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MCP Price Tracker in Cursor

Check and watch product prices on ordinary shop pages. It reads the price out of a product page from JSON-LD, microdata, Open Graph or visible markup, normalises 1.299,00 EUR and 1,299.00 USD alike, and keeps a per-watch history.

Cursor's agent has web access of its own, so ask for the watch rather than the price: "watch this page and tell me under 40" has no fetcher equivalent and goes to the server every time.

What you get in Cursor

You sayTool
What does this cost right now: <product url>?price_check
Watch that page and alert me if it goes under 40.watch_add
Has anything I'm watching hit its target or dropped a lot?alerts_pending

One measured limitation: with a general web fetcher available, a client sometimes answers a price question by fetching the page itself, so nothing is stored. Name the tracker in the sentence.

Install it in Cursor

The file is .cursor/mcp.json, and the key inside it is mcpServers.

ScopePath
This project only<project>/.cursor/mcp.json
Every project~/.cursor/mcp.json

If you also run Claude Desktop, the shortest path there is one click: price-tracker.mcpb from the bundle catalog opens as an extension, with no JSON and no terminal. Cursor reads its own config, so here it is:

The config block:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "price-tracker": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/mcp-servers/servers/price-tracker/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

The node command above wants a built file. From a clone, once:

git clone https://github.com/theluckystrike/mcp-servers.git
cd mcp-servers && npm install
npm run build -w packages/mcp-license -w servers/price-tracker

That writes servers/price-tracker/dist/index.js, and its absolute path is the one argument the config needs.

The npm packages are not published yet, so the form below returns a 404 today. It is here because it is what the entry becomes the day the publish lands, with nothing else changed:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "price-tracker": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@theluckystrike/mcp-price-tracker"]
    }
  }
}

The Customize page shows the server and its tools once it has started.

Nothing is published to npm yet, so the working install paths are the ones above: the .mcpb bundle from the bundle catalog, a clone and build, or the hosted URL.

No install: the hosted endpoint

The same server runs at https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/price-tracker over MCP streamable HTTP, no install. Mint a free token with curl https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/token, or use a Pro key. It has no filesystem, so a file comes back as a one-hour download link.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "price-tracker": {
      "url": "https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/price-tracker",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <token>" }
    }
  }
}

Cursor notes worth knowing first

The current field table marks `type` as required, with `stdio` for a locally launched server, so write it out rather than relying on command and args alone. The other documented restriction is that `envFile` is stdio-only: a remote HTTP or SSE server does not read it, and its headers belong in the config.

Free: unlimited checks with a confidence score, 3 watches, 30 observations each, alerts. Pro is $19 once, verified offline.

Questions

Project config or global config?

<project>/.cursor/mcp.json applies to that project and can be committed, which suits a server tied to one client. ~/.cursor/mcp.json applies everywhere. Both are managed from the Customize page.

Why does my stdio entry not start?

The current field table marks type as required, with stdio for a locally launched server, so include it. Pointing at a remote endpoint, envFile is documented as stdio-only and is not read.

Is there a one-click install link?

Servers in Cursor's marketplace get an Add to Cursor button. The deeplink reference currently documents prompt, command and rule links only, so for MCP Price Tracker pasting the config block above is the supported route.

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