SmartScout is now available as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector for Anthropic's Claude. Connect once, and you can ask Claude about any Amazon product, brand, seller, subcategory, or keyword — and get back live data from SmartScout's coverage of the Amazon marketplace.

No more switching tabs between Claude and the SmartScout dashboard. No more copy-pasting ASINs into search boxes. If you can describe the question, Claude can fetch the answer.

What you can do

The SmartScout MCP server exposes 20 read-only tools across products, brands, sellers, subcategories, search terms, and ad-spy data. A few examples of what that unlocks:

• Keyword analysis. "Run a keyword analysis on Creatine" — Claude returns estimated search volume, CPC, competing brand count, and the sponsored-ad landscape for the term.
• Full brand reports. "Give me a full brand report on Sol Brush" — Claude fans out in a single call to pull the brand's revenue history, sales breakdown by subcategory, top 10 products, and competitive set.
• Competitive landscape. "What does the competitive landscape look like for pickleball paddles?" — Claude identifies the subcategory, returns total monthly revenue, leading brands by share, the Amazon-vs-third-party revenue split, and average price points.
• Organic search rankings. "Show me the organic rankings for this protein powder ASIN" — Claude returns every keyword the product ranks for, its rank position, and the search volume behind each term.
• Category trend discovery. "Show me the fastest-growing Amazon categories" or "Which categories have a summer slowdown?" — Claude scans across thousands of subcategories and surfaces growth leaders and seasonality patterns.

These are real questions our customers ask every day. The connector makes them one prompt away.

Getting started

You'll need:

1. An active SmartScout account with API access.
2. Your SmartScout API key (find it in your account settings).
3. Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, or Claude Code.

Connecting in Claude Desktop

1. Open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
2. Paste this URL: https://smartscout-mcp.salmonsmoke-00af1ff9.eastus.azurecontainerapps.io/
3. Leave Client ID and Client Secret blank — the server handles registration automatically.
4. Click Save. A browser window opens to the SmartScout authorization page.
5. Paste your SmartScout API key and click Authorize.

That's it. The 20 SmartScout tools appear in the tools tray of any new chat, and Claude can call them on your behalf.

How authentication works

When you authorize the connector, the SmartScout API key you submit is validated against the SmartScout API. After validation, the server issues an opaque access token (prefixed ss_mcp_) that Claude Desktop stores. Your real SmartScout API key never leaves the authorization page after that — every subsequent request from Claude uses the opaque token, which the server resolves to your key server-side before calling SmartScout.

You can revoke access at any time by removing the connector in Claude Desktop. Restarting the SmartScout MCP server (e.g., during a deployment) invalidates all opaque tokens, and Claude Desktop automatically prompts users to re-authorize on the next request — there's no manual intervention needed.

For developers and scripted use, the server also accepts a raw SmartScout API key as a bearer token directly, bypassing the OAuth flow. This is useful for curl-based testing or for integrating the MCP server with non-Claude clients.

Available tools

The 20 tools fall into seven categories:

Search

• search_products — Search Amazon products with filters on revenue, sales rank, reviews, seller counts, price, and more.
• search_brands — Search Amazon brands with revenue and product-count filters.
• search_sellers — Search Amazon sellers with sales, growth, and FBA-percentage filters.
• search_subcategories — Search Amazon subcategories with market-size and competitive-density filters.
• search_search_terms — Search Amazon keywords with volume, CPC, and competition filters.

History and time-series

• get_product_history — Buy-box price and sales-rank history for a product.
• get_brand_sales_history — Monthly revenue history for a brand in a subcategory.
• get_brand_sales_history_by_subcategories — Brand revenue broken down by subcategory over time.
• get_brand_top_products — Top-N products for a brand by revenue or units over time.
• get_search_term_history — Monthly search-volume history for a keyword.

Keyword and ad-spy

• get_product_organic_ranks — Organic search rankings for a product across all keywords it ranks for.
• get_relevant_products — Competitor products for an ASIN based on shared keyword overlap.
• get_relevant_search_terms — Top keywords driving traffic to a product.
• ad_spy_search — Sponsored placement data: which brands and products advertise on each keyword, plus estimated CPC.

Subcategory drill-down

• get_subcategory_brands — Brands competing in a subcategory with revenue share and seller metrics.

Compound profiles

These tools roll up multiple underlying calls into one request, ideal for "give me everything about X" questions:

• get_brand_profile — Brand summary, revenue history, subcategory breakdown, and top products in one call.
• get_product_profile — Product details, price and rank history, top keywords, and organic rankings in one call.
• get_seller_profile — Seller summary and the brands they carry in one call.
• get_subcategory_profile — Subcategory details and top competing brands in one call.

Diagnostics

• get_server_status — Verify the connector is reachable and your API key is valid.

Supported marketplaces

The connector covers 12 Amazon marketplaces: US, CA, MX, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, JP, AU, IN, and AE. You can override the marketplace on individual requests via the X-SmartScout-Marketplace header; the default is US.

Data handling

The SmartScout MCP server is read-only — it cannot modify your SmartScout account, create resources, or write any data. Every request requires your explicit authorization, and your queries are forwarded to the SmartScout API exactly as Claude composes them, with no rewriting or content collection by the server itself.

API requests count against your SmartScout account's rate limits and quotas the same as any other call to the SmartScout API. Standard SmartScout privacy practices apply — see our Privacy Policy for details.

Questions and support

For help with the SmartScout MCP server, the SmartScout API, or your account, contact support@smartscout.com.

For technical issues or feature requests specific to the MCP connector, include "MCP" in your subject line so we can route your message to the right team.

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