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:

   • paprika-3-mcp_<version>_linux_amd64.zip for Linux
   • paprika-3-mcp_<version>_windows_amd64.zip for Windows

3. Extract the zip archive:

   • Linux:

     unzip paprika-3-mcp_<version>_<os>_<arch>.zip
     

   • Windows:
     • Right-click the .zip file and select Extract All, or use a tool like 7-Zip.

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

   • Linux:

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

   • Windows:

     • Move paprika-3-mcp.exe to any folder in your PATH (e.g., %USERPROFILE%\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",
        "<your paprika 3 username (usually email)>",
        "--password",
        "<your paprika 3 password>"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

!MCP server running with Claude

📄 License

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

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🗂 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:

Operating System	Log File Path
macOS	~/Library/Logs/paprika-3-mcp/server.log
Linux	/var/log/paprika-3-mcp/server.log
Windows	%APPDATA%\paprika-3-mcp\server.log
Other / Unknown	/tmp/paprika-3-mcp/server.log

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