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Readwise MCP server

Save and retrieve your highlights from Readwise — your reading notes, all in one place.

Readwise is not a separate install. One Activepieces MCP server exposes it alongside 760+ other apps, behind a single URL.

Tools
3
Works with
Any MCP client
Auth
API key
License
MIT, open source
Updated
September 2026

About the Readwise MCP server

Connect Readwise once in Activepieces and every action it ships becomes a tool your assistant can call, behind the same server URL as the rest of your apps. Your agent reaches Readwise and 760+ other apps over a single connection, on our cloud or a self-hosted install.

Tools

Readwise tools your AI can run

Once connected, your assistant can call any of these Readwise actions by asking in plain language.

  • Get Highlights

    Retrieve your Readwise highlights, optionally filtered by book or date.

    4 fields

  • Create Highlight

    Save a new highlight to Readwise.

    12 fields

  • Custom API Call

    Make a custom API call to a specific endpoint

    10 fields

Triggers

Readwise events your agent can watch

These start a run the moment something happens in Readwise, so work gets picked up on its own.

  • New Highlight

    Fires when a new highlight is saved to Readwise.

Give your assistant Readwise

Connect Readwise once and every tool above is callable from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client, behind the same server URL as 760+ other apps. Free to start.

Readwise MCP, answered.

No. That is the point of it. One Activepieces server exposes Readwise alongside every other piece you connect, so your client keeps a single connection.

Yes. Activepieces is open source and free to start, and the MCP server is included on every plan, from the free cloud tier to any self-hosted deployment.

Connect Readwise in Activepieces, enable the server under Settings → MCP Server, then paste your server URL into your client config. It authenticates over OAuth on first use.

It can call 3 tools, including Get Highlights, Create Highlight, Custom API Call, and chain them with steps in other apps inside the same run.

Connections use OAuth2 with limited scopes and are stored under 256-bit encryption, with no API to read them back, so an agent gets scoped access rather than your keys.