ParentSquare MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives Claude access to ParentSquare, a school-parent communication platform. Since ParentSquare has no public API, this server scrapes the web interface using saved session cookies.

Available on the MCP Registry as io.github.thehesiod/psquare and on PyPI as parentsquare-mcp.

Features

Feed & Posts

• get_feeds — Browse paginated school feed with titles, authors, summaries, and attachment names
• get_post — Full post details with body text, comments, poll results, signup items, and inline image/PDF content (Claude can "see" attached calendars, flyers, etc.)
• get_group_feed — Posts from a specific group

Calendar

• get_calendar_events — Events from ICS calendar as structured JSON (title, start/end, location, description)
• Falls back to guiding Claude to search feed posts for image/PDF calendars when ICS is empty

Communication

• list_conversations / get_conversation — Read message threads
• get_directory — Staff directory as structured JSON (name, role, phone, user_id)
• get_staff_member — Full staff details with email, office hours, and inline profile photo

Media & Files

• list_photos — Photo gallery with URLs
• list_files — Document files
• download_file — Download any attachment to local disk

Participate

• list_signups — Sign-up and RSVP posts with progress tracking (e.g. "53/103 Items")
• list_notices — Alerts and secure documents
• list_polls — Polls with vote counts and winning options
• list_forms — Permission slips and signable forms
• list_payments — Payment items with prices and summary stats
• list_volunteer_hours — Logged volunteer hours with totals

Groups & Discovery

• list_schools — Schools and students as structured JSON
• list_school_features — Available sections per school (parsed from sidebar)
• list_groups — Groups with member counts, descriptions, and membership status
• list_links — Quick-access links (Google Drive, external sites)

Student

• get_student_dashboard — School, grade, classes, and teachers as structured JSON

Authentication

• submit_mfa_code — Complete MFA verification with a 6-digit code
• Supports MCP elicitation for inline MFA prompts
• Session cookies persisted to ~/.parentsquare_cookies.json
• Credentials loaded from 1Password CLI on session expiry

Setup

Prerequisites

• 1Password CLI (op) with a "Parentsquare" item containing username and password fields

Install in Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio parentsquare -- uvx --from git+https://github.com/thehesiod/psquare-mcp parentsquare-mcp

To enable PDF text extraction for post attachments (optional, AGPL-3.0 licensed):

claude mcp add --transport stdio parentsquare -- uvx --from "psquare-mcp[pdf] @ git+https://github.com/thehesiod/psquare-mcp" parentsquare-mcp

That's It

No further configuration needed. The server auto-discovers your schools, students, and user ID from ParentSquare on first use. Authentication is handled automatically via 1Password CLI — when the session expires, the server loads your credentials from 1Password and re-authenticates (including MFA if needed).

How It Works

The server uses requests + BeautifulSoup to scrape ParentSquare's server-rendered HTML pages. Each tool follows the pattern:

1. Fetch the HTML page via PSClient.get_page() or JSON via PSClient.get_json() (auto-relogins on session expiry)
2. Parse with a dedicated parser in parsers/ that extracts structured data into dataclasses
3. Return results as either structured JSON dicts (for data-lookup tools) or markdown text (for content-rich tools)

Data-lookup tools (list_schools, get_directory, get_calendar_events, get_student_dashboard, get_staff_member) return structured JSON for easy programmatic access. Content tools (get_post, get_feeds, get_conversation) return markdown.

On first use, the server auto-discovers your schools, students, and user ID from ParentSquare (no config file needed).

For get_post, image attachments are downloaded and returned as MCP Image objects (so Claude can see them), and PDF attachments have their text extracted via pymupdf. get_staff_member also returns inline profile photos.

Groups use a GraphQL endpoint (/graphql) instead of HTML scraping. The directory and staff details use the internal /api/v2/ JSON:API.

Dependencies

Package	Purpose	License
mcp	Model Context Protocol SDK	MIT
requests	HTTP client	Apache 2.0
beautifulsoup4	HTML parsing	MIT
icalendar	ICS calendar parsing	BSD
pymupdf	PDF text extraction (optional)	AGPL-3.0

License

MIT — see LICENSE. Note: the optional pymupdf dependency is AGPL-3.0 licensed.

mcp-name: io.github.thehesiod/psquare