U301

U301 MCP Server: Let AI Create Smart Short Links for You

With the U301 MCP Server, any AI-powered tool that supports the MCP Server protocol can now generate short links using U301 — tools like:

  • Cursor
  • Windsurf
  • Cline ...

Why Use It?

Let’s say you're writing markdown documentation and want to replace long URLs with clean, meaningful short links — ideally on your own domain. For example:

From this: https://docs.stripe.com/webhooks#verify-official-libraries

To something like: u301.co/verify-webhooks or even: stri.pe/verify-webhooks

You might think: "That sounds simple enough — why involve AI?"

Well, imagine you’re maintaining thousands of documents with thousands of links. Manually generating semantic, unique slugs for each one is tedious, error-prone, and time-consuming.

With U301 MCP Server, you configure it once — and let the AI handle the rest.

How to Set It Up

  1. Go to u301.com and generate an API Key from your dashboard.
  2. In your MCP-compatible tool, add the following config:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "u301-url-shortener": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@u301/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "U301_API_KEY": "<U301-API-Key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Custom Domain Support

Want to use your own domain (e.g., stri.pe)? Just add the domain field to the environment variables:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "u301-url-shortener": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@u301/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "U301_API_KEY": "<U301-API-Key>",
        "domain": "stri.pe"
      }
    }
  }
}

How to Use It

Once everything is set up, just tell the AI:

Replace the long URLs in the documents with meaningful and memorable short URLs.

Then sit back and let the magic happen. ✨

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