Social MCP

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Multi-platform social media automation service that exposes browser-based actions as both MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools and a REST API. Current platform support: Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book).

Features

• 17 MCP tools for Xiaohongshu (login, browsing, publishing, interactions, notifications, automation)
• REST API with Bearer token authentication and per-route rate limiting
• Browser automation via rebrowser-playwright with per-platform serial queueing
• Cookie persistence with file-based storage (0600, atomic writes)
• Notification task state in SQLite ($COOKIE_DIR/xiaohongshu/automation.db) for idempotent auto-reply workflows
• Web dashboard (React + Vite) for login, feed exploration, publishing, and API testing
• Security controls: timing-safe token comparison, bind-address safety gate, error sanitization, log redaction
• Docker deployment support with hardened runtime defaults
• Plugin architecture for adding additional social platforms

Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Node.js >= 22.0.0
• pnpm

Install and Run (Backend)

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Install Playwright browser (first time only)
npx playwright install chromium

# Build backend
pnpm build

# Start server
pnpm start

The server listens on http://127.0.0.1:9527 by default in local mode. A REST API Bearer token is printed on startup and persisted at ~/.social-mcp/.api-token.

Build With Web Dashboard

# Build backend + web dashboard bundle
pnpm build:all

# Start server (serves dashboard from /)
pnpm start

Development

# Backend watch build
pnpm dev

# Frontend dev server
pnpm dev:web

# Type check
pnpm lint

# Tests
pnpm test

MCP Integration

Claude Desktop

Add this in claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "social-mcp": {
      "url": "http://127.0.0.1:9527/sse"
    }
  }
}

Available MCP Tools (Xiaohongshu)

Tool	Description
xhs_check_login	Check Xiaohongshu login status
xhs_get_login_qrcode	Get login QR code for phone scanning
xhs_delete_cookies	Delete cookies and reset login session
xhs_list_feeds	Get explore page recommended feed list
xhs_search	Search notes by keyword with filters
xhs_get_feed_detail	Get note detail (content/media/stats/comments)
xhs_get_sub_comments	Load all sub-comments for a parent comment
xhs_get_user_profile	Get user profile with recent notes
xhs_list_my_notes	List current account's published notes
xhs_publish_image	Publish an image note
xhs_publish_video	Publish a video note
xhs_post_comment	Post a comment on a note
xhs_reply_comment	Reply to a comment
xhs_like	Toggle like state on a note
xhs_favorite	Toggle favorite state on a note
xhs_get_unprocessed_notifications	Get unprocessed notification tasks from local SQLite state
xhs_reply_notification	Reply to a specific notification

REST API

All /api/* endpoints require:

• Authorization: Bearer <token>
• Content-Type: application/json (for POST bodies)

Example:

# Login status
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
  http://127.0.0.1:9527/api/xhs/login/status

# Search notes
curl -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword":"travel","filters":{"sort":"popularity_descending"}}' \
  http://127.0.0.1:9527/api/xhs/search

Endpoint List

Read endpoints are limited to 60/min per IP. Write endpoints are limited to 10/min per IP.

Method	Path	Description	Limit
GET	/api/xhs/login/status	Check login status	60/min
GET	/api/xhs/login/qrcode	Get login QR code	60/min
DELETE	/api/xhs/login/cookies	Delete cookies	10/min
GET	/api/xhs/login/cookie-check	Check whether cookie file exists	60/min
GET	/api/xhs/feeds	Get recommended feeds	60/min
POST	/api/xhs/search	Search notes	60/min
POST	/api/xhs/feeds/detail	Get note detail	60/min
POST	/api/xhs/feeds/sub-comments	Load sub-comments for parent comment	60/min
POST	/api/xhs/user/profile	Get user profile	60/min
GET	/api/xhs/my-notes	List my published notes	60/min
POST	/api/xhs/publish/image	Publish image note	10/min
POST	/api/xhs/publish/video	Publish video note	10/min
POST	/api/xhs/comment	Post a comment	10/min
POST	/api/xhs/comment/reply	Reply to a comment	10/min
POST	/api/xhs/like	Toggle like	10/min
POST	/api/xhs/favorite	Toggle favorite	10/min
GET	/api/xhs/notifications/comments	Get comment notifications	60/min
GET	/api/xhs/notifications/unprocessed	Get unprocessed notification tasks from SQLite	60/min
POST	/api/xhs/notifications/reply	Reply to notification	10/min

Response Format

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {}
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "keyword: Required"
  }
}

Public Endpoints (No Bearer Token)

Method	Path	Description
GET	/health	Health check (uptime/memory/plugin status)
GET	/sse	MCP SSE transport
POST	/messages	MCP JSON-RPC message endpoint

Docker Deployment

Using Compose (Recommended)

cd deploy
docker compose up -d

# View logs
docker compose logs -f

# Find Bearer token in logs
docker compose logs social-mcp | grep "Bearer Token"

Docker Run

docker build -t social-mcp .

docker run -d \
  --name social-mcp \
  -p 127.0.0.1:3000:3000 \
  --shm-size=1gb \
  --memory=2g \
  --cpus=2.0 \
  --security-opt=no-new-privileges:true \
  --cap-drop=ALL \
  --read-only \
  --tmpfs /tmp:size=512m \
  -v social-mcp-data:/home/appuser/.social-mcp \
  social-mcp

Note: Docker defaults expose port 3000 because container env sets PORT=3000.

Environment Variables

Variable	Default (local)	Description
PORT	9527	HTTP server port
HOST	127.0.0.1	Bind address (0.0.0.0 requires ALLOW_REMOTE)
HEADLESS	true	Run browser in headless mode
BROWSER_BIN	(auto)	Custom Chromium executable path
LOG_LEVEL	info	Pino log level (debug, info, warn, error)
NODE_ENV	development	Runtime environment
COOKIE_DIR	~/.social-mcp	Cookie/token storage directory
MAX_QUEUE_DEPTH	10	Max pending operations per platform queue
ALLOW_REMOTE	(unset)	Must be yes-i-understand-the-risk to allow public bind
XHS_NOTIFICATION_POLL_ENABLED	true	Enable periodic notification sync into SQLite
XHS_NOTIFICATION_POLL_INTERVAL_SEC	60	Notification sync interval (seconds, min 15)
XHS_NOTIFICATION_POLL_MAX_COUNT	20	Max notifications fetched per sync

Project Structure

social-mcp/
├── src/
│   ├── index.ts
│   ├── server/
│   │   ├── app.ts
│   │   └── middleware.ts
│   ├── browser/
│   │   └── manager.ts
│   ├── cookie/
│   │   └── store.ts
│   ├── config/
│   │   └── index.ts
│   ├── utils/
│   │   ├── logger.ts
│   │   ├── errors.ts
│   │   └── downloader.ts
│   └── platforms/
│       └── xiaohongshu/
│           ├── index.ts
│           ├── routes.ts
│           ├── schemas.ts
│           ├── selectors.ts
│           ├── login.ts
│           ├── feeds.ts
│           ├── search.ts
│           ├── feed-detail.ts
│           ├── user-profile.ts
│           ├── my-notes.ts
│           ├── publish.ts
│           ├── publish-video.ts
│           ├── comment.ts
│           ├── interaction.ts
│           ├── notification.ts
│           ├── notification-state.ts
│           └── notification-sync.ts
└── web/
    └── src/

License

ISC