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EAN-Search MCP Server

The EAN-Search.org MCP server gives AI assistants direct access to a huge barcode databases (currently 1.2 billion distinct barcodes), covering products from around the world in many languages. Assistants can resolve any EAN, GTIN, UPC or ISBN code to a product name, category and issuing country, or search by keywords to find matching products and their barcodes. This is useful for identifying items from a scanned or typed code, enriching product catalogs and inventories, verifying barcodes in e-commerce listings, and researching products or books without leaving the conversation.

Authorization required. Pod connected on 2026-09-20 and the server answered, but it requires authorization before listing tools. The 2 tools below remain publisher-reported and unverified.

Categorised under data-analytics, commerce. Published by ean-search.org.

At a glance

Available in: claude, claude-api, claude-code, claude-desktop

Documentation: Open docs

Source code: Open repository

GitHub popularity: 2 stars on eansearch/eansearch-mcp-server, recorded 2026-09-27.

Status

Pod connected to EAN-Search on 2026-09-20. It answered, but requires authorization before it will list its tools, responding in 724ms.

Why the tool list is not verified

EAN-Search refuses an anonymous tools/list, which is the correct thing for a server holding real user data to do. Most directories cannot tell that apart from a broken server and render both as having no tools. It is not broken — it is gated, and it answered us to say so.

Tools

Its publisher lists 2 tools. Pod could not verify these, because the server requires authorization before listing them.

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://www.ean-search.org/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ean-search": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.ean-search.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Published as eansearch-mcp-server on pypi. Runs locally.

A hosted endpoint at https://www.ean-search.org/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ean-search": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.ean-search.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used EAN-Search yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, contribute what you saw so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

Related servers

For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read, to search the canonical directory from your agent. Connect Pod to an agent.

See setup and API details

Search MCPs

Call find_mcp to find EAN-Search, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

{
  "query": "EAN-Search",
  "limit": 5
}

Use the returned canonical ID with inspect_mcp to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=EAN-Search' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'

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