myfitnesspal-mcp

Connect MyFitnessPal to Claude or any MCP client. Log meals by talking, search the food database with macros, track trends, and export your nutrition history, all against your real MyFitnessPal diary.

Published on PyPI as mfp-mcp.

Unofficial. MyFitnessPal has no public API; this reverse-engineers the web app's own endpoints. It can break whenever MFP changes their site. Use at your own risk, with your own account.

Why this one?

MyFitnessPal moved behind Cloudflare + NextAuth, which broke the username/password login that most existing integrations rely on. This server:

• Authenticates with your browser session cookie over a real Chrome TLS fingerprint (curl_cffi), which passes Cloudflare
• Auto-refreshes the session (optional): a headless browser profile rotates the token when it expires, and failed calls retry automatically
• Writes, not just reads: log, modify, and delete real diary entries
• Search-then-log: get candidates with macros, then log the exact item

Quickstart

1. Connect your account (one-time; prompts you to paste a cookie — see Authentication):

   uvx mfp-mcp auth
   

2. Add the server to your client.

   Claude Code

   claude mcp add myfitnesspal -- uvx mfp-mcp
   

   Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "myfitnesspal": {
         "command": "uvx",
         "args": ["mfp-mcp"]
       }
     }
   }
   

3. Talk to it: "log a banana as a snack", "what did I eat yesterday?", "chart my weight this month".

Requires uv. Any MCP client that speaks stdio or streamable HTTP works, not just Claude.

Authentication

This server signs in with your browser's MyFitnessPal session cookie:

1. Log in at myfitnesspal.com
2. Open DevTools (F12) → Application (Chrome) or Storage (Firefox) → Cookies → https://www.myfitnesspal.com
3. Copy the value of __Secure-next-auth.session-token
4. Paste it into the mfp-mcp auth prompt

Sessions last around 30 days. When one expires, either re-run auth or enable auto-refresh so you never have to. mfp-mcp auth --check reports whether the saved session still works and whether auto-refresh is set up, without prompting or changing anything.

Auto-refresh (recommended)

With the autorefresh extra, auth also seeds a persistent headless browser profile. When MyFitnessPal rejects the session mid-call, the server tells your client it is retrying, boots the profile headlessly, lets MyFitnessPal rotate the session token, saves the fresh cookie, and retries the call.

uvx --from 'mfp-mcp[autorefresh]' playwright install chromium
uvx --from 'mfp-mcp[autorefresh]' mfp-mcp auth

Then use the same --from 'mfp-mcp[autorefresh]' form in your client config (e.g. uvx --from 'mfp-mcp[autorefresh]' mfp-mcp).

Tools

Tool	What it does
fitness_get_day	Nutrition totals, diary entries, the MFP daily note, and feel note for a day
fitness_search_food	Candidate matches with brand, calories, macros, serving, and ids
fitness_draft_food	Numbered options with every serving size, filtered/ranked by optional calorie and macro targets
fitness_log_food	Log a draft option (and serving), a remembered food, or exact ids to the real diary
fitness_list_food_pins	Remembered query → food/serving choices (local)
fitness_clear_food_pin	Forget one remembered choice, or all of them
fitness_delete_food	Remove a diary entry by name match
fitness_modify_food	Replace an entry (or change its quantity), choosing the replacement like fitness_log_food
fitness_log_weight	Log a weight measurement (updates the same day on re-log)
fitness_log_water	Add water (cups, fl oz, mL, L) or set the day's total with replace
fitness_get_exercise	Read the exercise diary (cardio + strength)
fitness_get_exercise_entries	List cardio and strength entries with each section's columns
fitness_delete_exercise	Remove an exercise entry by name match (all_matches for multi-row sync cleanup)
fitness_get_note	Read the MyFitnessPal daily diary note (the "Notes" box) for a day
fitness_log_note	Write that daily note to MFP (replace, or append a new line)
fitness_log_feel	Save a subjective "how I feel" note (stored locally, never sent to MFP)
fitness_get_trends	One metric over a date range: weight, calories_in, protein, carbs, fat
fitness_bulk_export	Whole date range in one call, for analysis

Logging flow

Food logging is draft-then-confirm, so what lands in your diary never depends on MyFitnessPal's search order:

1. fitness_draft_food("greek yogurt", min_protein=15, max_calories=150) returns numbered options. Each lists every serving size with calories and macros for the whole entry (serving × quantity) plus a suggested serving; options that meet the targets come first, near misses follow. Call it again with different targets to refine.
2. fitness_log_food(draft_id=..., option=2, serving=1) logs exactly that food and serving, and remembers the choice for that query.
3. Next time, fitness_log_food(query="greek yogurt") logs the remembered food and serving without searching.

A bare fitness_log_food(query=...) with nothing remembered logs only when exactly one result matches the name exactly; otherwise it logs nothing and returns a draft to choose from. Remembered choices live in the local cache (fitness_list_food_pins, fitness_clear_food_pin). Drafts expire after 24 hours.

fitness_modify_food picks the replacement the same way, before deleting anything: a remembered food or a single exact-name match is used directly; otherwise the entry is left alone and a draft comes back — call fitness_modify_food again with the same query plus draft_id and option.

fitness_log_food, fitness_delete_food, and fitness_modify_food all take a meal argument the same way: breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks, or the literal name of any meal section currently on your diary — including a renamed default meal or one of the up to two extra meals MyFitnessPal lets you add in Diary Settings. Matching is case-insensitive against your account's current meal labels. If you renamed a default meal, the keywords still work: breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks fall back to your first through fourth meal, unless that slot now carries a different default name (e.g. lunch won't land in a second meal you renamed to "Dinner"). Any other unrecognized meal raises an error instead of silently logging into the wrong section.

Day summaries and trends read from a local SQLite cache that gap-fills from MyFitnessPal (first call on a fresh install fetches up to 30 days, one request per day).

Water logging reads the day's current total from /food/water, adds the requested quantity, and posts the new total back to the same endpoint. Pass replace=True to set the day's total outright (e.g. to fix a mislogged amount); every call returns previous_ml, so a mistake can be reverted by passing it back as amount with unit="ml" and replace=True. The separate /stats request with a water_logged event is analytics telemetry; it does not persist the water total.

Remote / HTTP mode

The default transport is stdio. For network clients:

mfp-mcp --http --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8484

This serves streamable HTTP at /mcp. There is no built-in authentication — never expose it to the internet. Bind to localhost and front it with something that authenticates for you: a VPN/tailnet (e.g. tailscale serve), an authenticating reverse proxy, or an OAuth-aware MCP gateway.

Configuration

Variable	Purpose	Default
MFP_COOKIE	Session cookie (full header or bare token); overrides the saved file	–
MFP_USERNAME	Your MFP username (not email); only needed if profile lookup fails	auto-detected
MFP_IMPERSONATE	curl_cffi browser fingerprint (try chrome124 on 403s)	chrome
MFP_SYNC_DAYS	Gap-fill lookback window in days	30
MFP_MCP_DATA_DIR	Where the SQLite cache + browser profile live	platform data dir

Troubleshooting

• 403 / Cloudflare blocked: try MFP_IMPERSONATE=chrome124 (or another curl_cffi target). Datacenter IPs get challenged far more than residential ones.
• "Session expired": confirm with mfp-mcp auth --check, then re-run mfp-mcp auth, or set up auto-refresh.
• "couldn't read your MyFitnessPal profile": MFP's profile endpoint 500s for some accounts. Set MFP_USERNAME to your username (not your email).
• curl_cffi install issues: prebuilt wheels cover Linux/macOS/Windows; musl (Alpine) builds from source.

How it works

• python-myfitnesspal parses the diary, measurements, and exercise pages — run over a curl_cffi session that impersonates Chrome's TLS fingerprint so Cloudflare lets it through with just the NextAuth session cookie.
• Writes replicate the web app's own XHR calls: the legacy food-search page supplies the food_id/weight_id that /food/add accepts, deletes go through /food/remove, water reads/writes via /food/water, and the daily note reads/writes via /food/note — each with the page CSRF token.
• Day summaries, trends, and exports read a local SQLite cache that gap-fills missing days. The MyFitnessPal daily note syncs both ways; feel notes are local-only.

Development

git clone https://github.com/Mason-Levyy/myfitnesspal-mcp
cd myfitnesspal-mcp
uv sync --extra autorefresh
uv run pytest

Tests run against synthetic MyFitnessPal HTML/JSON fixtures — no account needed. Lint and formatting are enforced with ruff (uv run ruff check ., uv run ruff format .).

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome, especially endpoint captures when MyFitnessPal changes something. See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, style, and the PR checklist, and SECURITY.md for how to report vulnerabilities privately. Release history is in CHANGELOG.md.

License

MIT