Pinch Grocery Prices (Australia)
com.pinch-app/grocery · 1.0.0
Live Australian grocery prices from Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and Harris Farm.
Nobody here has read this server's code, because it publishes none. The description above is the maker's own, from the registry. A connection test shows whether it answers and what tools it says it has; it never calls a tool, so it cannot show what one does with your data.
Where it sits in the directory's order
What can be seen from outside, weighed as the directory publishes.
Observable signals: 60 of 100 points (at most 60 here)
| Input | Points | What was seen |
|---|---|---|
| Source published | held at 0 | No entry here publishes source: that is what puts it in this directory. |
| Licence stated | held at 0 | With no files, there is nothing for a licence to be stated in or held against. |
| Advisory state | held at 0 | Advisory databases index packages, and these entries publish none, so there is nothing to look up. |
| Auth declared | 15 of 15 | The registry entry declares a key or a token. |
| Latest connection test reached it | 20 of 20 | The latest test had its handshake answered. |
Where it answers
https://pinch-app.com/api/mcpstreamable-httpAuthorizationrequired, secret: Bearer token. Get a free API key: POST https://pinch-app.com/api/register with {"name","email"}. Free tier is 30 requests/min, 1000/day.
Connection test
The MCP handshake, then a request for the tool list, with no key and no data of yours. Run nightly, and by anyone, at most once every ten minutes per server.
It completed the handshake and listed 10 tools.
- Protocol
- 2025-06-18
- Calls itself
- pinch-grocery-data 1.0.0
- Handshake time
- 586 ms
- HTTP status
- 200
The tools it lists (10, as of 2 days ago)
The tool-description rules found nothing in these descriptions. They look for instructions aimed at a model and for hidden characters; they cannot see what a tool does when it runs.
search_productsSearch Australian grocery products across Woolworths, Coles, Aldi, and Harris Farm. Returns product name, price, brand, category, unit price, and whether it's on special.
get_productGet detailed information about a specific grocery product by its ID. Product IDs are returned in search results.
compare_pricesCompare prices for the same product across retailers using its barcode. Returns all retailers stocking the product, sorted cheapest first. About 7,800 products have barcode matches.
get_price_historyGet historical price data for a product. Shows price changes over time with stats (lowest, highest, average). History depth depends on your tier (30-365 days).
get_specialsGet current grocery specials and promotions. Filter by retailer or category. Results include savings amounts. Updated weekly. Specials captured before the most recent Wednesday catalogue changeover (Coles/Woolworths) are excluded as unconfirmed; after a changeover the list can be near-empty until the next collection. Individual products still expose such prices via get_product with special_may_have_ended: true.
get_cheapestFind the cheapest option for a product across all Australian grocery retailers. Searches by name and returns results sorted by price ascending.
decompose_productADVANCED / single item. Do NOT use this to build a shopping list: for any list of 2 or more items, call build_basket (one call, server-side). Use decompose_product only to break ONE item into structured search attributes when you intend to override build_basket's pick for that single item. This does not call any API; it is a structured reasoning step. OUTPUT: canonical_query, disqualifiers, and suggested_category for that single item. Fill in every field based on what a typical Australian family would mean by this item. CORE RULE: Unless the user literally specifies a brand, brand_preference
How this entry becomes a listing
For the maker. The catalogue lists what it can read, and this server publishes nothing to read yet. There are two routes, and only the first is open today.
Publish the source Open today
- Put the server's source in a public repository on github.com, with a licence.
- Keep a server.json in that repository naming this server,
com.pinch-app/grocery, and declare the repository in it:"repository": { "url": "https://github.com/owner/repo", "source": "github" }, adding"subfolder"when the server lives in a folder. - Publish that version to the official MCP registry.
- The nightly registry sweep records the declaration. This page stays, dated, and says the source is declared but not yet read.
- The catalogue reads declared repositories at a pinned commit, in batches run by hand, and lists the servers that meet the batch's rules (among them a server.json at that commit naming the server, an https endpoint and a licence). When it lists this server, this page links to the listing. There is no schedule, so no date can be promised.
List it through the maker studio Not open yet
From the official MCP registry, last updated there 53 days ago. The registry entry · pinch-app.com