How do I install Placements?

Copy the http config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does Placements need an API key?

No required environment variable is listed on this record.

What transport does Placements use?

Placements is reached over HTTP.

When was Placements last checked?

Last checked 2026-10-23. Buy press coverage in 3,800+ vetted media outlets. Price a basket, get a checkout link.

Placements MCP server

Power your agent

Add this server

The publisher's own URL. Not a PlugMCP endpoint.

Add to Cursor Add in Claude Add to VS Code Run on PlugMCP

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

Server URL

https://essentras.com/api/mcp

The Claude button above opens Claude with the name and URL filled in. You still confirm it there.

shClaude Code

1claude mcp add --transport http com.essentras-placements https://essentras.com/api/mcp

Run in a terminal.

jsonClaude Desktop

1{2  "mcpServers": {3    "com.essentras-placements": {4      "command": "npx",5      "args": [6        "-y",7        "mcp-remote",8        "https://essentras.com/api/mcp"9      ]10    }11  }12}

claude_desktop_config.json

Remote · HTTPPublisher installStep-by-step: add this in Claude

Remote URL or a command on your machine? How the two installs differ

Run on PlugMCP

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

A new server you create. It is not this listing's official endpoint. Use the publisher install when you want their URL and their credentials.

Launch

Server facts

Remote

Transport: http
Version: 1.0.1
Last checked

10 tools

Tools

tools/listVoice mode preview

Tool	What it does
check_instagram_recovery_path	Free and read-only. For the legitimate owner of an Instagram account that was hacked, disabled, locked at a checkpoint, locked by lost 2-factor, or whose email and phone are no longer reachable, returns the official recovery route, the same one as the free checker on essentras.com. Ask only what hap
check_knowledge_panel_readiness	Free and read-only. Scores how ready a person or business is for a Google Knowledge Panel, the same score as the free Entity Readiness Check on essentras.com. Ask the person 11 multiple-choice questions about their sources and what Google shows today (never their name or links): the subject, the pan
check_review_removability	Free and read-only. Tells a business owner whether a Google review matches one of Google’s named review rules, the same verdict as the free checker on essentras.com. Ask the person for facts only, never the review text, a name or a link: whose review it is, whether the reviewer was a real customer,
check_wikipedia_notability	Free and read-only. Tests a subject’s sources against Wikipedia’s notability guidelines (WP:GNG, WP:NCORP, WP:BASIC, WP:CREATIVE), the same verdicts as the free checker on essentras.com. Ask the person what the article would be about, their connection to it, and for each source its type and 5 yes, n
find_removal_route	Free and read-only. For something about a person that shows in Google (contact details, an ID number, intimate images, doxxing, a false article, old news, a mugshot, a court record, a review, a post, a data broker profile, their own old content, an outdated page, copied work), returns the same plan
get_outlet	Full detail for a single outlet by its id (from a search result), including price, turnaround, authority and audience.
list_services	Every Essentras service beyond single placements (Knowledge Panels, Google review removal, removal from Google, Wikipedia, account recovery and unbans, verification, press plans, AI visibility) with its current USD price or the words "priced per case", refund terms, who decides, and the free checker
quote_placements	Prices a set of outlets and returns line items, any volume discount, the final total, and a checkout_url. The total matches what the buyer is charged, volume tiers included. It charges nothing and creates no order. checkout_url is the page where the buyer confirms the basket and pays; the card is ch
quote_service	The current price of 1 service (and of a tier, when it has tiers), its refund terms, who makes the final decision, and start_url: the page where the buyer reviews and pays. It charges nothing. Services priced per case return the free assessment page instead. Never promise the outcome: the platform d
search_outlets	Searches buyable media placements by budget, authority, geography, topic and link policy. Returns offers with a fixed USD price, turnaround, link disclosure and a stable id that quote_placements accepts. max_price filters the catalogue to a budget.

Essentras MCP server

Buy press coverage from an AI agent.

Essentras is a marketplace for paid media placements. This MCP server makes the catalogue machine readable end to end: an agent can search 3,800+ vetted outlets by budget, domain authority, geography, topic and link policy, price a basket, and hand the buyer a checkout link. No account, no API key, nothing to negotiate.

Listed in the official MCP Registry as com.essentras/placements.

Quick start

Add this to any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "essentras": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://essentras.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Then ask for what you want:

Find US tech outlets under $400 that give dofollow links, then price the best three.

I have $2,000 for fintech press in the UK. What can I get?

What does a placement on Business Insider cost, and how long does it take?

Tools

Tool	What it does
`search_outlets`	Search by `max_price`, `country`, `region`, `language`, `topic`, `min_da`, `dofollow`, `indexed`, with sorting and paging. Returns offers with a fixed USD price, turnaround, link policy and a stable id.
`get_outlet`	Full detail for one outlet by id.
`quote_placements`	Prices a basket. Returns line items, any volume discount, the final total and a `checkout_url`. Charges nothing and creates no order.

All three are annotated read-only and idempotent.

The agent never pays

This is a design decision, not a limitation waiting to be removed.

The server holds no payment method and cannot take money. quote_placements returns a checkout_url; the buyer opens it, sees the same basket at the same total, and pays on essentras.com. So the worst case for someone who hands an agent too much trust is a basket they did not want, never a charge they did not authorize.

A capability the server does not have is a stronger guarantee than an instruction a model might ignore.

The quote is the price

quote_placements exists rather than expecting you to add up list prices, because the basket total is not the sum of its parts: volume tiers apply at 3 and 5 placements. The page, the REST API, the MCP server and the charge all read one pricing function, so the number an agent reports is the number the buyer is charged.

Billing is at checkout, not on publication. If the placement does not publish, or the stated turnaround is missed, the order is refunded.

Plain HTTP

Everything the MCP server does is also a REST endpoint, described by OpenAPI 3.1.

curl "https://essentras.com/api/agent/v1/outlets?country=US&dofollow=true&max_price=400&limit=3"

curl -X POST https://essentras.com/api/agent/v1/quote \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"items":[{"id":"business-insider"},{"id":"msn"}]}'

See examples/quickstart.sh for a runnable walkthrough.

Endpoint
`/api/agent/v1`	Service description and checkout model
`/api/agent/v1/openapi`	OpenAPI 3.1
`/api/agent/v1/feed`	Product feed, JSONL, Agentic Commerce Protocol shape
`/.well-known/agent.json`	Discovery manifest
`/llms.txt`	What we sell, in prose

Protocol support

Streamable HTTP, dual era on purpose. The server implements the 2026-07-28 revision (stateless, server/discover, per-request _meta, resultType, cache hints) and the earlier initialize handshake, because a large share of clients in the wild still open the old way. Unsupported versions get a proper UnsupportedProtocolVersionError with the list of versions we do speak, so a client can retry rather than guess.

Limits and honest notes

Read and quote are public and rate limited per IP. There is nothing to gate: everything the API returns is already visible on the website.
JSON-RPC batches are capped (20 messages, 5 of them tool calls). An unbounded batch is a cheap way to buy a lot of someone else's database time.
One outlet per order, so quote_placements takes no quantity. The checkout handoff cannot express it, and quoting a basket the cart cannot reproduce would be worse than not supporting it.
Most placements publish as standard editorial articles with no sponsored label. A minority carry a sponsored or discreet disclosure, and every offer states which under link.disclosure. Do not assume the whole catalogue is one or the other.
The catalogue is what it is: strong in business, tech and finance, thinner on some tier-one US names. Search it rather than assuming an outlet is there.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Placements

Add this server

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

Server facts

Tools

Questions

How do I install Placements?

Does Placements need an API key?

What transport does Placements use?

When was Placements last checked?

Documentation

Essentras MCP server

Quick start

Tools

The agent never pays

The quote is the price

Plain HTTP

Protocol support

Limits and honest notes

Links

License