Forager

io.github.pipeworx-iov0.1.0Updated Oct 9, 2026

Forager MCP — wraps the Forager person-phone-lookup API (forager.ai)

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Overview

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Looks up a person's phone number from a LinkedIn profile URL or person ID through the Forager data API.

What it does
Exposes one tool, forager_find_phone, which takes a LinkedIn profile URL or a person ID and returns a phone number plus its type. It is a thin wrapper over Forager's person-contacts phone-number lookup endpoint. The hosted gateway endpoint also lists shared Pipeworx meta-tools such as ask_pipeworx, discover_tools and remember/recall, which route questions across the wider catalog.
When to use it
Use it when an assistant needs to enrich a contact record with a phone number from a LinkedIn profile, for example in sales or recruiting research. It is only worth adding if you already have Forager credentials, since it does not supply its own key.
Requirements
A Forager account id and API key, passed as the _accountId and _apiKey tool arguments. The hosted option is a remote streamable HTTP endpoint at the gateway URL; a local stdio variant runs via npx as @pipeworx/mcp-forager, which needs Node.js. Network access to the Forager API is required.
Before you install
The tool sends personal identifiers (LinkedIn URL or person ID) to a third-party data provider, so consider privacy and consent rules. Credentials _accountId and _apiKey are passed as tool arguments and used in the request path and header. The README states the auth header name, request and response field names, and the account-id concept are unverified guesses, so results may fail or need fixing.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Forager in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "forager": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/forager/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

@pipeworx/forager

Find a person's phone number from their LinkedIn profile URL, via Forager (forager.ai). Part of enrich-waterfall's new enrich_find_phone finder rotation (fleet #2860).

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1743+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

  • forager_find_phone(linkedin_url?, person_id?, _accountId, _apiKey) — phone number + type. Requires BOTH a Forager account id and an API key.

Auth

BYO only. Pass your Forager account id as _accountId and your API key as _apiKey (header X-API-KEY, with the account id as a PATH segment: /api/{account_id}/...). Both are on your Forager dashboard. No platform key (D4).

Data sources

  • https://api-v2.forager.ai/api/{account_id}/datastorage/person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/

Verification notes (fleet #2860, 2026-10-08, no vendor key held) — THIS PACK HAS THE WEAKEST CONFIRMATION IN THE BATCH

  • The URL path is confirmed live. Every auth shape tried against .../phone_numbers/ with account id "0" returns HTTP 403 (never 404), so the path and the account-id-in-path convention are real.
  • The header name is NOT independently confirmed. No header, X-API-KEY: invalidkey123, Authorization: Api-Key invalidkey123, and Authorization: Bearer invalidkey123 all return the byte-identical {"detail":"Authentication credentials were not provided."}. A placeholder-key probe cannot tell "wrong header" apart from "right header, garbage key" when the server's generic-scheme message is this generic. X-API-KEY is used here because that is what search results describing Forager's own docs name, but this is the one auth shape in this batch that should be treated as a hypothesis, not a confirmed fact, until a real key either works or returns a DIFFERENT 401/403 body.
  • The request/response body fields are a best-effort guess, not a confirmed schema. We could not read docs.forager.ai's own schema page for this specific endpoint (only sibling endpoints — detail lookup, reverse-by-email, reverse-by-phone, role search — turned up in what we could fetch). This pack sends {"linkedin_url": ...} or {"person_id": ...} and reads a phone_numbers array (string or {number, type} objects) back, by analogy with Forager's REST conventions elsewhere. If a real key gets a 200 with a different shape, findPhone() in src/index.ts is the only place that needs fixing.
  • Not verified (no key held), and more load-bearing than usual for this pack: the auth header name, the request body field name, the response field name, and whether _accountId is even the right concept (vs. the account id being derivable from the key itself).

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "forager": {      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/forager/mcp"    }  }}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/forager/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "pipeworx": {      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"    }  }}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1743+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

This pack takes your own API key (_apiKey) — we don't front one for it, so there's no curl here that would run without it. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/forager_find_phone. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "forager": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-forager"]    }  }}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

bash
npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-forager

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Forager data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

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License

MIT

Source: README.md at commit 0e95d85

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Version history

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  1. v0.1.0LatestOct 9, 2026