Use India API from your AI assistant

Connect the MCP server and your assistant can look up pincodes, IFSC codes, holidays and more by itself. No key, no sign-up, nothing to install.

https://api.dharun.dev/mcp

Streamable HTTP, stateless, no authentication. Each of the 44 tools returns exactly what the matching REST endpoint returns.

Claude Code

Add the server, or install the plugin, which brings the skill as well.

claude mcp add --transport http india-api https://api.dharun.dev/mcp

# or the plugin (skill and MCP server together)
/plugin marketplace add dharunashokkumar/api.dharun.dev
/plugin install india-api@dharun-dev

Claude (claude.ai and Claude Desktop)

Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector. Name it India API and paste the address. No authentication is needed.

https://api.dharun.dev/mcp

ChatGPT

Where your plan allows custom connectors: turn on developer mode in Settings, then create a connector with this address and no authentication.

https://api.dharun.dev/mcp

VS Code (GitHub Copilot)

Use the button, or add this to .vscode/mcp.json.

{
  "servers": {
    "india-api": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.dharun.dev/mcp" }
  }
}

Install in VS Code

Cursor

Use the button, or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "india-api": { "url": "https://api.dharun.dev/mcp" }
  }
}

Install in Cursor

Windsurf

Add this to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "india-api": { "serverUrl": "https://api.dharun.dev/mcp" }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Add this to ~/.gemini/settings.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "india-api": { "httpUrl": "https://api.dharun.dev/mcp" }
  }
}

OpenAI Codex

Add this to ~/.codex/config.toml.

[mcp_servers.india-api]
url = "https://api.dharun.dev/mcp"

Teach your coding agent the API

The Agent Skill tells Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI and other agents when to use this API and how to call it. It is generated from the same catalog as these pages.

npx skills add dharunashokkumar/api.dharun.dev

Or download it and upload it where your assistant takes skills, such as claude.ai: india-api.zip. Read it first at SKILL.md. The skill is MIT-0.

Try asking

Which district and state is pincode 637001 in?
Which bank branch is IFSC SBIN0000001, and does it support RTGS?
Is 26 January 2026 a bank holiday in Tamil Nadu? What is the next working day?
Write 1,25,000.50 rupees in words in Hindi.
Is GSTIN 27AAPFU0939F1ZV well formed, and which state is it from?

Tools

Tool	What it does
`get_company_logo`	Get the logo URLs (SVG and PNG) and details of a company listed on India's NSE or BSE. Accepts a ticker (TCS), exchange-qualified ticker (NSE:TCS), Yahoo symbol (TCS.NS) or ISIN.
`search_companies`	Search Indian listed companies by ticker, name, sector, industry, ISIN or index name (for example 'Nifty 50'). Returns details with logo URLs.
`lookup_pincode`	Look up an Indian pincode: its district, state and every post office that uses it.
`search_post_offices`	Find Indian post offices and their pincodes by the start of the office name, optionally within a state or district.
`lookup_ifsc`	Look up an Indian bank branch by its IFSC: bank, branch, address, MICR and supported payment systems.
`search_bank_branches`	Find branches of one Indian bank by state, city or text in the branch name or address. Needs the four-letter bank code; use search_banks to find it.
`search_banks`	Find Indian banks and their four-letter codes by name.
`lookup_rto`	Find which Regional Transport Office an Indian vehicle registration belongs to. Accepts a code (TN-28) or a full number plate (TN28AB1234).
`list_holidays`	List Indian holidays for a year: bank holidays, central government holidays, and stock market trading and clearing holidays. Filter by type, state or month.
`number_to_words`	Spell a number or rupee amount in words using the Indian system (lakh, crore), in English, Hindi or Tamil.
`validate_identifier`	Check the format of an Indian GSTIN, PAN or IFSC. Format only: it does not confirm the identifier was issued.
`lookup_airport`	Look up an airport by IATA code (MAA) or ICAO code (VOMM): name, city, state, country, coordinates and whether it has scheduled flights.
`search_airports`	Search airports by name or city, worldwide (those with IATA codes) and every Indian airfield and heliport. Filter by country (ISO code) or Indian state.
`make_upi_payment_link`	Build a UPI payment link (upi://pay) for an Indian UPI ID, with optional payee name, amount and note, plus the URL of a QR code image for it. Generate only; nothing is checked with a bank.
`find_constituency`	Find the assembly (MLA) and parliamentary (MP, Lok Sabha) constituency of a place in India, by pincode or by latitude and longitude.
`check_dns`	Look up a domain's DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, CNAME, CAA, SOA, SRV, or PTR for an IP) at Cloudflare, Google, Quad9 and OpenDNS at once, and say whether they agree.
`check_email_address`	Check an email address without contacting its mail server: valid form, disposable (throwaway) domain, free provider, role account, and whether the domain has mail servers.
`make_fake_indian_data`	Generate made-up Indian test data for building apps: people (name, gender, birth date, email, phone, PAN, address) or companies (name, PAN, GSTIN with a valid check character, address) or addresses, at real pincodes. Never real people.
`lookup_hsn_code`	Look up an Indian HSN code (goods) or SAC code (services) used in GST invoices: its description, the chapter and heading above it, and the codes below it. No GST rates.
`search_hsn_codes`	Find Indian HSN (goods) or SAC (services) codes by words of their description, such as 'green tea' or 'construction'.
`lookup_ip_address`	Find the country, region (Indian state), city and network operator of a public IPv4 or IPv6 address.
`traceroute_from_india`	Trace the network path from a server in India to a host, MTR style: every hop with its address, name, network (AS) and country, packet loss and round-trip times. Shows how Indian networks reach a site.
`get_mutual_fund_nav`	Get the latest NAV of an Indian mutual fund scheme by AMFI scheme code or ISIN, with its fund house, category, plan and option.
`search_mutual_funds`	Search Indian mutual fund schemes by name words, fund house or category, filtered by direct/regular plan and growth/IDCW option, with their latest NAVs.
`get_panchang`	Hindu almanac (panchang) for a date and place: tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana with their end times, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, Rahu kalam, Yamagandam, Gulika kalam, Abhijit muhurta, Tamil month and day, lunar month, Shaka and Vikram years.
`check_indian_phone_number`	Check an Indian phone number's form and type (mobile, toll-free, fixed line), format it, and name the operator and telecom circle its series was originally given to.
`get_hf_propagation`	Current space weather from NOAA (solar flux, sunspot number, K and A indices, X-ray class, NOAA R/S/G scales) and a rule of thumb good/fair/poor rating of HF amateur radio bands by day and night.
`test_regex`	Run a regular expression (JavaScript or RE2/Go syntax) against a text: every match with its groups and character offsets, an optional replacement, and a token by token explanation of the pattern.
`get_satellite_passes`	When the ISS, the Chinese space station or an amateur radio satellite passes over a place in the next days: rise, highest point and set times with compass directions and elevations, and when the pass can be seen with the eye.
`find_satellites`	List or search the tracked space stations and amateur radio satellites, with catalogue numbers, orbital periods and inclinations.
`where_is_satellite`	Where a tracked satellite such as the ISS is right now: the point on Earth below it, its altitude and speed, and whether it is in sunlight.
`lookup_railway_station`	Look up an Indian Railways station by its code (MAS, NDLS): name, state, railway zone and elevation.
`search_railway_stations`	Find Indian railway stations and their codes by name, state or railway zone.
`get_sun_and_moon`	Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, day length, civil, nautical and astronomical twilight, moonrise, moonset, moon phase, illumination, age and the next new, first quarter, full and last quarter moons, for a date at an Indian pincode or any latitude and longitude.
`count_tokens`	Count the tokens a text uses for an OpenAI model or encoding (o200k_base for GPT-4o and later, cl100k_base for GPT-4).
`redact_indian_identifiers`	Mask Aadhaar, PAN, GSTIN, card, phone, email, UPI ID, vehicle, voter ID, passport and IP numbers in a text, checking check digits where they exist.
`detect_language`	Detect the language and script of a text, including Indian languages.
`get_thirukkural`	Get a Thirukkural couplet by number (1-1330) in Tamil, with transliteration, English translations by G.U. Pope and by Drew and Lazarus, and its chapter.
`search_thirukkural`	Search the Thirukkural in Tamil or English, or list a chapter (1-133) or a paal (1 virtue, 2 wealth, 3 love).
`transliterate_indian_text`	Rewrite text from one Indian script in another (Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam), or in Roman letters (ISO 15919, IAST, plain ASCII), or from ISO 15919 / IAST into a script. Spelling only, not translation.
`check_working_day`	Check whether a date is a working day in India for banks in a state, NSE trading, NSE settlement or central government offices; get the previous and next working days, or the date N working days away (T+1 settlement: calendar settlement, add 1).
`count_working_days`	Count Indian working days between two dates (both included) for a calendar, and list each day off with its reason.
`indian_market_status`	Is the Indian stock market (NSE equities) open now or at a given moment: session, reason if closed, and when it next opens.
`find_post_offices_near`	Find Indian post offices and their pincodes near a latitude and longitude, nearest first.

For other programs

OpenAPI 3.1 description for code generators and API clients
llms.txt and llms-full.txt: the documentation for language models
MCP server card, AI catalog, API catalog and skills index for automatic discovery
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