Influship MCP Server

Find and analyze influencers with creator search, lookalikes, profiles, posts, and transcripts.

Remote serverstreamable-http

What is the Influship MCP server?

Find and analyze influencers with creator search, lookalikes, profiles, posts, and transcripts. That is what the influship mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.

The short version

AI-native creator discovery for influencer marketing workflows. Influship gives ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible agents typed tools for creator search, lookalikes, profile lookup, post lookup, and Instagram post transcript analysis.

Getting it running

Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.

The tools it exposes

The server publishes 4 tools. What each one is for:

  • search_creators — autocomplete_creators
  • find_lookalike_creators — match_creators
  • get_creator — get_profile
  • lookup_profiles — get_posts

What it needs from you

Configuration is passed through the environment: INFLUSHIP_API_KEY, YOUR_KEY, INFLUSHIP_MCP_URL. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.

Things to watch

  • Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
  • Missing credentials fail quietly in some clients — if no tools show up, check the environment block first.
  • Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

How it compares

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Influship's toolset — search_creators, find_lookalike_creators, get_creator and 1 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by Influship; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
search_creatorsautocomplete_creators
find_lookalike_creatorsmatch_creators
get_creatorget_profile
lookup_profilesget_posts

How to install the Influship MCP server

## Client Config

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "influship": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@influship/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "INFLUSHIP_API_KEY": "YOUR_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
INFLUSHIP_API_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
YOUR_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
INFLUSHIP_MCP_URLEndpoint or connection string the server talks to.Yes

Example prompts to try

  • Use Influship to search creators.
  • Use Influship to find lookalike creators.
  • Use Influship to get creator.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Influship to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 4 tools (search_creators, find_lookalike_creators, get_creator, and more) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Influship directly.