# tika-mcp

> MCP wrapper around Apache Tika for document parsing and metadata extraction.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/tika-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Edgaras
- homepage: https://github.com/Edgaras0x4E/tika-MCP
- repository: https://github.com/Edgaras0x4E/tika-MCP
- version: 0.1.1
- protocols: mcp
- tags: apache-tika, document-parsing, mcp, metadata-extraction, model-context-protocol, text-extraction, tika
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:tika-mcp

### Description (declared)

# tika-mcp

`tika-mcp` is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that wraps [Apache Tika](https://github.com/apache/tika) and
exposes document parsing tools over `streamable-http`.

It supports local files and optional remote URL ingestion with SSRF protections,
plus extraction for plain text, metadata, HTML, MIME detection, and recursive
archive content.

## Features

- Async direct Tika Server HTTP integration (`/tika`, `/meta`, `/detect/stream`, `/rmeta`)
- MCP tools: `extract_text`, `extract_metadata`, `detect_mime_type`, `extract_html`, `extract_documents`
- Local file controls (`TIKA_ALLOW_LOCAL_FILES`, `TIKA_ALLOWED_LOCAL_ROOTS`)
- Optional remote URL ingestion with blocked private/internal targets by default
- Bounded input and output sizes with clear tool-facing errors
- Optional bearer-token protection for exposed MCP HTTP deployments

## Requirements

- Python 3.11+
- Apache Tika Server reachable at `TIKA_URL` (default `http://localhost:9998`)

## Installation

```bash
pip install tika-mcp
```

Or from source:

```bash
pip install .
```

## Quick Start

1. Install tika-mcp:

   ```bash
   pip install tika-mcp
   ```

2. Start Apache Tika Server:

   ```bash
   docker run --rm -p 9998:9998 apache/tika:3.3.1.0
   ```

3. Start tika-mcp:

   ```bash
   export TIKA_URL=http://localhost:9998
   tika-mcp
   ```

   It now listens at `http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp` (transport: `streamable-http`).

## Tools

Every tool takes a single argument, `source` - a local file path, or an `http(s)://`
URL (remote URLs must be enabled). All tools are read-only.

| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| `extract_text` | Extract plain text from a document (PDF, Office, HTML, and other Tika-supported formats). |
| `extract_metadata` | Return document metadata (author, title, content type, page count, …) without the body text. |
| `detect_mime_type` | Detect the file's MIME/content type from its bytes, without full parsing. |
| `extract_html` | Extract structured XHTML with headings, t…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- documents.extraction (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/tika-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T14:22:27.921Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/tika-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/tika-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:tika-mcp