MCP Server

Pi-hole MCP Server MCP Server

Name: Pi-hole MCP Server MCP Server
Author: io.github.ranklancer

io.github.ranklancer/pihole-mcp

Repository Registry

What is the Pi-hole MCP Server MCP server?

MCP server for Pi-hole v6 API — manage multiple instances: queries, lists, groups, stats

How to install Pi-hole MCP Server

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

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

Environment / auth

PIHOLE_INSTANCES
required
Comma-separated list of Pi-hole instance names (e.g. 'pihole' or 'primary,secondary')
PIHOLE_BASE_URL
required
Base URL of your first Pi-hole instance (e.g. 'http://192.168.1.100')
PIHOLE_PASSWORD
required
secret
API password for your first Pi-hole instance

Claude Desktop

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pihole-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ranklancer/pihole-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PIHOLE_INSTANCES": "<YOUR_PIHOLE_INSTANCES>",
        "PIHOLE_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_PIHOLE_BASE_URL>",
        "PIHOLE_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_PIHOLE_PASSWORD>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pihole-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ranklancer/pihole-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PIHOLE_INSTANCES": "<YOUR_PIHOLE_INSTANCES>",
        "PIHOLE_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_PIHOLE_BASE_URL>",
        "PIHOLE_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_PIHOLE_PASSWORD>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pihole-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ranklancer/pihole-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PIHOLE_INSTANCES": "<YOUR_PIHOLE_INSTANCES>",
        "PIHOLE_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_PIHOLE_BASE_URL>",
        "PIHOLE_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_PIHOLE_PASSWORD>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "pihole-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ranklancer/pihole-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PIHOLE_INSTANCES": "<YOUR_PIHOLE_INSTANCES>",
        "PIHOLE_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_PIHOLE_BASE_URL>",
        "PIHOLE_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_PIHOLE_PASSWORD>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add pihole-mcp --env PIHOLE_INSTANCES=<YOUR_PIHOLE_INSTANCES> --env PIHOLE_BASE_URL=<YOUR_PIHOLE_BASE_URL> --env PIHOLE_PASSWORD=<YOUR_PIHOLE_PASSWORD> -- npx -y @ranklancer/pihole-mcp