MyFitnessPal MCP

MyFitnessPal MCP is a free, open-source MCP server that connects MyFitnessPal to Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or any MCP client. Log meals by talking, search the food database with macros, track trends, and export your nutrition history, all against your real MyFitnessPal diary.

Published on PyPI as mfp-mcp and in the official MCP Registry as io.github.Mason-Levyy/mfp-mcp.

Unofficial. MyFitnessPal has no public API; this reverse-engineers the web app's own endpoints. It can break whenever MFP changes their site. Use at your own risk, with your own account.

Why this one?

MyFitnessPal moved behind Cloudflare + NextAuth, which broke the username/password login that most existing integrations rely on. This server:

• Authenticates with your browser session cookie over a real Chrome TLS fingerprint (curl_cffi), which passes Cloudflare
• Auto-refreshes the session (optional): a headless browser profile rotates the token when it expires, and failed calls retry automatically
• Writes, not just reads: log, modify, and delete real diary entries
• Search-then-log: get candidates with macros, then log the exact item

Quickstart

1. Connect your account (one-time; prompts you to paste a cookie — see Authentication):

   bash

   uvx mfp-mcp auth

2. Add the server to your client. The install buttons at the top do this in one click for Cursor and VS Code.

   Claude Code

   bash

   claude mcp add myfitnesspal -- uvx mfp-mcp

   Or install it as a plugin:

   /plugin install myfitnesspal-mcp --marketplace Mason-Levyy/myfitnesspal-mcp

   Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json), Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json), Windsurf (~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json), and Cline (cline_mcp_settings.json) all take the same entry:

   json

   {  "mcpServers": {    "myfitnesspal": {      "command": "uvx",      "args": ["mfp-mcp"]    }  }}

   VS Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI

   VS Code (or use the button above):

   bash

   code --add-mcp '{"name":"myfitnesspal","command":"uvx","args":["mfp-mcp"]}'

   Codex CLI:

   bash

   codex mcp add myfitnesspal -- uvx mfp-mcp

   Gemini CLI:

   bash

   gemini mcp add myfitnesspal uvx mfp-mcp

3. Talk to it: "log a banana as a snack", "what did I eat yesterday?", "chart my weight this month".

Requires uv. Any MCP client that speaks stdio or streamable HTTP works, not just Claude.

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Authentication

This server signs in with your browser's MyFitnessPal session cookie:

1. Log in at myfitnesspal.com
2. Open DevTools (F12) → Application (Chrome) or Storage (Firefox) → Cookies → https://www.myfitnesspal.com
3. Copy the value of __Secure-next-auth.session-token
4. Paste it into the mfp-mcp auth prompt, or on macOS run mfp-mcp auth --clipboard and copy the cookie: it connects as soon as the token reaches the clipboard

Sessions last 30 days from their last renewal. The server renews the session whenever it builds a client and saves the cookies MyFitnessPal re-issues, so the saved session stays current as long as it's used at least once a month. mfp-mcp auth --check reports whether the saved session still works and whether auto-refresh is set up; it renews and saves the session as it checks and exits 1 when the session needs attention, so running it on a schedule (cron, launchd) keeps an idle session alive and warns before it lapses.

Auto-refresh (recommended)

With the autorefresh extra, auth also seeds a persistent headless browser profile. When MyFitnessPal rejects the session mid-call, the server tells your client it is retrying, boots the profile headlessly, lets MyFitnessPal rotate the session token, saves the fresh cookie, and retries the call.

uvx --from 'mfp-mcp[autorefresh]' playwright install chromiumuvx --from 'mfp-mcp[autorefresh]' mfp-mcp auth

Then use the same --from 'mfp-mcp[autorefresh]' form in your client config (e.g. uvx --from 'mfp-mcp[autorefresh]' mfp-mcp).

Tools

Logging flow

Food logging is draft-then-confirm, so what lands in your diary never depends on MyFitnessPal's search order:

1. fitness_draft_food("greek yogurt", min_protein=15, max_calories=150) returns numbered options. Each lists every serving size with calories and macros for the whole entry (serving × quantity) plus a suggested serving; options that meet the targets come first, near misses follow. Call it again with different targets to refine.
2. fitness_log_food(draft_id=..., option=2, serving=1) logs exactly that food and serving, and remembers the choice for that query.
3. Next time, fitness_log_food(query="greek yogurt") logs the remembered food and serving without searching.

A bare fitness_log_food(query=...) with nothing remembered logs only when exactly one result matches the name exactly; otherwise it logs nothing and returns a draft to choose from. Remembered choices live in the local cache (fitness_list_food_pins, fitness_clear_food_pin). Drafts expire after 24 hours.

fitness_modify_food picks the replacement the same way, before deleting anything: a remembered food or a single exact-name match is used directly; otherwise the entry is left alone and a draft comes back — call fitness_modify_food again with the same query plus draft_id and option.

fitness_log_food, fitness_delete_food, and fitness_modify_food all take a meal argument the same way: breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks, or the literal name of any meal section currently on your diary — including a renamed default meal or one of the up to two extra meals MyFitnessPal lets you add in Diary Settings. Matching is case-insensitive against your account's current meal labels. If you renamed a default meal, the keywords still work: breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks fall back to your first through fourth meal, unless that slot now carries a different default name (e.g. lunch won't land in a second meal you renamed to "Dinner"). Any other unrecognized meal raises an error instead of silently logging into the wrong section.

Day summaries and trends read from a local SQLite cache that gap-fills from MyFitnessPal (first call on a fresh install fetches up to 30 days, one request per day).

Water logging reads the day's current total from /food/water, adds the requested quantity, and posts the new total back to the same endpoint. Pass replace=True to set the day's total outright (e.g. to fix a mislogged amount); every call returns previous_ml, so a mistake can be reverted by passing it back as amount with unit="ml" and replace=True. The separate /stats request with a water_logged event is analytics telemetry; it does not persist the water total.

Remote / HTTP mode

The default transport is stdio. For network clients:

mfp-mcp --http --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8484

This serves streamable HTTP at /mcp. A session idle for 30 minutes is closed, and the client has to reconnect; clients that keep the event stream open aren't affected. There is no built-in authentication — never expose it to the internet. Bind to localhost and front it with something that authenticates for you: a VPN/tailnet (e.g. tailscale serve), an authenticating reverse proxy, or an OAuth-aware MCP gateway.

Configuration

Troubleshooting

• 403 / Cloudflare blocked: try MFP_IMPERSONATE=chrome124 (or another curl_cffi target). Datacenter IPs get challenged far more than residential ones.
• "Session expired": confirm with mfp-mcp auth --check, then re-run mfp-mcp auth, or set up auto-refresh.
• "couldn't read your MyFitnessPal profile": MFP's profile endpoint 500s for some accounts. Set MFP_USERNAME to your username (not your email).
• curl_cffi install issues: prebuilt wheels cover Linux/macOS/Windows; musl (Alpine) builds from source.

FAQ

How do I connect MyFitnessPal to Claude? Run uvx mfp-mcp auth once to save your MyFitnessPal session, then add the server: claude mcp add myfitnesspal -- uvx mfp-mcp in Claude Code, or the JSON entry from the Quickstart in Claude Desktop. Then ask Claude to log a meal or show yesterday's diary.

Is it free? Yes. It's open source under the MIT license, and it doesn't sell or collect anything.

Is there an official MyFitnessPal API? Not one you can use. MyFitnessPal's API is limited to approved partners and isn't open to new applications, so there's no API key to get. This server signs in with your own browser session cookie and makes the same requests the MyFitnessPal website makes (see How it works).

Which MCP clients does it work with? Any client that runs a stdio or streamable HTTP server, including Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, and VS Code. Use the uvx mfp-mcp command from the Quickstart. AI coding agents can follow llms-install.md.

Can it log meals as well as read them? Yes. It logs, replaces, and deletes diary entries, logs weight and water, and writes the daily note. See Tools.

Where does my data go? The server talks only to MyFitnessPal. The session cookie stays in your local config directory, and day summaries, feel notes, and remembered foods stay in a local SQLite file. Tool results go to whichever MCP client and model you connect it to.

How it works

• Every request runs over a curl_cffi session that impersonates Chrome's TLS fingerprint, so Cloudflare lets it through with just the NextAuth session cookie. The diary, exercise, and measurements pages are parsed with lxml.
• Writes replicate the web app's own XHR calls: the legacy food-search page supplies the food_id/weight_id that /food/add accepts, deletes go through /food/remove, water reads/writes via /food/water, and the daily note reads/writes via /food/note — each with the page CSRF token.
• Day summaries, trends, and exports read a local SQLite cache that gap-fills missing days. The MyFitnessPal daily note syncs both ways; feel notes are local-only.

Development

git clone https://github.com/Mason-Levyy/myfitnesspal-mcpcd myfitnesspal-mcpuv sync --extra autorefreshuv run pytest

Tests run against synthetic MyFitnessPal HTML/JSON fixtures — no account needed. Lint and formatting are enforced with ruff (uv run ruff check ., uv run ruff format .).

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome, especially endpoint captures when MyFitnessPal changes something. See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, style, and the PR checklist, and SECURITY.md for how to report vulnerabilities privately. Release history is in CHANGELOG.md.

Support the project

If this server saves you time, please star the repo. Stars are how other MyFitnessPal users find it in GitHub search and MCP directories. Bug reports and endpoint captures are just as welcome in issues.

Credits

The sign-in and the diary, exercise, weight, and food-detail parsing started as python-myfitnesspal by Adam Coddington, which this project used as a dependency through 0.4.x. That code now lives in this repo, trimmed to what the server uses and adapted to its curl_cffi session, under python-myfitnesspal's MIT license (see NOTICE). Thanks to Adam and its contributors for years of keeping up with MyFitnessPal's site.

License

MIT. Code adapted from python-myfitnesspal keeps its own MIT license notice in NOTICE.