A side-by-side look at the Pulse MCP and Rumoro MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Pulse MCP for social media work as a local process; choose Rumoro for social media over a hosted endpoint. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
PULSE_API_URL.metrics, metrics_batch, history.RUMORO_API_KEY.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | R Rumoro | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Social Media | Social Media |
| Quality signal | 36/100 · Fair | 40/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Remote HTTP/SSE |
| Auth | Not declared | Not declared |
| Pricing | Not declared | Not declared |
| Required env vars | PULSE_API_URL | RUMORO_API_KEY |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 1 | 0 |
| Directory activity | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 5 | Not listed |
| Full listing | View Pulse MCP | View Rumoro |
metrics{ platform, views, likes, comments, shares, quotes, bookmarks, publishedAt, title, author, thumbnail }metrics_batchthe same, one per URL (partial failures don't fail the batch)historythe recorded growth curve — `{ count, points }` (posts: `{ t, views, likes, comments }`, profiles: `{ t, followers, posts }`), a snapshot per fresh fetchprofileaccount-level metrics — `{ handle, name, followers, following, posts, verified, avatar }` (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Bluesky, Mastodon)profile_batchsame as `profile`, one per URL — order preserved; partial failures don't fail the batch. Compare follower counts across a list of creators.No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"pulse-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"pulse-mcp"
],
"env": {
"PULSE_API_URL": "YOUR_PULSE_API_URL_HERE"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"rumoro": {
"url": "https://mcp.rumoro.dev/mcp"
}
}
}