WRDO MCP Server

What it is

Find local businesses, menus and price lists in Cape Town and the Western Cape, South Africa (Cape Town and the Winelands), and start a request in WRDO. Read-only, no sign-in, no API key.

From the publisher's website: How to connect Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity or any MCP client to WRDO's public connector: endpoint, the five read-only tools, data and privacy, coverage and A2A.

Connect

• Endpoint: https://api.wrdo.co.za/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
• Authentication: no authentication

Claude Code:

claude mcp add wrdo --transport http https://api.wrdo.co.za/mcp

Other clients (mcpServers config):

{ "mcpServers": { "wrdo": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.wrdo.co.za/mcp" } } }

Tools

Read from the server's tools/list on 2026-11-08:

• search_local_businesses — Find local businesses on WRDO in the Western Cape by what they do (or their name), optionally in a town or suburb, optionally narrowed by category, price list, price and whether they are open now
• list_categories — The kinds of business WRDO lists in the Western Cape, with how many of each, for a town or suburb or everywhere
• list_areas — The towns and suburbs in the Western Cape where WRDO has listings, each with its region and how many businesses (suburbs counted in their town)
• get_business — One business's public WRDO page: name, category, area, whether it is verified, and (for verified businesses) its description, address, opening hours (hours, as the business wrote them), website and menu link
• start_request — Get a link the person opens to ask WRDO for a quote, booking or order (optionally from one business)
• get_price_list — A business's price list or menu, for any kind of business (salon, barber, nails, beauty, restaurant): sections of items with name, description, price_zar (rand) and, for services, duration_min

Notes

• Description above is the publisher's own summary from their submission; check the website for plans, pricing and limits.
• The endpoint answered a standard MCP initialize request when checked on 2026-11-08.

Sources: Website, Submission.