Read inboxes, messages, contacts, groups, tags and scheduled messages. Hosted by usefulapi: connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client.
Turn on the Text Request connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
For support and customer service teams reviewing conversations in Text Request.
Choose a texting dashboard, review unresolved conversations and read a contact’s message history before drafting a reply for review.
Find a contact and review group and tag membership, blocked or suppressed state, and opt-out information before deciding on a follow-up.
Read scheduled one-to-one messages and inspect a selected message’s recipient and recurrence settings before reviewing the reminder wording.
Read dashboard message history within a UTC time range to summarize message direction, contact numbers and delivery states.
The login page asks for your Text Request API key.
Get your key in Integrations → API Access. Your Text Request account must have the API Access entitlement/add-on enabled. Revoke or replace the key in Text Request to revoke vendor access. Billing and usage are per API key; replacing it creates a separate identity. Requested customer messages and contact data pass through UsefulAPI to your chosen AI client and its model provider. This independent integration excludes the provisioning API.
Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.
No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.
Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:
Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"text-request": {
"url": "https://text-request.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"text-request": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://text-request.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:
Windsurf, Cline, Zed and other MCP clients: add this URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser.
Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Text Request API key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
| Plan | Price | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 tool calls / month |
| Proper API key | $9/mo · $90/yr | 10,000 tool calls / month |
| Pro+per API key | $39/mo · $390/yr | 100,000 tool calls / month |
Each paid plan covers this Text Request server only. Ask your AI to run textrequest_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. The change requires your confirmation, keeps your billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. Cancel any time with textrequest_cancel_subscription: your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and asking to resume the same plan with textrequest_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
textrequest_list_dashboardstextrequest_get_dashboardtextrequest_list_conversationstextrequest_list_contact_messagestextrequest_list_messagestextrequest_list_contactstextrequest_get_contacttextrequest_list_scheduled_messagestextrequest_get_scheduled_messagetextrequest_list_groupstextrequest_get_grouptextrequest_list_tagstextrequest_get_tagtextrequest_list_keywordstextrequest_get_keywordtextrequest_list_userstextrequest_get_usertextrequest_list_field_definitionstextrequest_get_field_definitiontextrequest_usage_statustextrequest_request_featuretextrequest_upgradetextrequest_cancel_subscriptionTriage unresolved conversations. Check contact context before following up. Review scheduled reminders. Review recent messaging activity. See what you can do for the details.
No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Text Request. The server calls the Text Request API with your own Text Request access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.
Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.
The login page asks for your Text Request API key. See Before you connect for where to find it.
No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Text Request API key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the Text Request API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in Text Request.
All 19 Text Request tools are marked read-only.
The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with 10,000 tool calls / month. Pro+ costs $39/mo or $390/yr, with 100,000 tool calls / month. Each subscription covers this Text Request server only. Cancel any time: your paid plan then runs to the end of the paid period. Run textrequest_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run textrequest_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. After you confirm, your existing subscription changes in place, keeps its billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. To cancel, run textrequest_cancel_subscription. Your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period.
Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with textrequest_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.
Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.
This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.
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