This is Unstructured's official MCP server for the Unstructured API, covering full management of sources, destinations, workflows, and jobs, plus integrated Firecrawl web crawling, with stdio and SSE transports and a Claude Desktop configuration example. The README explicitly states the server is not actively maintained and is kept for reference, recommending the Unstructured Transform MCP server for file parsing and structured transformation. It suits users who already have an Unstructured API key and want to manage connectors and workflows through MCP; it is not suited for production use requiring active maintenance, and delete tools plus the full-replacement behavior of update_workflow require caution.
An MCP server implementation for interacting with the Unstructured API, providing tools to manage sources, destinations, and workflows. It includes tools to list, create, update, and delete connectors, create and run workflows, inspect and cancel jobs, plus Firecrawl-based web crawling features. Note that this server is not actively maintained and is kept for reference; for parsing and transforming files into structured output (markdown, JSON, HTML, or plain text), the README recommends the Unstructured Transform MCP server instead. To use the tools that create, update, or delete a connector, the credentials for that specific connector must be defined in the .env file.
Prerequisites: Python 3.12+, uv for environment management, and an API key from Unstructured. Using uvx is recommended (no additional installation required). Configure mcpServers.UNS_MCP in claude_desktop_config.json (located in ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/) with command uvx, args ["uns_mcp"], and env UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY. Alternatively use the Python package with command python and args ["-m", "uns_mcp"]. From source: clone the repository, run uv sync, create a .env file in the root directory with UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY (see .env.template). For SSE, run uv run python uns_mcp/server.py --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080 (or make sse-server) and test with the local client; Claude Desktop does not support SSE. For stdio, point the Claude Desktop config at your local uv executable and run server.py.
{
"mcpServers": {
"UNS_MCP": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["uns_mcp"],
"env": {
"UNSTRUCTURED_API_KEY": "<your-key>"
}
}
}
}