Website Auditor MCP
An MCP server for website-auditor.io —AI-visibility (GEO) and site-audit tools you can call from any MCP client(Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and other agents).
Ask an agent "does ChatGPT recommend my business?", "what's my AI-visibilityscore?", "audit example.com", or "how do I stack up against my competitors?"and it answers with real data — an overall AI-visibility score (0–100), aper-engine breakdown across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini, a fullsite audit (SEO, security, performance), competitor comparisons, and ongoingmonitoring.
The server is a thin, authenticated wrapper over the Website Auditor API — theaudit engine, AI-visibility scoring and monitoring live in that service; thisserver just makes them available to agents.
Tools
| Tool | Tier | What it does |
|---|---|---|
get_ai_visibility |
Pro | Current AI-visibility score (0–100) + per-engine breakdown (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) + the top competitor appearing in your place. Pro subscribers also get trend: 7- and 30-day score movement from stored snapshot history. |
run_audit |
Pro, rate-limited | Full one-time audit → category scores (AI visibility, SEO, security, performance) + top issues + a shareable report URL. |
get_changes |
Pro | What changed since the last check — score movement, engines gained/lost, competitor moves, new/resolved issues. Requires the domain to be tracked. |
compare_competitors |
Pro | Head-to-head AI-visibility ranking against named competitor domains + where each appears that you don't. Quota-aware: caps the audit fan-out to your remaining daily quota, reuses recent cached audits, and reports any competitors it had to skip rather than dropping them silently. |
track_site |
Pro | Start (or stop) weekly monitoring of a site's AI visibility. Establishes the history get_changes reads from. |
untrack_site |
Pro | Stop monitoring a site and free up a monitoring slot. Idempotent. |
list_tracked_sites |
Pro | List the sites you're monitoring, with cadence, active state, and slots used/remaining. |
get_monitoring_status |
Pro | A glanceable dashboard across all tracked sites — latest score, when each was last checked and next runs, and the most recent change. |
check_upgrade_status |
Any valid key | Your own subscription standing — tier, status, period end, and what upgrading unlocks (starting Pro requires a payment method and accepting the Terms). Consumes no audit quota. |
Install & configure
The server runs directly via npx — no clone or build required. Add it to yourMCP client's config with your API key.
Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json), Cursor(~/.cursor/mcp.json), and most other clients use the same mcpServers shape:
{
"mcpServers": {
"website-auditor": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@spikeycoder/website-auditor-mcp"],
"env": {
"WA_API_KEY": "wa_your_key_here"
}
}
}
}
Claude Code — add it from the CLI:
claude mcp add website-auditor -e WA_API_KEY=wa_your_key_here -- npx -y @spikeycoder/website-auditor-mcp
Restart the client and the tools appear.
Getting an API key
WA_API_KEY is a per-user key (it starts with wa_) minted from a WebsiteAuditor account at website-auditor.io. Freetools work with any valid key; Pro tools require an account with an activesubscription. Treat the key like a password — set it only in your MCP client'senv and never commit it.
Configuration (environment variables)
| Var | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
WA_API_KEY |
(required) | Per-user API key (starts with wa_). |
WA_API_BASE_URL |
https://api.website-auditor.io |
The Website Auditor API this server wraps. |
WA_SITE_URL |
https://website-auditor.io |
Used to build shareable report links. |
WA_UPGRADE_URL |
https://api.website-auditor.io/admin_portal/ |
Surfaced in auth/quota errors. |
WA_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS |
120000 |
Timeout for API calls. |
WA_AUDIT_CACHE_TTL_MS |
86400000 |
Reuse a domain's audit within this window instead of spending quota (used by compare_competitors). Defaults to 24h. |
WA_SUBSCRIPTION_CACHE_TTL_MS |
60000 |
How long a resolved Pro/free tier is cached per key before re-checking the subscription. |
WA_METRICS_DISABLED |
(unset → metrics on) | Set to 1/true to disable anonymous usage telemetry. |
Only WA_API_KEY is normally needed; the rest have sensible defaults. See.env.example for the full list.
Auth & tiers
Your key is validated on every call. The Pro/free tier is resolved live from theAPI and cached briefly, so upgrades and downgrades take effect within about aminute:
- No key → every tool returns
AUTH_REQUIREDwith an upgrade link. - No active subscription (valid key, lapsed/canceled/never subscribed) →every tool returns
PRO_REQUIREDwith an upgrade link — there is no freeAPI tier;check_upgrade_statusstill answers so the caller can learn why. - Subscribed (status
active, or a legacy trial still in progress) → all tools.
Errors are normalized to stable codes agents can branch on — e.g.AUTH_REQUIRED, INVALID_KEY, PRO_REQUIRED, OVER_QUOTA,UNREACHABLE_DOMAIN, INVALID_INPUT, TIMEOUT. A domain that can't be reachedreturns UNREACHABLE_DOMAIN — never a fabricated score.
Develop
npm install
npm run build # compile TypeScript → dist/
npm start # serve over stdio
npm run dev # run from source without building
npm test # vitest
npm run typecheck
The suite is hermetic — the API client, subscription provider and meter areinjected, and HTTP is mocked at the fetch boundary, so no network is touched.
Privacy Policy
This connector talks to a single external service: the Website Auditor APIat website-auditor.io. When you invoke a toolit sends only two things to that API:
- the target domain you asked to audit or monitor, and
- your API key (
WA_API_KEY), used to authenticate the request and resolveyour plan tier.
That's the full extent of what leaves your machine. The connector does notcollect, store, or transmit your files, prompts, conversation content, or anyother personal data, and it does not send data to any third party beyond theWebsite Auditor API. Your API key is held only in your MCP client'sconfiguration (in Claude Desktop it is stored in the OS keychain and injected asan environment variable); it is never written to the bundle or logged.
Anonymous, aggregate usage telemetry (which tool ran, success/failure, latency —no domains, no keys, no personal data) may be emitted to improve the service, andcan be disabled entirely by setting WA_METRICS_DISABLED=1. Installed as adesktop extension, the same opt-out is a "Disable anonymous usage telemetry"checkbox in the extension's settings.
Full privacy policy: https://website-auditor.io/privacy
License
Elastic License 2.0 — © 2026 Kevin Armstrong / SpikeyCoder.
Learn more at website-auditor.io.