paprika-3-mcp

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes your Paprika 3 recipes as LLM-readable resources — and lets an LLM like Claude create or update recipes in your Paprika app.

🖼️ Example: Claude using the Paprika MCP server

🚀 Features

See anything missing? Open an issue on this repo to request a feature!

📄 Resources

• Recipes ✅
• Recipe Photos 🚧

🛠 Tools

• `create_paprika_recipe`

Allows Claude to save a new recipe to your Paprika app

• `update_paprika_recipe`

Allows Claude to modify an existing recipe

⚙️ Prerequisites

• ✅ A Mac, Linux, or Windows system
• ✅ Paprika 3 installed with cloud sync enabled
• ✅ Your Paprika 3 username and password
• ✅ Claude or any LLM client with MCP tool support enabled

🛠 Installation

You can download a prebuilt binary from the Releases page.

🍎 macOS (via Homebrew)

If you're on macOS, the easiest way to install is with Homebrew:

brew tap soggycactus/tap
brew install paprika-3-mcp

🐧 Linux / 🪟 Windows

1. Go to the latest release.

2. Download the appropriate archive for your operating system and architecture:

3. Extract the zip archive:

unzip paprika-3-mcp___.zip

4. Move the binary to a directory in your system's `$PATH`:

sudo mv paprika-3-mcp /usr/local/bin/

✅ Test the installation

You can verify the server is installed by checking:

paprika-3-mcp --version

You should see:

paprika-3-mcp version v0.1.0

🤖 Setting up Claude

If you haven't setup MCP before, first read more about how to install Claude Desktop client & configure an MCP server.

To add `paprika-3-mcp` to Claude, all you need to do is create another entry in the `mcpServers` section of your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paprika-3": {
      "command": "paprika-3-mcp",
      "args": [
        "--username",
        "",
        "--password",
        ""
      ]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude and you should see the MCP server tools after clicking on the hammerhead icon:

📄 License

This project is open source under the MIT License © 2025 Lucas Stephens.

🗂 Miscellaneous

📄 Where can I see the server logs?

The MCP server writes structured logs using Go’s `slog` with rotation via `lumberjack`. Log files are automatically created based on your operating system:

> 💡 Logs are rotated automatically at 100MB, with only 5 backup files kept. Logs are also wiped after 10 days.