Readwise integration for Model Context Protocol - Access your highlights, books, and documents through MCP
If you already use Readwise, the readwise mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. Readwise integration for Model Context Protocol - Access your highlights, books, and documents through MCP.
To install Readwise MCP for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
@smithery/cli on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
get_highlights — Retrieve highlights with filtering and paginationget_books — Get books from your libraryget_documents — Get documents from your librarysearch_highlights — Search for highlights by queryget_tags — List all tags in your libraryget_recent_content — Get recently saved contentadvanced_search — Powerful multi-parameter searchsearch_by_tag — Find content by tagssearch_by_date — Find content by date rangeget_videos — List videos in your libraryget_video — Get video details with transcriptcreate_video_highlight — Create highlight with timestampConfiguration is passed through the environment: READWISE_API_KEY, YOUR_API_KEY. 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.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Readwise's toolset — get_highlights, get_books, get_documents and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by iamalexander; 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We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| get_highlights | Retrieve highlights with filtering and pagination |
| get_books | Get books from your library |
| get_documents | Get documents from your library |
| search_highlights | Search for highlights by query |
| get_tags | List all tags in your library |
| get_recent_content | Get recently saved content |
| advanced_search | Powerful multi-parameter search |
| search_by_tag | Find content by tags |
| search_by_date | Find content by date range |
| get_videos | List videos in your library |
| get_video | Get video details with transcript |
| create_video_highlight | Create highlight with timestamp |
| get_video_highlights | Get all highlights for a video |
| update_video_position | Save playback position |
{
"mcpServers": {
"readwise": {
"command": "readwise-mcp",
"env": {
"READWISE_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| READWISE_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| YOUR_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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