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Search programming questions and answers from Stack Overflow and other SE sites

4 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

search_questions

Search for questions on StackOverflow or any StackExchange site. Returns title, body, score, answer count, tags, and link.

No parameters required.

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get_answers

Get answers for a specific StackExchange question by ID. Returns answer body, score, and whether it is accepted.

No parameters required.

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stack_get_user

Look up a StackExchange user by numeric ID. Returns display name, reputation, badges (gold/silver/bronze counts), location, website, account age, last access, and per-site activity counts (questions/a

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list_questions_by_tag

Browse questions by TAG, sorted by votes or recency — answers "top questions tagged <tag>", "trending <tag> questions this week/month", "most-voted <tag> questions". Returns title, score, answer count

No parameters required.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/stackexchange/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/stackexchange/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_questions","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search_questions", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("search programming questions and answers from stack overflow and other se sites");