Audiobookshelf MCP Server

Name: Audiobookshelf MCP Server
Author: io.github.ni-c

io.github.ni-c/audiobookshelf-mcp

Repository Registry

What is the Audiobookshelf MCP server?

Browse your Audiobookshelf libraries and keep listening progress, bookmarks and playlists in sync

How to install Audiobookshelf

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

AUDIOBOOKSHELF_URL
required
Base URL of the Audiobookshelf instance, e.g. https://abs.example.com
AUDIOBOOKSHELF_API_KEY
required
secret
API key from Settings -> Users -> API Keys (Audiobookshelf 2.26.0 or newer)
AUDIOBOOKSHELF_READ_ONLY
Set to true to register only the 29 read tools and no write tools
AUDIOBOOKSHELF_INSECURE_TLS
Set to true to accept self-signed certificates for this connection only

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "audiobookshelf-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "audiobookshelf-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_URL": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_URL>",
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_API_KEY": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_API_KEY>",
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_READ_ONLY": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_READ_ONLY>",
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_INSECURE_TLS": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_INSECURE_TLS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "audiobookshelf-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "audiobookshelf-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_URL": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_URL>",
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_API_KEY": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_API_KEY>",
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_READ_ONLY": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_READ_ONLY>",
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_INSECURE_TLS": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_INSECURE_TLS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "audiobookshelf-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "audiobookshelf-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_URL": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_URL>",
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_API_KEY": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_API_KEY>",
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_READ_ONLY": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_READ_ONLY>",
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_INSECURE_TLS": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_INSECURE_TLS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "audiobookshelf-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "audiobookshelf-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_URL": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_URL>",
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_API_KEY": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_API_KEY>",
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_READ_ONLY": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_READ_ONLY>",
        "AUDIOBOOKSHELF_INSECURE_TLS": "<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_INSECURE_TLS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add audiobookshelf-mcp --env AUDIOBOOKSHELF_URL=<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_URL> --env AUDIOBOOKSHELF_API_KEY=<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_API_KEY> --env AUDIOBOOKSHELF_READ_ONLY=<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_READ_ONLY> --env AUDIOBOOKSHELF_INSECURE_TLS=<YOUR_AUDIOBOOKSHELF_INSECURE_TLS> -- npx -y audiobookshelf-mcp