BirdieAPI MCP server
[Smithery] [MCP Registry]
The golf data API. PGA Tour leaderboards with finishing positions, earnings and points, round scores and hole-by-hole scorecards, courses with par and yardage per hole, player and course history, our own strokes-versus-field rating, par-3/4/5 scoring splits and the winner prices of the four men's majors by sportsbook. The LPGA, LIV, the DP World Tour and the Korn Ferry Tour use the same tools. REST API and MCP server. 500 free credits every month, no card.
Website: https://birdieapi.com · Docs: https://birdieapi.com/docs · Get a key: https://birdieapi.com/signup
Run it locally (stdio)
Most clients connect to https://mcp.birdieapi.com/mcp directly. For a client that launches a local process instead:
It forwards to the hosted server with your key, so every tool and credit cost is the same.
Skills
Sixteen free Claude skills in skills/ turn Claude into a golf analyst on top of these tools: tournament and player lookups, strokes-versus-field ratings, par-3/4/5 and hole-by-hole scoring, course fit, a tournament simulation, odds math for the four majors' outright markets, and the methodology (leak-free features, walk-forward validation, calibration, edge detection, backtesting) to test your own models.
Or install them as a Claude Code plugin:
Or with the skills CLI: npx skills add noahowsh/birdieapi-mcp.
Point Claude at the skills/ folder, connect the MCP server below for live data (500 free credits every month, no card), and ask a question. Start with the dispatch skill if you are not sure which one fits. The full catalog is in skills/README.md.
Python
The official Python client is on PyPI: birdieapi.
Typed errors for a bad key, no credits left, not found and rate limits, automatic retries, and to_dataframe for pandas.
Quick start
This is a hosted (remote) MCP server over Streamable HTTP. There is nothing to install.
Claude Code
Claude Desktop, Cursor and other clients
The key can also be sent as an x-api-key header or Authorization: Bearer. Connecting and listing tools works without a key; calling a tool needs one.
REST
Every tool is POST /v1/{tool} with a JSON body.
Examples
Runnable Python (standard library only) and Node 18+ (no dependencies) examples live in examples/:
See examples/README.md for details. Get a free key (500 credits a month, no card) at https://birdieapi.com/signup.
Tools (14)
Leagues: golf (default, PGA Tour), lpga, liv, dpwt, kornferry (pass league to any tool; omit it for the PGA Tour).
Data
- PGA Tour leaderboards, rounds and hole-by-hole scores since 2001
- The Korn Ferry Tour (hole by hole since 2007), and round scores for the LPGA, LIV and the DP World Tour, in the same tools
- Courses with par and yardage per hole and how each hole played; player course history; head to head
- Our strokes-versus-field rating, field-strength adjusted, and par-3/4/5 scoring splits (averages, plus strokes versus the field by hole type for the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour); score-based, not shot-level strokes gained
- Major winner odds (
get_winner_odds): outright winner prices of the four men's majors by sportsbook, opening and latest before the first round, every major from 2021 plus the 2020 U.S. Open (a past major's latest price can be up to a week before the first tee time), refreshed daily while an upcoming major's market is open and every six hours in tournament week
- No round, matchup, top-10 or other-tournament prices, and no prices for the other tours
Coverage by season, read live from the database: https://birdieapi.com/docs
Pricing
500 free credits every month, no card. Plans: Starter $19/mo (10,000 credits), Pro $49/mo (30,000), Scale $149/mo (125,000). Wallet top-ups from $5, never expire. https://birdieapi.com/pricing
Useful pages
Attribution
Ratings are ours. Not affiliated with the PGA Tour, LPGA, LIV Golf, DP World Tour or Korn Ferry Tour.
License
MIT for the contents of this repository. Data terms as above.
Use with Codex
Add this repo as a Codex plugin marketplace, then install the plugin:
Then open the plugin directory in Codex and install birdieapi-skills from the birdieapi marketplace. The plugin bundles the skills in skills/ and the BirdieAPI MCP server (https://mcp.birdieapi.com/mcp). Set your key first (free at https://birdieapi.com/signup):
Codex sends it as a bearer token.
Use with Gemini CLI
The extension adds the BirdieAPI MCP server (https://mcp.birdieapi.com/mcp) and sends the key in the x-api-key header. Get a free key (500 credits a month) at https://birdieapi.com/signup.