Bitrefill MCP server

The Bitrefill MCP Server provides AI assistants access to Bitrefill services through the Model Context Protocol. This server enables searching for gift cards, mobile topups, and other Bitrefill products directly within AI assistant interfaces.

Installation Options

Installing via Smithery

For the easiest installation with Claude Desktop:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @bitrefill/bitrefill-mcp-server --client claude

Claude Desktop Manual Setup

Add the server configuration to Claude Desktop's config file:

• MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bitrefill": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "bitrefill-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Cline Extension Setup

1. Open the Cline extension settings
2. Navigate to the "MCP Servers" tab
3. Click on "Configure MCP Servers"
4. Add this configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "github.com/bitrefill/bitrefill-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "bitrefill-mcp-server"],
      "disabled": false,
      "autoApprove": ["search", "detail", "categories"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor Setup

1. Open the Cursor settings
2. Navigate to "Features" settings
3. In the "MCP Servers" section, click "Add new MCP Server"
4. Choose a name and select "command" as "Type"
5. In the "Command" field, enter:

   npx -y bitrefill-mcp-server
   

Docker Installation

You can also run the server using Docker:

# Build the image
docker build -t bitrefill-mcp-server .

# Run the container
docker run -e bitrefill-mcp-server

Debugging

Since MCP servers communicate over stdio, you can use the MCP Inspector for debugging:

npm run inspector

This will provide a URL to access debugging tools in your browser.

Available Features

Resources

The server provides access to these resources:

• bitrefill://product-types - List of available product types on Bitrefill
• bitrefill://categories/{type} - List of available categories for a specific product type (e.g., bitrefill://categories/gift-cards)

Tools

The server implements these tools:

Search Tool

Search for gift cards, esims, mobile topups and more:

• Required: query (e.g., 'Amazon', 'Netflix', 'AT&T' or '*' for all)
• Optional: country, language, limit, skip, category

Detail Tool

Get detailed information about a specific product:

• Required: id (product identifier)

Categories Tool

Get the full product type/categories map:

• No required parameters

How to install this MCP server

For Claude Code

To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add-json "bitrefill" '{"command":"npx","args":["-y","bitrefill-mcp-server"]}'

See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.

For Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "bitrefill": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "bitrefill-mcp-server"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.

For Claude Desktop

To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:

1. Find your configuration file:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add this to your configuration file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "bitrefill": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "bitrefill-mcp-server"
            ]
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect