Zola MCP

A Model Context Protocol server that connects Claude to Zola, giving you natural-language access to your wedding vendors, budget, guest list, seating chart, events, registry, inquiries, and more.

[!WARNING] AI-developed project. This codebase was entirely built and is actively maintained by Claude Code. No human has audited the implementation. Review all code and tool permissions before use.

What you can do

Ask Claude things like:

• "How's wedding planning going?"
• "Find a photographer in Charlotte, NC"
• "Update the venue cost to $25,000"
• "Who hasn't RSVP'd yet?"
• "Seat Jennifer at Table 1"
• "Any new vendor messages?"
• "Add my cousin Mike to the guest list"
• "Show me the gift tracker"

Requirements

• Claude Desktop or Claude Code
• Node.js 20.6 or later
• A Zola account
• For the no-env-var path: the fetchproxy Chrome / Safari extension

Acknowledgement of Terms

By using this MCP server, you acknowledge and agree to the following:

1. This server accesses your own Zola account. Auth happens via your own credentials. It does not — and cannot — access anyone else's wedding website, registry, or guest list.

2. Zola's Terms of Use govern your use of this server, just as they govern your direct use of zola.com. The clauses most relevant here:

[You may not use] any hardware or software intended to surreptitiously intercept or otherwise obtain any information… including but not limited to the use of any "scraping" or other data mining techniques, robots or similar data gathering and extraction tools.

And, critically, on agent-acting-as-you: "You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password… You accept full responsibility for all activities that occur under your account and password, even if such actions are undertaken by your Authorized Agent or other third party."

You are agreeing to those terms — read by the maintainer 2026-05-23 — every time you invoke a tool in this server. Zola's ToU is explicit: this MCP acting as your Authorized Agent counts as you.

3. Personal, non-commercial use only. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or in partnership with Zola, Inc. It is a personal automation tool for one couple to manage their own wedding website, registry, vendor research, and guest list. Do not use it to bulk-extract Zola's vendor directory, scrape registries, or compete with Zola.

4. Stability is not guaranteed. This server may call internal Zola endpoints that change without notice. It may break.

5. You accept full responsibility for any consequences of using this server in connection with your Zola account — rate limiting, account warnings, suspension, or any enforcement action. Per Zola's ToU, anything this MCP does under your account is your action — review guest list edits, registry changes, and inquiries before confirming. If Zola objects to your use, stop using this server.

This section is the maintainer's good-faith summary of the terms — it is not legal advice and does not modify or supersede Zola's actual ToU.

Installation

Option A — MCPB (recommended)

Download the latest .mcpb bundle from Releases and install:

claude mcp add-from-mcpb zola-mcp-x.y.z.mcpb

You'll be prompted for your ZOLA_REFRESH_TOKEN (see Getting your refresh token below).

Option B — npm

npx -y zola-mcp

Add to your Claude config (.mcp.json or Claude Desktop config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zola": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "zola-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "ZOLA_REFRESH_TOKEN": "your-refresh-token-jwt"
      }
    }
  }
}

Option C — from source

git clone https://github.com/chrischall/zola-mcp.git
cd zola-mcp
npm install
npm run build

Add to Claude Desktop config:

• Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zola": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/zola-mcp/dist/bundle.js"],
      "env": {
        "ZOLA_REFRESH_TOKEN": "your-refresh-token-jwt"
      }
    }
  }
}

Getting your refresh token

You have two options. Both produce the same usr cookie value — a ~1-year JWT that doubles as the refresh token.

Option A — fetchproxy extension (recommended)

1. Install the fetchproxy extension (Chrome Web Store or Safari .dmg).
2. Sign in at zola.com/account/login in that browser.
3. Leave ZOLA_REFRESH_TOKEN unset in your Claude config.

On the first tool call, the MCP asks the extension for the HttpOnly usr cookie via chrome.cookies.get, then operates direct-to-API from Node — the bridge is never in the hot path.

That cookie is the ~1-year refresh token, so it is cached at $MCP_DATA_DIR/.zola-mcp/refresh-token.json (falling back to $HOME, mode 0600). Later starts read it from there and need no browser at all, which is what makes the server usable on a remote host where none exists. If the API ever rejects the cached token — you signed out, or it aged past its year — it is discarded automatically and the extension is asked again. To re-auth, just sign back in to zola.com. Set ZOLA_TOKEN_CACHE=false to keep nothing on disk and ask the browser every time.

You can opt out of this fallback with ZOLA_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY=1 (e.g. in headless / CI environments where no extension is available).

Option B — manual (DevTools)

1. Sign in at zola.com/account/login in any browser.
2. Open DevTools → Application → Cookies → https://www.zola.com.
3. Copy the value of the usr cookie.
4. Paste it into .env as ZOLA_REFRESH_TOKEN=<value> (or into your Claude config env block).

Restart Claude Desktop

Quit completely (Cmd+Q on Mac) and relaunch.

Verify

Ask Claude: "How's wedding planning going?" — it should show your wedding dashboard.

Credentials

Available tools

27 tools across 8 domains. Read-only tools run automatically. Write tools ask for confirmation.

Vendors

Budget

Guests

Seating

Inquiries

Events & RSVPs

Registry & Gifts