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Obsidian Vault MCP Server MCP Server

Name: Obsidian Vault MCP Server
Author: oleksandrkucherenko

Access Obsidian vaults via Local REST API - read, search, and interact with notes

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~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oleksandrkucherenko-mcp-obsidian-via-rest": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@oleksandrkucherenko/mcp-obsidian@1.3.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY",
        "API_URLS": "",
        "API_HOST": "",
        "API_PORT": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

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Environment

Name	Required	Notes
API_KEY	Yes	Obsidian Local REST API key Secret.
API_URLS	Yes	JSON array or semicolon-separated list of Obsidian REST API URLs for failover
API_HOST	No	Obsidian REST API host (legacy single-URL config)
API_PORT	No	Obsidian REST API port (legacy single-URL config)
API_KEY	Yes	Obsidian Local REST API key Secret.
API_URLS	Yes	JSON array or semicolon-separated list of Obsidian REST API URLs for failover
MCP_TRANSPORTS	No	Enabled transports (default: stdio,http)
MCP_HTTP_PORT	No	HTTP transport bind port (default: 3000)
MCP_HTTP_HOST	No	HTTP transport bind host (default: 0.0.0.0)
MCP_HTTP_TOKEN	No	Bearer token for HTTP transport authentication Secret.
API_KEY	Yes	Obsidian Local REST API key Secret.
API_URLS	Yes	JSON array of Obsidian REST API URLs (use host.docker.internal for local Obsidian)
MCP_TRANSPORTS	No	Enabled transports (default: stdio,http)
MCP_HTTP_PORT	No	HTTP transport bind port (default: 3000)
MCP_HTTP_TOKEN	No	Bearer token for HTTP transport authentication Secret.
API_KEY	Yes	Obsidian Local REST API key Secret.
API_URLS	Yes	JSON array of Obsidian REST API URLs (use host.docker.internal for local Obsidian)
MCP_TRANSPORTS	No	Enabled transports (default: stdio,http)
MCP_HTTP_PORT	No	HTTP transport bind port (default: 3000)
MCP_HTTP_TOKEN	No	Bearer token for HTTP transport authentication Secret.

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