Limesurvey MCP Server

This is an MCP server for LimeSurvey. It is a simple server that allows you to manage your LimeSurvey surveys and responses.

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What is the Limesurvey MCP MCP server?

This is an MCP server for LimeSurvey. It is a simple server that allows you to manage your LimeSurvey surveys and responses. The limesurvey mcp mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 3 defined tools rather than through you.

Its toolset

Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:

Adding it to your client

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.

Configuration

You will need 3 environment variables: LIMESURVEY_URL, LIMESURVEY_USERNAME, LIMESURVEY_PASSWORD. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.

When to reach for it

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. Limesurvey MCP's toolset — LIMESURVEY_URL, LIMESURVEY_USERNAME, LIMESURVEY_PASSWORD — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by edgarrmondragon; 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We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Caveats

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • Missing credentials fail quietly in some clients — if no tools show up, check the environment block first.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the limesurvey mcp mcp server does with a few real requests.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
LIMESURVEY_URLThe URL of your LimeSurvey instance, e.g. https://myinstance.limequery.com/admin/remotecontrol
LIMESURVEY_USERNAMEYour LimeSurvey username
LIMESURVEY_PASSWORDYour LimeSurvey password

How to install the Limesurvey MCP MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "limesurvey-mcp": {
      // For example, /Users/<YOUR USERNAME>/.local/bin/uv
      "command": "/path/to/uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        // For example, /Users/<YOUR USERNAME>/mcp-servers/limesurvey-mcp
        "/path/to/limesurvey-mcp",
        "run",
        "main.py"
      ],
      "env": {
        // see config above
        // "LIMESURVEY_URL": "https://myinstance.limequery.com/admin/remotecontrol"
        // "LIMESURVEY_USERNAME": "myusername"
        // "LIMESURVEY_PASSWORD": "mypassword"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
LIMESURVEY_URLEndpoint or connection string the server talks to.Yes
LIMESURVEY_USERNAMEConfiguration value read at startup.Optional
LIMESURVEY_PASSWORDConfiguration value read at startup.Optional

Example prompts to try

  • Use Limesurvey MCP to LIMESURVEY URL.
  • Use Limesurvey MCP to LIMESURVEY USERNAME.
  • Use Limesurvey MCP to LIMESURVEY PASSWORD.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Limesurvey MCP to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 3 tools (LIMESURVEY_URL, LIMESURVEY_USERNAME, LIMESURVEY_PASSWORD) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Limesurvey MCP directly.