something I found surprisingly useful in my workflow, so I decided to clean it up and share it. uncurl.dev…
2025 · uncurl.dev · its alternatives →
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protoCURL is cURL for Protobuf: The command-line tool for interacting with Protobuf over HTTP REST endpoints using human-readable text formats - qaware/protocurl
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Some time ago I wanted to write a MCP server in Zig but found out there's no real JSON-RPC support in Zig, which MCP needs for communication. I ended up developing a JSON-RPC 2.0 library in Zig and more [1], which had its challenges. So I finally was able to put together a MCP server in Zig. It's built from scratch implementing the protocol messages from the MCP JSON schema. It's actually quite magical to have the LLM calling my MCP server [2]. The work is not too bad. Most of the hard work has already been done in the JSON-RPC library. [1]…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MCP server SDK/example implemented entirely in bash — build a Model Context Protocol server with no runtime dependency beyond a POSIX shell. - muthuishere/mcp-server-bash-sdk
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm relatively new to Go, but recently got interested in how MCP servers work. I started thinking about what the architecture of such a project might look like, and decided to build a minimalist version as an experiment. I based it on my past experience writing regular REST API servers and figured it might be useful or interesting to others as well.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2025 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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MCP Playground▲160MCP Playground is a Postman-style tool for MCP — inspect servers, execute tools live, test your client, all from the browser. Four things in one place: 1. Free hosted MCP servers — four public test servers anyone can point their client at: Echo (connectivity), Auth (Bearer token flow), Error (error handling), Complex (multi-tool schemas).No sign-up, just use the URL. 2. Server inspector — paste any remote MCP server URL, see all its tools/resources/prompts, execute them live, inspect the full JSON-RPC log. HTTP, SSE, and WebSocket all supported. 3. Registry — 10,000+ servers…
Nov 2025 · mcpplayground.io · its alternatives →
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Hey all, As a CEO of a growing startup I don't get to code as often as I like and when I do, I try not to annoy my team with my terrible code :) So to scratch the itch, I've built some of side projects related to what our company does. The latest is embedcurl.com I see a lot of API docs and blogs posting curl commands that are really hard to read and I figured I could make them easier to read and add some niceties like easier copy/paste, tooltips on flags, etc. They also gracefully degrade if javascript isn't enabled back to a element. The parsing is done in Python with shlex and…
2013 · its alternatives →
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Recently I was trying to use an MCP server to pull data from a service, but hit a limitation: the MCP didn't expose the data I needed, even though the service's REST API supported it. So I wrote a quick CLI wrapper around the API. Worked great, except Claude Code had no structured way to know what my CLI does or how to call it. For `gh` or `curl` the model can learn from the extensive training data, but for a tool I just wrote, it was stabbing in the dark. MCP solves this discovery problem, but it does it by rebuilding tool interaction from scratch: server processes, JSON-RPC transport,…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CSS Gridish▲133Greetings, This is a link to our learning guide to make your own MCP server in C/C++ (with no other dependencies). If you wanted to make one from scratch but needed some insight into dealing with MCP messages: the I/O flow, JSON parsing, and request dispatch, grab the teaching version tagged mcp/teaching/v1.0.0 in the repository. The JSON parsing in C would have been a hurdle, but then there's this amusing story: Eric: "Let's create a helloWorld MCP server in C." Gemini: "That will be somewhat difficult, there are easier ways." Eric: "Why is it difficult??" (the second…
2018 · ibm.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hi! After learning about MCP, I'm really excited about the future of provider-agnostic, re-usable tooling. Unfortunately I've found that while it's easy to implement an MCP server for use with tools that support it (such as Claude Desktop), it's not as easy to implement your own support (such as integrating an MCP server into your own LLM application). We implemented a thin MCP wrapper that easily integrates with Mirascope calls so that you can hook up an MCP server and client super easily to any supported LLM provider. Excited to see what people build with this!
2025 · mirascope.com · its alternatives →
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful, but they’re limited by fixed context windows and outdated knowledge. What if your AI could access live search, structured data extraction, OCR, and more—all through a standardized interface? We built the JigsawStack MCP Server, an open-source implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that lets any AI model call external tools effortlessly. Here’s what it unlocks: - Web Search & Scraping: Fetch live information and extract structured data from web pages. - OCR & Structured Data Extraction: Process images, receipts, invoices, and handwritten…
2025 · its alternatives →
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tap curl in your editor before it gets to sh it. Contribute to awalgarg/curl-tap-sh development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Excited to share our MCP Server at Hyperbrowser - something we’ve been working on for a few days. We think it’s a pretty neat way to connect LLMs and IDEs like Cursor / Windsurf to the internet. Our MCP server exposes seven tools for data collection and browsing: 1. `scrape_webpage` - Extract formatted (markdown, screenshot etc) content from any webpage 2. `crawl_webpages` - Navigate through multiple linked pages and extract LLM-friendly formatted content 3. `extract_structured_data` - Convert messy HTML into structured JSON 4. `search_with_bing` - Query the web and get results…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Zero-dep CLI: one MCP config synced to every agent. A 255-tool listing costs 581 tokens, not 71,929 - schemas never enter context. - activeing123/mcptoon
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello! We open sourced all our current MCP servers to platforms like Slack, Google sheets, Linear, Perplexity and will be contributing a few more integrations every day to the project. problems we're hoping to solve: - Many people are creating MCP servers for the same apps. They're scattered across different repos but flavors of the same thing. We're making one standardized mono project for all MCP servers. - Startups are charging for hosting MCP servers. This is blocking tons of people from being able to play around with MCP casually. We're hosting them for free. - Non-technical people…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementing the latest specification. - hemanth/paws-on-mcp
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A universal CLI client for MCP. mcpc supports persistent sessions, stdio/HTTP, OAuth 2.1, tasks, JSON output for code mode, proxy for AI sandboxes, x402, and more. - apify/mcpc
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Spanly▲77Hi HN, I'm Tim, solo founder of Spanly (https://spanly.com). I spent the last year working on MCP gateways, and debugging them with nothing better than HTTP-level APM was painful. Spanly runs its own MCP server and monitors it with itself, so I've been the first user of everything below. Spanly is observability for MCP servers, the protocol that lets agents like Claude and Cursor call your product's tools. It's a sidecar proxy, so it works with any language and requires zero code changes. Live demo (no signup): https://app.spanly.com/share/demo Sidecar source…
Jun 2026 · spanly.com · its alternatives →
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gURL▲7Go fast. Go simple. A curl alternative built in Go.
2025 · gurl.theharsh.xyz · its alternatives →
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Prepend tomcp.org/ to any URL to instantly turn it into an MCP server. You can either chat directly with the page or add the config to Cursor/Claude to pipe the website/docs straight into your context. Why MCP? Using MCP is better than raw scraping or copy-pasting because it converts the page into clean Markdown. This helps the AI understand the structure better and uses significantly fewer tokens. How it works: It is a proxy that fetches the URL, removes ads and navigation, and exposes the clean content as a standard MCP Resource. Repo:…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote this few months ago with the goal to have a single MCP server and a plugin system so that I can load MCP tools on demand. - Write & build MCP plugin in any language you want to compile to wasm. - You can publish your MCP plugin to OCI registry for other to use.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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