About Dribba
Dribba provides an API, SDKs, CLI, and MCP servers for accessing public services, case studies, estimates, and site content. It requires no API key or account, and includes a stdio bridge for MCP clients that cannot connect over HTTP.
Key features
- 01Query services and case studies
- 02Estimate project budgets
- 03Ask questions in natural language
- 04Retrieve page Markdown and export multiple pages
- 05JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python SDKs
- 06Use sandbox data and CLI
Use cases
- 01Compare mobile app services and case studies
- 02Estimate budgets for iOS and Android projects
- 03Search site information from the command line
- 04Connect to MCP from a stdio-only client
MCP support
Dribba offers unauthenticated remote MCP servers for product actions and documentation. The package also includes a stdio bridge that forwards requests and exposes the remote servers’ tools and resources.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://dribba.com/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http com-dribba-dribba https://dribba.com/mcp{"mcpServers":{"com-dribba-dribba":{"type":"http","url":"https://dribba.com/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"com-dribba-dribba":{"type":"http","url":"https://dribba.com/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"com-dribba-dribba":{"type":"http","url":"https://dribba.com/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"com-dribba-dribba":{"serverUrl":"https://dribba.com/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
5| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | No | Maximum number of services to return. Omit for all of them. |
Details
From the project READMEdribba
Official SDK and CLI for the Dribba public API.
No API key, no OAuth, no account. Every read endpoint is public. If you were looking for the credentials page, there isn't one — see dribba.com/auth.md.
- Reference: https://dribba.com/docs
- Contract: https://dribba.com/openapi.json (OpenAPI 3.1)
- Developer portal: https://dribba.com/developers
CLI
Nothing to install:
npx dribba services --table
npx dribba cases --limit 3 | jq -r '.items[].slug'
npx dribba estimate --platforms ios,android --complexity complex
npx dribba ask "flutter migration"
npx dribba markdown /servicios
npx dribba --help
Add --sandbox to hit the frozen fixtures instead of production.
MCP server (stdio bridge)
Dribba's MCP server is remote — Streamable HTTP at https://dribba.com/mcp. If
your client only speaks stdio, this package ships the bridge:
{
"mcpServers": {
"dribba": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "dribba-mcp"] }
}
}
npx dribba-mcp # product surface: 5 tools + llms.txt resources
npx dribba-mcp --docs # documentation surface: 4 tools
It forwards JSON-RPC and nothing else, so the tools, resources and protocol version are whatever the server declares — there is no second implementation to drift. If your client does speak Streamable HTTP, skip the bridge and point it straight at the URL.
Verified with the official @modelcontextprotocol/sdk over stdio: connect,
tools/list, tools/call, resources/list, resources/read.
SDK
npm i dribba # JavaScript / TypeScript
pip install dribba # Python 3.9+, same methods, also dependency-free
The Python client lives in python/ and is published to PyPI as
dribba.
import { Dribba } from "dribba";
const dribba = new Dribba();
const { items, total, next_cursor } = await dribba.services({ limit: 5 });
const study = await dribba.case("cityxerpa");
const budget = await dribba.estimate({ platforms: ["ios", "android"] });
// Whole collections, following the cursor for you
for await (const job of dribba.paginate("/api/v1/jobs")) {
console.log(job.title);
}
Errors
Every 4xx/5xx throws a DribbaError. Branch on code — it is stable. title
and detail are prose and may be reworded.
import { DribbaError } from "dribba";
try {
await dribba.service("nope");
} catch (error) {
if (error instanceof DribbaError && error.code === "resource_not_found") {
console.log(error.resolution); // what to do next, from the server
}
}
Rate limits
120 requests per 60 seconds per IP. After any call, dribba.rateLimit holds what
the last response advertised, so you can self-throttle instead of provoking a
429:
await dribba.company();
console.log(dribba.rateLimit); // { limit: 120, remaining: 118, reset: 47 }
Sandbox
Frozen fixtures with production shapes. Useful because a test that asserts "there are 9 services" breaks the day we publish the tenth — against the sandbox it does not.
const sandbox = new Dribba({ sandbox: true });
const services = await sandbox.services(); // services.sandbox === true
Idempotency
Idempotency-Key on any POST. Same key and same body replays the stored
response; same key with a different body is a 400.
await dribba.estimate(input, { idempotencyKey: crypto.randomUUID() });
Markdown, and the async export
Any page as markdown, and a one-request export of many pages:
const page = await dribba.markdown("/servicios");
const job = await dribba.startExport(["/", "/precios", "/servicios"]);
await dribba.waitForExport(job.id);
const everything = await dribba.exportResult(job.id);
Export jobs live in one server instance's memory and expire after 15 minutes; a 404 while polling means the request reached a different instance, not that the work was lost.
Beyond the REST API
- MCP — two remote servers over Streamable HTTP, no auth:
https://dribba.com/mcp(actions) andhttps://dribba.com/docs/mcp(docs). See https://dribba.com/developers/mcp. - Markdown of any page —
Accept: text/markdown, or append.md. - The whole site as an OKF bundle.
/ask— NLWeb: a natural-language question, verbatim passages back.
Skills and the Agent Plugins manifest
This repo doubles as a portable Agent Plugin:
plugin.json the manifest
mcp.json the two remote MCP servers
skills/ seven SKILL.md files describing what dribba.com exposes
Install the skills into your agent:
npx skills add dribbaengineering/dribba
skills/ is generated from what the site serves at
https://dribba.com/.well-known/agent-skills/. Edit the site, not the copy — the
copy is what drifts.
Requirements
Node 20+. Zero dependencies.
License
MIT. The data behind the API is CC BY 4.0 — cite "Dribba" and link the source URL.
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