Geizhals

A small MCP server that lets an assistant search geizhals.de and look up shop prices for a product. I built it to stop tabbing back and forth to the browser while comparing hardware prices.

It exposes two tools:

• search_products(query, limit=15) – full-text product search; returns the lowest price, number of offers and the product URL for each hit.
• get_product(product) – takes a product URL or id and lists the individual shop offers (cheapest first) with the price range.

Install

git clone https://github.com/spinnerich/geizhals-mcp
cd geizhals-mcp
uv sync          # or: pip install -e .

Wiring it into a client

For Claude Code, one command does it (point it at wherever you cloned the repo):

claude mcp add geizhals -- uv --directory /path/to/geizhals-mcp run geizhals-mcp

Add --scope user to make it available in every project, or -e KEY=value to set any of the variables below. claude mcp list shows it's registered.

For Claude Desktop, add this to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "geizhals": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["run", "geizhals-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to test: uv run geizhals-mcp.

Configuration

A few environment variables, all optional:

Variable	Default	Purpose
GEIZHALS_DOMAIN	geizhals.de	Use geizhals.at or geizhals.eu for other regions.
GEIZHALS_MIN_DELAY	1.0	Minimum seconds between requests.
GEIZHALS_IMPERSONATE	chrome	curl_cffi browser profile used for the TLS handshake.

Caveats

Geizhals has no public API, so this reads the normal website. The site is behind Cloudflare, which is why the requests go through curl_cffi with a browser TLS fingerprint – a plain HTTP client just gets a 403. Because there's no API the parsing is tied to the current page layout and may need a nudge when they change things.

Keep the request rate sane (the default delay is there for a reason) and use this for your own price checks, not for hammering their servers.