XPath MCP Server
MCP Server for executing XPath queries on XML content.
Tools
xpath- Query XML content using XPath expressions
- Inputs:
xml(string): The XML content to queryquery(string): The XPath query to executemimeType(optional, string): The MIME type (e.g. text/xml, application/xml, text/html, application/xhtml+xml)
- Returns: The result of the XPath query as a string
xpathwithurl- Fetch content from a URL and query it using XPath expressions
- Inputs:
url(string): The URL to fetch XML/HTML content fromquery(string): The XPath query to executemimeType(optional, string): The MIME type (e.g. text/xml, application/xml, text/html, application/xhtml+xml)
- Returns: The result of the XPath query as a string
Installation
Installing via Smithery
To install mcp-xpath for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install @thirdstrandstudio/mcp-xpath --client claude
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Build the package
npm run build
Setup
Usage with Claude Desktop
Add the following to your claude_desktop_config.json:
npx
{
"mcpServers": {
"xpath": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"@thirdstrandstudio/mcp-xpath"
]
}
}
}
Direct Node.js
{
"mcpServers": {
"xpath": {
"command": "node",
"args": [
"/path/to/mcp-xpath/dist/index.js"
]
}
}
}
Replace /path/to/mcp-xpath with the actual path to your repository.
Examples
Query XML content
// Select all <item> elements from XML
const result = await callTool("xpath", {
xml: "<root><item>value1</item><item>value2</item></root>",
query: "//item/text()",
mimeType: "text/xml"
});
Query HTML content
// Get all links from HTML
const result = await callTool("xpath", {
xml: "<html><body><a href='link1.html'>Link 1</a><a href='link2.html'>Link 2</a></body></html>",
query: "//a/@href",
mimeType: "text/html"
});
Query URL content
// Get all links from a webpage
const result = await callTool("xpathwithurl", {
url: "https://example.com",
query: "//a/@href",
mimeType: "text/html"
});
Development
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Start the server in development mode
npm start
License
This MCP server is licensed under the MIT License. This means you are free to use, modify, and distribute the software, subject to the terms and conditions of the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.
