bodymeasure

bodymeasure

How tall is a 30-year-old man at the 50th percentile in the US? And which percentile does a measured popliteal height of 43.1 cm land on for a 34-year-old woman? bodymeasure asks the Humanform API — a service of anthropometric reference data — and returns its answers as JSON, in both directions:

• Forward: give a percentile, get the measurement value that sits there for a person of a given sex, age, and country.
• Reverse: give a measured value, get the percentile it falls on for that same kind of person.

Two catalogue calls round out the surface: the measurement names and body groups the API supports, and its country codes and labels.

Configuration

You bring your own Humanform API key:

export HUMANFORM_API_KEY="your key"

Without it, bodymeasure does not guess: every call fails with HUMANFORM_API_KEY is not set, no request is made, and no measurement is invented. HUMANFORM_API_URL overrides the API base URL (https://api.humanform.app by default).

CLI

Each subcommand takes its arguments as one JSON string; the two list commands take "{}".

HUMANFORM_API_KEY=... npx @reneturcios/bodymeasure predict_measurement '{"measurement":"Stature","sex":"Male","age":30,"percentile":50,"country":"US","unit":"cm"}'
HUMANFORM_API_KEY=... npx @reneturcios/bodymeasure percentile_lookup '{"measurement":"PoplitealHeight","sex":"Female","age":34,"country":"US","unit":"cm","value":43.1}'
HUMANFORM_API_KEY=... npx @reneturcios/bodymeasure list_measurements '{}'
HUMANFORM_API_KEY=... npx @reneturcios/bodymeasure list_countries '{}'
npx @reneturcios/bodymeasure --version

Output is the Humanform payload as JSON. Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 on a runtime error (including a missing key, a validation failure, or an upstream error), 2 on a usage error.

Arguments are checked before any request: string arguments must be non-empty, age must be a finite number greater than 0, percentile must lie strictly between 0 and 100, and a lookup value must be finite. When the API itself answers with an error body carrying error and message fields, that pair is reported as <error>: <message>.

MCP server

npx -y @reneturcios/bodymeasure mcp

MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bodymeasure": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/bodymeasure", "mcp"],
      "env": { "HUMANFORM_API_KEY": "your key" }
    }
  }
}

Tools

• predict_measurement — Forward lookup: percentile → measurement value. Requires measurement, sex, age, percentile, country, and unit.
• percentile_lookup — Reverse lookup: measured value → percentile. Requires measurement, sex, age, country, unit, and value.
• list_measurements — List all supported measurement names and body groups. No arguments.
• list_countries — List supported country codes and labels. No arguments.

Docker

docker run -i -e HUMANFORM_API_KEY="your key" ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/bodymeasure
docker run --rm -e HUMANFORM_API_KEY="your key" ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/bodymeasure list_countries '{}'

Development

npm install
npm run build   # tsc -> dist/
npm test        # tsx --test test/*.test.ts (fake fetch, no network)
npm run dev     # run the CLI from source

License

MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 Rene Turcios