MCP server

Namaste America Official

us.namasteamerica/namaste-america

Checked 28 Oct 2026, 09:03 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

Agent-first directory for Indians from India in the USA — restaurants, temples, events & more.

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At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

namasteamerica.us (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

66

Token cost

About 13,162 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

28 Oct 2026, 09:03 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http namaste-america https://namasteamerica.us/mcp

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.namaste-america]
url = "https://namasteamerica.us/mcp"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"namaste-america":{"httpUrl":"https://namasteamerica.us/mcp"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"namaste-america":{"url":"https://namasteamerica.us/mcp"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"namaste-america":{"type":"http","url":"https://namasteamerica.us/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add namaste-america https://namasteamerica.us/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"namaste-america","server_url":"https://namasteamerica.us/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"namaste-america","server_url":"https://namasteamerica.us/mcp"}

Tools

• ask_community_question ~222 tokens
  Ask the Namaste America community a question on behalf of a signed-in member. `member_email` must be the authenticated member's email (not free text) — it attributes the question and guards against spam. Questions are moderated: clean ones publish immediately, others are held for review.
• follow_city ~126 tokens
  Follow a city so the member is notified of new events there (e.g. "Plano, TX"). `member_email` must be the authenticated member's email. Returns {'ok'} or {'ok': False, 'error'}.
• get_apparel_details ~84 tokens
  Full canonical record for one apparel/jewelry store, plus its version history.
• get_community_answers ~125 tokens
  A community question + its published answers (Dost's AI answer first, then community answers by upvotes). `slug` comes from search_community_questions. Returns the question with an `answers` list, or {'error': 'not_found'}.
• get_community_details ~87 tokens
  Full canonical record for one community organization, plus its version history.
• get_education_details ~88 tokens
  Full canonical record for one education/tutoring listing, plus its version history.
• get_event_details ~76 tokens
  Full canonical record for one event, plus its version history.
• get_festival_dates ~236 tokens
  Upcoming Indian & South-Asian festival dates for planning in the USA. With no `query`, returns the next `limit` festivals soonest-first. With a `query` (e.g. "Diwali", "when is holi"), returns the single soonest matching festival. Each item has name, date (ISO), days_until, emoji and a
• get_finance_details ~83 tokens
  Full canonical record for one finance/tax listing, plus its version history.
• get_grocery_details ~81 tokens
  Full canonical record for one grocery store, plus its version history.
• get_h1b_sponsor_details ~140 tokens
  Full details for one H-1B sponsor (the id from search_h1b_sponsors). Returns the sponsor record (employer, certified counts, wages, top titles/states/cities, ...) or {'error': 'not_found'}. Aggregated from U.S. Department of Labor LCA disclosure data.
• get_indian_apparel ~304 tokens
  Find Indian apparel & jewelry stores (sarees, lehengas, ethnic wear, gold jewelers). Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`, optional `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Filter by `tag` (e.g. "saree", "bridal", "gold", "jewelry", "tailoring") or `open_now`.
• get_indian_community ~314 tokens
  Find Indian community organizations & cultural associations (regional samaj/sangam, cultural centers, Indo-American associations). Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`) or `city`/`state`. Filter by `tag` (e.g. a region like "telugu", "gujarati", or "association"/"cultural_center").
• get_indian_education ~300 tokens
  Find Indian-American education & tutoring (heritage/language schools, Bal Vihar, coaching). Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`, optional `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Filter by `tag` (e.g. "language_school", "heritage", "tutoring").
• get_indian_events ~408 tokens
  Find upcoming Indian-American community events (festivals, garba, concerts, puja). Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`, optional `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Filter by `category` ("festival", "garba", "concert", "puja", …) or `tag` ("diwali", "holi", …). Returns UPCOMING events by defaul
• get_indian_finance ~288 tokens
  Find Indian-American CPAs, tax preparers & financial advisors. Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`, optional `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Filter by `tag` (e.g. "cpa", "tax", "financial_advisor").
• get_indian_groceries ~347 tokens
  Find Indian grocery stores (desi groceries / supermarkets). Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`, optional `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Optional `region_tag` (e.g. "Gujarati"), `tag` (e.g. "spices", "halal"), `open_now`. Records include description, store type, tags, hours, region and `op
• get_indian_legal ~278 tokens
  Find Indian-American immigration attorneys & law firms. Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`, optional `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Filter by `tag` (e.g. "immigration").
• get_indian_movies_in_theaters ~218 tokens
  List Indian-language movies currently playing in US theaters (Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati). Optional `language` filters to one (e.g. "Telugu"). Each movie includes `title`, `language`, `poster_url`, `overview`, `release_date`, `genres`,
• get_indian_professionals ~419 tokens
  Find Indian-American healthcare professionals (doctors, dentists, clinics, pharmacies). Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`, optional `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Filter by `profession_type` ("doctors", "dentist", "clinic", "pharmacy"), `speciality` (e.g. "pediatrics", "cardiology", "ayu
• get_indian_realestate ~283 tokens
  Find Indian-American realtors & real-estate agencies. Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`, optional `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Filter by `tag` (e.g. "agency", "mortgage").
• get_indian_restaurants ~533 tokens
  Find Indian restaurants by location and/or filters. Provide either a point (`lat`+`lng`, optionally `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Optional filters: `region_tag` (e.g. "Gujarati", "South Indian"), `dietary_tags` (any of "vegetarian", "vegan", "halal", "jain"), `tag` (a keyword/dish
• get_indian_salons ~315 tokens
  Find Indian beauty salons (threading, henna/mehndi, hair, bridal). Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`, optional `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Filter by `tag` (e.g. "threading", "henna", "bridal") or `open_now`. Records include description, services (tags), hours and an `open_now` flag.
• get_indian_services ~314 tokens
  Find Indian community services (money transfer/remittance, banks, immigration/visa, travel agents, tax/insurance). Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`, optional `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Filter by `tag` (e.g. "money-transfer", "immigration", "travel", "tax") or `open_now`.
• get_indian_studios ~306 tokens
  Find Indian yoga & cultural studios (yoga, classical dance, music, language classes). Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`, optional `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Filter by `tag` (e.g. "yoga", "bharatanatyam", "kathak", "tabla", "carnatic") or `open_now`.
• get_indian_sweets ~289 tokens
  Find Indian sweets shops (mithai) & bakeries. Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`, optional `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Filter by `tag` (e.g. "mithai", "jalebi", "bakery", "eggless") or `open_now`.
• get_indian_temples ~380 tokens
  Find Indian-American temples (Hindu/Sikh/Jain places of worship). Provide a point (`lat`+`lng`, optional `radius_miles`) or `city`/`state`. Filter by `religion` ("hindu", "sikh", "jain"), `denomination` (e.g. "swaminarayan"), `tag`, or `open_now`. Records include description, deity, reg
• get_legal_details ~82 tokens
  Full canonical record for one immigration/legal listing, plus its version history.
• get_movie_details ~148 tokens
  Full details for one Indian movie (the id from get_indian_movies_in_theaters). Returns the movie record (title, language, overview, release_date, genres, poster_url, ...) or {'error': 'not_found'}. Movie data from TMDB; this product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by
• get_offers ~224 tokens
  Live offers & announcements posted by Indian-American business owners (e.g. "20% off thalis this week", "new weekend Garba class"), optionally filtered by city/state/vertical. Returns current, non-expired owner posts with the listing they belong to. Great for "any deals near me this wee
• get_professional_details ~91 tokens
  Full canonical record for one professional/practice, plus its version history.
• get_realestate_details ~87 tokens
  Full canonical record for one real-estate listing, plus its version history.
• get_restaurant_details ~88 tokens
  Fetch the full canonical record for one restaurant, plus its version history.
• get_reviews ~226 tokens
  Published community reviews for a listing (newest first) + its rolled-up community rating. The community rating is first-party (visitor-submitted) and is separate from any web-harvested `rating` returned by the get_/search_ tools. Each review includes the business owner's public reply w
• get_salon_details ~76 tokens
  Full canonical record for one salon, plus its version history.
• get_service_details ~82 tokens
  Full canonical record for one service business, plus its version history.
• get_studio_details ~78 tokens
  Full canonical record for one studio, plus its version history.
• get_sweets_details ~82 tokens
  Full canonical record for one sweets shop / bakery, plus its version history.
• get_temple_details ~78 tokens
  Full canonical record for one temple, plus its version history.
• get_today_highlights ~236 tokens
  What's happening in Indian America today, optionally for a city + languages — the upcoming festival (+ approximate tithi), soonest events nearby, Indian movies in theaters, places newly added in the city, a culture/immigration nugget, and trending community questions. `languages` is a c
• list_follows ~104 tokens
  What a member follows (cities + categories). `member_email` must be the authenticated member's email. Returns {'count', 'results': [{kind, value}]}.
• list_saved_places ~133 tokens
  A member's saved places (each joined to its live listing). `member_email` must be the authenticated member's email. Returns {'count', 'results': [{vertical, id, name, city, state}]}.
• save_place ~158 tokens
  Save a listing to a signed-in member's list. `member_email` must be the authenticated member's email. `vertical` + `listing_id` come from the get_/search_ tools. Returns {'ok', 'name'} or {'ok': False, 'error'}.
• search_all ~345 tokens
  Search across ALL Indian-American verticals at once — restaurants, temples, groceries, healthcare professionals, beauty salons, events, apparel & jewelry, sweets & bakeries, yoga/dance studios, and community services. Use for broad queries like "Indian things near me in Edison NJ" or "v
• search_apparel_by_text ~157 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over Indian apparel & jewelry stores.
• search_community_by_text ~162 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over Indian community organizations & associations.
• search_community_questions ~216 tokens
  Search the Namaste America community Q&A — real questions Indians in the USA ask and answer ("Telugu-speaking pediatrician in Plano?", "best sweets for Diwali in Edison?"). Returns published questions matching the query, most-answered first, each with a `slug` you can pass to get_commun
• search_education_by_text ~159 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over Indian-American education & tutoring.
• search_events_by_text ~166 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over Indian-American events (incl. past, for history). `offset` pages.
• search_finance_by_text ~164 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over Indian-American CPAs, tax preparers & financial advisors.
• search_groceries_by_text ~162 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over Indian grocery stores (name/region/store type).
• search_h1b_sponsors ~219 tokens
  Search US employers that sponsor H-1B visas — the visa most Indians-from-India use to work in the USA. Filter by employer name (`query`) and/or worksite `state` (2-letter). Ranked by number of certified Labor Condition Applications. Each result has `certified` (count), `median_wage`, `to
• search_knowledge ~240 tokens
  Grounded answers from the Namaste America knowledge base — culture, festivals, visa/H-1B, tax, banking, and newcomer/settling-in guides for Indians from India living in the USA. Returns the top matching passages, each with the source document's title + url so you can cite it. Optionally
• search_legal_by_text ~161 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over Indian-American immigration attorneys & law firms.
• search_professionals_by_text ~163 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over Indian-American healthcare professionals.
• search_realestate_by_text ~163 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over Indian-American realtors & real-estate agencies.
• search_restaurants_by_text ~216 tokens
  Free-text search over restaurant name/cuisine/region, ranked by relevance. Optionally constrain to a `city`/`state`. Featured listings are surfaced first. Use `offset` to page further (the response's `has_more` says whether another page exists).
• search_salons_by_text ~153 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over Indian beauty salons.
• search_services_by_text ~156 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over Indian community services.
• search_studios_by_text ~157 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over Indian yoga/dance/music studios.
• search_sweets_by_text ~156 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over Indian sweets shops & bakeries.
• search_temples_by_text ~159 tokens
  Free-text/semantic search over temples (name/deity/denomination/region).
• submit_correction ~343 tokens
  Propose a correction to a listing field (agents/users reporting bad data). `vertical` is the category key (default 'restaurants'); `listing_id` is the id from that category's get_/search_ tools. Correctable restaurant fields: phone, email, website, menu_url, address_full, city, state, r
• submit_listing ~336 tokens
  Submit a new Indian-American business/listing for REVIEW — it does NOT go live automatically. `vertical` is the category key (restaurants, temples, groceries, professionals, salons, apparel, sweets, studios, services, community, legal, education, realestate, finance — not events, which are
• submit_review ~259 tokens
  Submit a community review (1-5 star rating + optional text) for a listing. `vertical` is the category key (restaurants, temples, groceries, professionals, salons, apparel, sweets, studios, services, community, legal, education, realestate, finance) and `listing_id` is the id returned by
• unsave_place ~133 tokens
  Remove a listing from a member's saved list. `member_email` must be the authenticated member's email. Returns {'ok': True}.

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