Autodesk Alias Python API - MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides AI assistants with searchable access to the Autodesk Alias Python API documentation.

⚠️ Disclaimer: This is an unofficial, community-built MCP server. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by Autodesk Inc.

Features

🔍 Search documentation - Find relevant API docs using natural language queries
📄 Get full page content - Retrieve complete documentation for any topic
📋 List available docs - Browse all 225+ API documentation pages

Quick Start

1. Clone and Install

git clone https://github.com/Roshan-RB/Autodesk_MCP.git
cd Autodesk_MCP

# Create virtual environment
python -m venv venv

# Activate (Windows)
venv\Scripts\activate

# Activate (macOS/Linux)
source venv/bin/activate

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Install Playwright browser (required for scraping)
playwright install chromium

2. Scrape Documentation (Required - One Time)

Before using the MCP server, you need to scrape the documentation from Autodesk's website:

python -m scraper.scraper

Note: This will open a browser window and scrape ~225 documentation pages. The process takes approximately 20-25 minutes. The scraped data is saved locally to data/docs/ and is not included in this repository.

3. Connect to Your AI Tool

Add the following to your MCP client configuration:

For Claude Desktop / Cursor / Other MCP Clients:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "autodesk-alias-docs": {
      "command": "/path/to/Autodesk_MCP/venv/Scripts/python.exe",
      "args": ["/path/to/Autodesk_MCP/run_server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Note: Replace /path/to/Autodesk_MCP with your actual installation path.

Available Tools

Once connected, your AI assistant can use these tools:

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | search_alias_docs(query) | Search documentation using keywords | | get_doc_by_title(title) | Get full content of a specific page | | list_available_docs() | List all available documentation pages |

Documentation Coverage

The scraper collects documentation for:

Class Reference - AlCurve, AlSurface, AlDagNode, AlUniverse, and 100+ more
Plugin Development - Momentary, Continuous, and Command History plugins
API Examples - Complete code examples with explanations
Implementation Guides - Compiling, linking, and setting up plugins

Project Structure

Autodesk_MCP/
├── run_server.py       # MCP server entry point
├── requirements.txt    # Python dependencies
├── server/             # MCP server implementation
│   └── mcp_server.py
├── scraper/            # Documentation scraper
│   ├── config.py       # Scraper configuration
│   └── scraper.py      # Main scraper logic
└── data/docs/          # Scraped documentation (generated locally)

Re-scraping Documentation

To update the documentation (e.g., for a newer Alias version):

# Delete existing docs
rm -rf data/docs/*

# Re-run scraper
python -m scraper.scraper

License

This project provides a tool to access Autodesk Alias documentation. The documentation content itself is © Autodesk Inc. Please refer to Autodesk's terms of use for documentation licensing.

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