npx flippa-mcp-server

Why Flippa MCP

Flippa is the world's largest marketplace for buying and selling online businesses — websites, SaaS products, ecommerce stores, apps, newsletters, and more. Thousands of listings, each with revenue claims, traffic stats, and asking prices that may or may not make sense.

Evaluating a listing manually means checking revenue multiples, comparing prices across similar businesses, assessing risk factors, and doing math you'll probably get wrong at 2am. Multiply that by the dozens of listings you need to review to find a good deal.

Flippa MCP gives Claude full marketplace intelligence. Five specialized tools that search listings, pull detailed financials, compute valuation metrics, find comparable sales, and generate market overviews. Zero configuration. No API key. No Flippa account. Just install and ask Claude to find you a good deal.

Who This Is For

• Entrepreneurs evaluating businesses to buy on Flippa
• Investors doing due diligence on online business acquisitions
• Sellers researching pricing and market conditions before listing
• Anyone who wants AI-powered marketplace intelligence without the spreadsheet grind

Getting Started

Install

npx flippa-mcp-server

Or install globally:

npm install -g flippa-mcp-server

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add to your Claude Desktop config file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flippa": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["flippa-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

[!TIP] No API key required! The Flippa listings API is public. All 5 tools work without any authentication or Flippa account.

Tools

Examples

Search for profitable SaaS businesses

"Find me SaaS listings on Flippa sorted by most profitable"

Uses flippa_search_listings with property_type: "saas" and sort_alias: "most_profitable".

Analyze a specific listing

"Analyze Flippa listing 12299903 — is it fairly priced?"

Uses flippa_analyze_listing to compute revenue multiples, ROI, and risk factors, then delivers a verdict.

Compare with the market

"Find comparable listings for this SaaS business and tell me if the asking price is reasonable"

Uses flippa_comparable_sales to find similar listings by type and revenue range, then compares pricing.

Get a market snapshot

"Give me an overview of the current Flippa marketplace for ecommerce stores"

Uses flippa_market_overview to aggregate stats across all ecommerce listings.

Deep dive evaluation

"Search for the top 5 most profitable websites on Flippa, then analyze each one and tell me which is the best deal"

Chains flippa_search_listings → flippa_analyze_listing across multiple listings to find the best opportunity.

How Analysis Works

The flippa_analyze_listing tool fetches a listing and computes valuation metrics:

Verdict Logic

Risk Factors Detected

The tool automatically flags these concerns:

• No reported revenue or profit
• Traffic data unavailable or very low (< 1,000 uniques/mo)
• Revenue not verified by Flippa
• Traffic not verified by Flippa
• Seller is not a Super Seller
• No bids on the listing
• No images provided
• Very short listing description (< 100 chars)
• Confidential listing with limited data

Configuration

With environment variables

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flippa": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["flippa-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "FLIPPA_API_TOKEN": "your-token-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Supported Property Types

Development

git clone https://github.com/sind00/flippa-mcp.git
cd flippa-mcp
npm install
npm run dev    # Watch mode with tsx
npm run build  # Compile TypeScript
npm start      # Run compiled server

Project Structure

src/
  index.ts              # Server entry point
  types.ts              # TypeScript interfaces
  constants.ts          # Configuration constants
  schemas/
    listing.ts          # Zod validation schemas
  services/
    flippa-client.ts    # HTTP client (retry, rate limiting)
    formatter.ts        # Response formatting (markdown/json)
  tools/
    search.ts           # flippa_search_listings
    details.ts          # flippa_get_listing
    analyze.ts          # flippa_analyze_listing
    compare.ts          # flippa_comparable_sales
    market.ts           # flippa_market_overview

Support This Project

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License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.