How do I connect Blinkhop to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

To connect Blinkhop, add one URL to your AI client: https://mcp.blinkhop.com/mcp. It’s a remote MCP server that uses the Streamable HTTP transport, and it needs no account or API key.

Connect Claude Code

Run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http blinkhop https://mcp.blinkhop.com/mcp

Connect Claude (desktop and web)

1. Open Settings → Connectors.
2. Click Add custom connector.
3. Paste https://mcp.blinkhop.com/mcp as the URL and add the connector.

Connect ChatGPT

1. Open Settings → Connectors → Advanced and turn on Developer mode.
2. Add a new connector with the URL https://mcp.blinkhop.com/mcp.

Connect Cursor, VS Code or Windsurf

Add Blinkhop to your client’s MCP configuration file. If the file already lists other servers, add the blinkhop entry next to them.

Cursor

In ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "blinkhop": { "url": "https://mcp.blinkhop.com/mcp" }
  }
}

VS Code

In .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "blinkhop": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.blinkhop.com/mcp" }
  }
}

Windsurf

In ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "blinkhop": { "serverUrl": "https://mcp.blinkhop.com/mcp" }
  }
}

Try it

Ask your assistant to “shorten https://example.com/a/very/long/link” or to “shorten every link in this draft”. Blinkhop gives it three tools: shorten_link, shorten_links (up to 50 URLs at once) and expand_link, which checks where a zou.sh link goes. The server allows 120 calls per minute and 5,000 per day per IP address.

The MCP server page has more details. If your client doesn’t connect, see My AI assistant can’t reach Blinkhop.

Still stuck? Contact us and tell us which client you use.