Unbrowse for Alternativeto (alternativeto.net)

Alternativeto as tools for your agent. Unofficial: not affiliated with or endorsed by alternativeto.net. Unbrowse compiled these from alternativeto.net's own requests: each call replays the site's first-party API server-side and returns a verified result. No scraping of rendered pages, no browser on your side, no alternativeto.net API key.

Connect the alternativeto.net MCP

This server is a tool scope holding only alternativeto.net: its compiled tools plus the Unbrowse tools that run them, so the agent's tool list stays small and every call stays on alternativeto.net.

claude mcp add --transport http alternativeto https://unbrowse.ai/mcp/alternativeto.net
codex mcp add alternativeto --url https://unbrowse.ai/mcp/alternativeto.net && codex mcp login alternativeto

{"mcpServers":{"alternativeto":{"url":"https://unbrowse.ai/mcp/alternativeto.net"}}}

The first connect signs in to Unbrowse with OAuth (free tier, only verified results count). For scripts, send Authorization: Bearer $UNBROWSE_API_KEY (key from https://unbrowse.ai/app/keys; keep it in a secret manager, never in config you commit).

If none of the tools below are in this session's tool list, the server is not connected or not signed in: say so and stop. Do not fetch alternativeto.net some other way and present it as this skill's result.

Tools

alternativeto_net__get_browse_search — Search software on AlternativeTo

Search software on AlternativeTo. Inputs: query. Returns the page's title, readable text and links. Read-only on alternativeto.net.

• query (string, required) — query (typed during “fill Search”)
• select (array) — Keep only these parts of the result: dots walk keys, [] maps over a list, a final {a,b} keeps several keys (e.g. "results[].{title,url}"). Unmatched paths come back in selectMissing.

{"query":"<query>"}

alternativeto_net__post_indexes_queries_2 — Search alternativeto

Search alternativeto. Inputs: query. Returns results. Read-only on alternativeto.net.

• query (string, required) — query (typed during “fill Search”)
• x_algolia_agent (string) — optional, e.g. "Algolia for JavaScript (5.59.0); Lite (5.59.0); Browser"
• x_algolia_application_id (string) — optional, e.g. "ZIDPNS2VB0"
• select (array) — Keep only these parts of the result: dots walk keys, [] maps over a list, a final {a,b} keeps several keys (e.g. "results[].{title,url}"). Unmatched paths come back in selectMissing.

{"query":"<query>"}

alternativeto_net__get_items_available_filters — Browse apps by category

Browse apps by category. No inputs. Returns platformsFilters, featureFilters, licenseFilters, originFilters. Read-only on alternativeto.net.

• category (string) — optional, e.g. "security"
• excludeMetatags (string) — optional, e.g. "nsfw-warning,legal-warning,block-as-alternative"
• uriAsBase64 (string) — optional, e.g. "aHR0cHM6Ly9hbHRlcm5hdGl2ZXRvLm5ldC9icm93c2UvYWxsLz9jYXRlZ29yeT1zZWN1cml0eQ=="
• select (array) — Keep only these parts of the result: dots walk keys, [] maps over a list, a final {a,b} keeps several keys (e.g. "results[].{title,url}"). Unmatched paths come back in selectMissing.

{"category":"security","excludeMetatags":"nsfw-warning,legal-warning,block-as-alternative","uriAsBase64":"aHR0cHM6Ly9hbHRlcm5hdGl2ZXRvLm5ldC9icm93c2UvYWxsLz9jYXRlZ29yeT1zZWN1cml0eQ=="}

alternativeto_net__render_page — Search apps and software

Search apps and software. Inputs: query. Returns the page's title, readable text and links. Read-only on alternativeto.net.

• query (string, required) — query — what to search for on alternativeto.net
• select (array) — Keep only these parts of the result: dots walk keys, [] maps over a list, a final {a,b} keeps several keys (e.g. "results[].{title,url}"). Unmatched paths come back in selectMissing.

{"query":"<query>"}

alternativeto_net__read_page — Read a alternativeto.net software page

Read a alternativeto.net software page. Inputs: software. Returns the page's title, readable text and links. Read-only on alternativeto.net.

• software (string, required)
• select (array) — Keep only these parts of the result: dots walk keys, [] maps over a list, a final {a,b} keeps several keys (e.g. "results[].{title,url}"). Unmatched paths come back in selectMissing.

{"software":"<software>"}

Always there too: unbrowse.run (a task on alternativeto.net in plain words), unbrowse.inspect, unbrowse.resume, unbrowse.scrape and unbrowse.map (any page on alternativeto.net), and the recorded cloud browser unbrowse.browse.open → unbrowse.browse.act → unbrowse.browse.finish. Hosts that reject dotted names show them with _ (unbrowse_run).

How to call

1. Pick the tool whose title matches the job and pass its inputs. Leave the site's recorded parameters out unless the user asked for something they control.
2. Read status. succeeded carries the verified result. input_required is not a failure: answer the open fields with unbrowse.resume {runId, answers} on the same run.
3. No tool fits: unbrowse.run {task}. It fails with no_capability when nothing is compiled for that yet: do it once with unbrowse.browse.open on alternativeto.net → unbrowse.browse.act → unbrowse.browse.finish, which compiles a new tool this server lists next time. Anything off alternativeto.net is refused here (not_in_scope): use the general Unbrowse server for that.
4. Signing in: never ask the user for a password. unbrowse.browse.act with action: "autofill" fills alternativeto.net's login from their Unbrowse password manager.
5. Report only what a succeeded result says. outcome_unknown means a change may have happened: check before retrying. Posting, buying, sending or deleting needs the user's go-ahead.

Without MCP

Every tool is also a REST call:

curl -s https://unbrowse.ai/api/v1/sites/alternativeto.net/call/alternativeto_net__get_browse_search \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $UNBROWSE_API_KEY" -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"<query>"}'

OpenAPI: https://unbrowse.ai/api/v1/sites/alternativeto.net/openapi.json. Every other site: the general Unbrowse skill (https://github.com/unbrowse-ai/unbrowse) and https://unbrowse.ai/mcp.