radarr-mcp

Part of the arr-mcps collection. MCP server exposing Radarr's v3 REST API (OpenAPI 3.0.4) as tools, so an LLM can read and manage a Radarr instance: movies, movie files, the download queue, history, indexers, import lists, custom formats, tags, commands, system status, and more. Full surface — reads and writes, with destructive tools flagged.

Built with FastMCP.

Getting an API key

Generate one in Radarr Settings > General > Security. Auth is the X-Api-Key header.

Install

Download a wheel from the latest release and install it as a uv tool (no repo checkout needed):

uv tool install radarr_mcp-*.whl

This puts a radarr-mcp command on your PATH. Register it with Claude Code:

claude mcp add radarr \
  --env RADARR_URL=http://your-radarr-host:7878 \
  --env RADARR_API_KEY=<key> \
  -- radarr-mcp

From source

uv sync
cp .env.example .env   # fill in RADARR_URL and RADARR_API_KEY

claude mcp add radarr \
  --env RADARR_URL=http://your-radarr-host:7878 \
  --env RADARR_API_KEY=<key> \
  -- uv run --directory /path/to/radarr-mcp radarr-mcp

Config

Env var	Required	Default
RADARR_URL	yes	-
RADARR_API_KEY	yes*	none (no X-Api-Key header sent if unset)

* Every API endpoint requires auth; practically you must set it, but the server still starts without one so errors surface from the API rather than at startup.

Tools

15 resource-scoped tools, each covering multiple Radarr v3 endpoints (226 total) via an operation parameter. Call a tool with operation set to one of its listed operations and an arguments dict matching that operation's parameters — the tool's own description (visible to your MCP client) lists every operation, its signature, and a one-line doc. This keeps the full REST surface available while costing a fraction of the context budget of registering all 226 endpoints as separate tools.

Tool	Operations	Kind
radarr_profiles_formats	43	reads + writes
radarr_media_library	32	reads + writes
radarr_config	28	reads + writes
radarr_import_lists	21	reads + writes
radarr_system_commands	20	reads + writes
radarr_notifications_metadata	18	reads + writes
radarr_download_clients	16	reads + writes
radarr_indexers	11	reads + writes
radarr_history_blocklist	8	reads + writes
radarr_storage	8	reads + writes
radarr_queue	7	reads + writes
radarr_tags	7	reads + writes
radarr_release_search	4	reads + writes
radarr_wanted	2	read-only
radarr_calendar	1	read-only

Example: radarr_queue(operation="radarr_delete_queue", arguments={"id": 42}). Endpoint-level naming (radarr_<verb>_<resource>) is preserved as the operation value, so the full endpoint list is still discoverable from each group tool's description at runtime.

Development

make help  # list all commands

Command	Does
make sync	uv sync
make test	Offline tests - one per endpoint, mocked HTTP
make test-integration	Tests against the live instance (needs RADARR_URL/RADARR_API_KEY)
make build	Build wheel + sdist into dist/
make bump-patch / bump-minor / bump-major	Bump the version in pyproject.toml + uv.lock
make clean	Remove build artifacts

The release workflow (.github/workflows/release.yml) builds and publishes to Releases whenever a v* tag is pushed - so the usual flow is make bump-patch, commit, then tag and push.

The integration suite is read-only by default (GET endpoints only). Set RADARR_WRITE_TESTS=1 to also exercise POST/PUT/DELETE against a scratch tag (created, updated, then deleted). Never run write tests against a production library.