INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

list_datasets

List every dataset DataScoop carries (official public records: UK food hygiene ratings, Scotland FHIS, CQC care providers, the UK charity register, US restaurant inspections, US building permits, and more as added) with country, coverage, row count, licence, refresh date and the page URLs.

datascoop.ionone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://datascoop.io/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for list_datasets and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent server

datascoop.io

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.datascoop]
url = "https://datascoop.io/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datascoop": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://datascoop.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: datascoop
Remote MCP URL: https://datascoop.io/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "datascoop": {
      "url": "https://datascoop.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "datascoop": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://datascoop.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "datascoop",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://datascoop.io/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

search_datasets — Find which DataScoop dataset answers a need, by keywords such as "care homes Yorkshire", "restaurant inspections Chicago", "charities income", "food hygiene Leeds", "building permits".
get_dataset_schema — Get a dataset's columns and the exact filters it accepts (key, type, allowed options, example).
query_dataset — Return the rows of a dataset that match a set of filters, with the total count and the attribution to cite.
get_area_statistics — Free aggregate statistics for datasets that have a rating (food hygiene ratings by local authority, Scotland FHIS by council, US restaurant inspections and building permits by city area): totals, share rated well or poorly, rank among areas, breakdown by type, and the most recently rated low performers.
get_access_info — How to get full access: the current plan of this connection, row caps, prices (free preview, one-off export, Pro subscription), the signup and pricing URLs, how to pass an API key, and the wording to use when telling a user how to get every row.