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Universities

Searches the Hipolabs Universities API by university name or country without authentication.

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Install Universities

Pick your client, then add it in one click or paste the config.

STDIONode.js
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "universities": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-universities"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config, merge this into mcpServers, then fully quit and reopen Claude Desktop.

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Overview

The universities MCP server searches the Hipolabs Universities API for institutions worldwide by name, country, or both. Its search_universities tool returns university names, countries, states or provinces, web pages, and email domains, and requires at least one search field. Use the hosted Pipeworx endpoint for MCP clients or run the package locally over stdio without a gateway account. Direct HTTP calls are also available when an MCP client is not being used.

Use cases

  • Find universities by country
  • Search for an institution by name
  • Retrieve university web pages and email domains
  • Connect an agent to university search data

Key features

  • Worldwide university search
  • Name and country filters
  • University web pages and email domains
  • Hosted MCP endpoint
  • Local stdio package
  • No authentication for the Hipolabs API

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How Universities works

What universities MCP server does

The universities MCP server exposes the Hipolabs Universities API through MCP. Its main operation, search_universities, finds universities worldwide using a name, a country, or both. At least one of these inputs must be supplied for a search.

Results can include the institution name, country, state or province, web pages, and email domains. This makes the server suitable for agent workflows that need to identify institutions, check whether a university matches a country or name, or retrieve basic contact and web-domain details. The available data is limited to what the Hipolabs API returns through this search operation.

How it works

The hosted connection is available at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/universities/mcp. It uses the Pipeworx gateway and can be added to an MCP client as a remote server. A pack endpoint lists the universities tool together with shared Pipeworx meta-tools, so the tool list may contain more entries than the pack-specific operation. The gateway's initialize response provides the authoritative scope for the connection.

The gateway also offers a full endpoint at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp. Both hosted URLs use the same gateway and data sources; the pack URL lists the universities tools directly, while the full URL lists the broader catalog directly. The shared ask_pipeworx operation can route questions across the catalog from either connection.

For direct HTTP use, send a JSON POST request to https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_universities.

Setup and configuration

Add the hosted endpoint to an MCP client with a server entry named universities and the URL https://gateway.pipeworx.io/universities/mcp. The README names Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf as compatible examples.

A local installation is also available through the @pipeworx/mcp-universities package. Configure the client to run npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-universities as the command and pass no additional arguments. This mode speaks MCP over standard input and output, requires no Pipeworx account, and avoids a gateway round trip.

The local process exposes only the pack's own tools. It does not add the shared gateway meta-tools or provide ask_pipeworx routing. No environment variables or authentication credentials are documented as required.

Tools and capabilities

  • search_universities: Search by university name, country, or both.
  • Return institution names and geographic fields.
  • Return web pages and email domains when supplied by the API.
  • Call the operation through MCP, hosted HTTP, or the local stdio package.

The gateway's shared tools are separate from the pack-specific search tool. Their presence applies to the hosted gateway connection, not to the standalone local process.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Universities

universities is an MCP server that connects AI agents to the Hipolabs Universities API through a search_universities tool. It searches worldwide by university name and/or country, requires at least one of those fields, and returns names, countries, states or provinces, web pages, and email domains. It requires no authentication.

Install it locally by configuring your MCP client to run npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-universities. The package communicates over stdin and stdout and does not require a Pipeworx account. You can instead configure the hosted URL https://gateway.pipeworx.io/universities/mcp.

Call search_universities with a name, a country, or both. At least one of those fields is required. The result can contain the university name, country, state or province, web pages, and email domains.

Yes, universities works with Cursor through the hosted MCP URL. Add https://gateway.pipeworx.io/universities/mcp as an MCP server, or configure Cursor to launch the local npx package over stdio.

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