linkwarden-mcpYour bookmarks, readable by an assistant

An MCP server for Linkwarden — search a bookmark collection, keep it organised, and read the article text of a page Linkwarden has already preserved.

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Reads what Linkwarden preserved
Linkwarden keeps a permanent copy of every page it saves. get_link_content serves that article text, so a saved link can be summarised or quoted without fetching the live site again — and long articles are sliced, not dumped.
Organises without clobbering
Linkwarden's update routes replace whole records. This server reads the current state and merges, so changing a title never silently strips a link's tags or a collection's collaborators.
Destructive actions are two-step
Deleting, re-preserving or publishing needs a server-issued confirmation token bound to the exact target. A model cannot satisfy that gate on its own, and a token for one link cannot be replayed for another.
Read-only when you want it
LINKWARDEN_READ_ONLY=true does not register the write tools at all — they are absent from tools/list, not merely refused at call time.

The server holds no state of its own beyond short-lived confirmation tokens.

In one command

claude mcp add linkwarden \
  -e LINKWARDEN_URL=https://links.example.net \
  -e LINKWARDEN_TOKEN=… \
  -- npx -y linkwarden-mcp

Then ask for something you saved months ago:

"What did that article I bookmarked about the Model Context Protocol actually say about transports?"

The assistant searches your collection, finds the link, and reads the copy Linkwarden preserved — even if the original page has since changed or gone.

A token is an account, not a scope

Linkwarden has no per-token permissions: a token carries everything the account that created it can do. Create a dedicated account with access only to the collections this server should see. See Security.

linkwarden-mcpYour bookmarks, readable by an assistant

Reads what Linkwarden preserved

Organises without clobbering

Destructive actions are two-step

Read-only when you want it

In one command ​

In one command