INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

search_places

Find UK places (nations, regions, councils, constituencies, towns, wards, neighbourhoods) and postcodes by name, with each one's official code, level and page URL.

openindex.co.uknone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://openindex.co.uk/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for search_places and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

A tool name or description suggests retrieving external content.

Parent server

openindex.co.uk

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.open-index]
url = "https://openindex.co.uk/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "open-index": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://openindex.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: open-index
Remote MCP URL: https://openindex.co.uk/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "open-index": {
      "url": "https://openindex.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "open-index": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://openindex.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "open-index",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://openindex.co.uk/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

get_place — Published figures for one UK area: key figures by default, or every figure in one topic.
get_ranking — Councils ranked on one measure across the UK, a nation or an English region, for the latest period.
compare_places — Two UK areas of the same level side by side on the same published figures, each with its own period and source.
lookup_postcode — The areas a Great Britain postcode sits in (council, constituency, ward, neighbourhood and more) with their codes and pages.
search — Find UK area overview documents by place name for research, with canonical page paths, titles and citation URLs.
fetch — Read one UK area's overview figures by its canonical page path.