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India API

by dharunashokkumarversion 1.1.35i★ –iRuns in the cloud
Registry nameio.github.dharunashokkumar/india-api

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Free Indian data and AI: pincode, IFSC, GSTIN, holidays, GST invoice, OCR, translation. No key.

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What you can do with it

We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.

  • Connection: Runs in the cloud
  • Transport: Streamable HTTP
  • Category: Accounting, finance & tax

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

You need

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Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Works in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile:

  1. Open Settings → Connectors
  2. Press Add custom connector
  3. Paste the address below and press Add
  4. If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker
SettingsConnectors1+ Add2https://…3
https://api.dharun.dev/mcp

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http india-api https://api.dharun.dev/mcp

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "india-api": {
      "url": "https://api.dharun.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "india-api": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.dharun.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

ChatGPT connects only to servers on the internet:

  1. Open ChatGPT on the web → Settings → Connectors (Apps)
  2. Press Create or Add (some plans need Developer mode under Advanced first)
  3. Paste the address below, give it a name and save
  4. If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker
SettingsConnectors1+ Create2https://…3
https://api.dharun.dev/mcp

Menu names can differ slightly by plan and over time.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Tool names and descriptions exactly as the server reported them on Nov 7, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.

  • get_company_logo

    Get the logo URLs (SVG and PNG) and details of a company listed on India's NSE or BSE. Accepts a ticker (TCS), exchange-qualified ticker (NSE:TCS), Yahoo symbol (TCS.NS), ISIN or the old ticker of a renamed company. listed is false for a delisted company.

  • search_companies

    Search Indian listed companies by ticker, earlier ticker, name, sector, industry, ISIN or index name (for example 'Nifty 50'). Returns details with logo URLs. Only companies listed today.

  • lookup_pincode

    Look up an Indian pincode: its district, state and every post office that uses it.

  • search_post_offices

    Find Indian post offices and their pincodes by the start of the office name, optionally within a state or district.

  • lookup_ifsc

    Look up an Indian bank branch by its IFSC: bank, branch, address, MICR and supported payment systems.

  • search_bank_branches

    Find branches of one Indian bank by state, city or text in the branch name or address. Needs the four-letter bank code; use search_banks to find it.

  • search_banks

    Find Indian banks and their four-letter codes by name.

  • lookup_rto

    Find which Regional Transport Office an Indian vehicle registration belongs to. Accepts a code (TN-28) or a full number plate (TN28AB1234).

  • list_holidays

    List Indian holidays for a year: bank holidays, central government holidays, and stock market trading and clearing holidays. Filter by type, state or month.

  • number_to_words

    Spell a number or rupee amount in words using the Indian system (lakh, crore), in English, Hindi or Tamil.

  • validate_identifier

    Check the format of an Indian GSTIN, PAN or IFSC. Format only: it does not confirm the identifier was issued.

  • lookup_airport

    Look up an airport by IATA code (MAA) or ICAO code (VOMM): name, city, state, country, coordinates and whether it has scheduled flights.

  • search_airports

    Search airports by name or city, worldwide (those with IATA codes) and every Indian airfield and heliport. Filter by country (ISO code) or Indian state.

  • make_upi_payment_link

    Build a UPI payment link (upi://pay) for an Indian UPI ID, with optional payee name, amount and note, plus the URL of a QR code image for it. Generate only; nothing is checked with a bank.

  • find_constituency

    Find the assembly (MLA) and parliamentary (MP, Lok Sabha) constituency of a place in India, by pincode or by latitude and longitude.

  • check_dns

    Look up a domain's DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, CNAME, CAA, SOA, SRV, or PTR for an IP) at Cloudflare, Google, Quad9 and OpenDNS at once, and say whether they agree.

  • check_email_address

    Check an email address without contacting its mail server: valid form, disposable (throwaway) domain, free provider, role account, and whether the domain has mail servers.

  • make_fake_indian_data

    Generate made-up Indian test data for building apps: people (name, gender, birth date, email, phone, PAN, address) or companies (name, PAN, GSTIN with a valid check character, address) or addresses, at real pincodes. Never real people.

  • lookup_hsn_code

    Look up an Indian HSN code (goods) or SAC code (services) used in GST invoices: its description, the chapter and heading above it, and the codes below it. No GST rates.

  • search_hsn_codes

    Find Indian HSN (goods) or SAC (services) codes by words of their description, such as 'green tea' or 'construction'.

  • domain_icon

    Get the icon of any website as a square PNG, from its favicon, Apple touch icon or web app manifest, redrawn at the size asked. A site without a usable icon gets an initials tile.

  • lookup_ip_address

    Find the country, region (Indian state), city and network operator of a public IPv4 or IPv6 address.

  • check_ipv6

    Check whether a domain is ready for IPv6, from DNS: IPv6 (AAAA) addresses for the site and www, for each nameserver and each mail server, with a plain list of what is missing. No connection is made over IPv6.

  • translate_text

    Translate text between English and 22 Indian languages (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese, Urdu and more) with AI4Bharat's IndicTrans2. Between two Indian languages it goes through English. Up to 2,000 characters.

  • transliterate_roman_typing

    Turn Indian-language words typed in Roman letters (vanakkam, namaste, kaise ho) into their own script, as phone keyboards do, with several guesses per word. Uses AI4Bharat's IndicXlit. Up to 60 words.

  • moderate_text

    Score a comment or message for abuse with three classifiers: general multilingual, Hinglish (Hindi in Roman letters, by kind: profanity, harassment, hate speech, caste, communal, regional, misogyny) and Tanglish (Tamil in Roman letters). Scores 0 to 1; a model's guess, not a deci

  • transcribe_audio

    Speech to text with Whisper: the text of a recording (MP3, WAV, Ogg, M4A, WebM or video), with timed segments; about a hundred languages, Indian ones included. task=translate writes it in English. The first five minutes are heard.

  • rerank_documents

    Order documents by how well each answers a query, with the multilingual bge-reranker-v2-m3 cross-encoder (Indian languages and English). Returns scores from 0 to 1, best first.

  • make_gst_invoice

    Make an Indian GST tax invoice as a PDF from seller, buyer and items. Works out each line's taxable value, CGST and SGST (or UTGST) within a state or IGST across states, the HSN-wise summary, rounding and the amount in words. format=json returns the worked-out amounts only.

  • compile_typst

    Compile a Typst document to PDF (or one page as PNG). Noto fonts for Latin and nine Indian scripts are available; packages and files are not.

  • text_to_speech

    Speak text aloud in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam or English with Piper voices; returns MP3 audio. Write the text in its own script. Some Hindi voices are for non-commercial use only.

  • read_text_in_image

    OCR: read the text in a photo, scan or scanned PDF, in English and Indian languages (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, Marathi).

  • read_barcodes

    Find and read every QR code and barcode (Data Matrix, Aztec, EAN, UPC, Code 128, Code 39, ITF, Codabar) in a picture.

  • make_qr_code

    Make a QR code image (PNG) for any text or link.

  • make_barcode

    Make a barcode image (PNG): Code 128, Code 39, Code 93, EAN-13, EAN-8, ITF, Codabar, Data Matrix, PDF417 or Aztec.

  • make_code_image

    Draw a code snippet as a PNG picture of an editor window with syntax colouring, for slides, posts and READMEs. Up to 150 lines of 140 characters.

  • make_social_preview_image

    Make a 1200 by 630 link preview (Open Graph) image as PNG from a title, with an optional subtitle, site name and tag. Latin and nine Indian scripts are set correctly. The same arguments always give the same picture.

  • chunk_text

    Split a long document (plain text or Markdown) into readable chunks for retrieval (RAG): at headings, paragraphs, sentences and words in that order; Markdown chunks keep their heading path. Each chunk carries its character offsets.

  • embed_texts

    Turn texts into 384-number vectors with multilingual-e5-small (Indian languages and English), scaled to length 1 so a dot product is the cosine similarity. For storing in a vector database or comparing meaning; use rerank_documents to order a few passages for a question instead.

  • convert_tamil_legacy_text

    Convert Tamil text in an old 8-bit encoding (TSCII), which shows as accented Latin letters such as ¾Á¢ú without its font, to Unicode Tamil, or Unicode back to it.

  • get_indian_states

    List India's 28 states and 8 union territories, or get one, with its two-letter code, GST state code and vehicle registration prefixes.

  • convert_image

    Resize a picture or convert it (JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, TIFF out; HEIC and AVIF read too). Turned upright, all metadata such as the GPS position removed.

  • get_image_info

    Format, size, colour space, orientation and camera of a picture, and whether it carries EXIF data or a GPS position.

  • remove_image_background

    Cut the subject out of a picture (a product, a person, an animal) and return it as a PNG with a transparent background, with the IS-Net model.

  • hash_image

    Perceptual fingerprints of a picture (average, difference and DCT hashes) that stay nearly the same after resizing or recompression, for finding duplicates.

  • compare_images

    Compare two pictures by how they look: the bits by which their perceptual hashes differ, a score from 0 to 1, and whether they look like the same picture.

  • read_pdf_text

    Read the text of a PDF, page by page. needs_ocr is true when the pages are scanned pictures; send those to read_text_in_image.

  • get_pdf_info

    Page count, PDF version, title, author, dates and page sizes of a PDF, and whether it has forms, signatures or attachments.

  • render_pdf_page

    Draw one page of a PDF as a picture, for a preview.

  • select_pdf_pages

    Make a new PDF from some pages of one, in the order named: to pick, reorder or split pages.

  • rotate_pdf_pages

    Turn the pages of a PDF clockwise by a multiple of 90 degrees.

  • compress_pdf

    Make a PDF smaller by removing duplicate fonts and images and packing its structure. Scanned PDFs shrink little.

  • merge_pdfs

    Join PDFs into one, in the order given.

  • remove_audio_noise

    Lower background noise (fans, traffic, hum) in a recording with DeepFilterNet; returns MP3. The first five minutes are cleaned.

  • traceroute_from_india

    Trace the network path from a server in India to a host, MTR style: every hop with its address, name, network (AS) and country, packet loss and round-trip times. Shows how Indian networks reach a site.

  • get_mutual_fund_nav

    Get the latest NAV of an Indian mutual fund scheme by AMFI scheme code or ISIN, with its fund house, category, plan and option.

  • search_mutual_funds

    Search Indian mutual fund schemes by name words, fund house or category, filtered by direct/regular plan and growth/IDCW option, with their latest NAVs.

  • get_panchang

    Hindu almanac (panchang) for a date and place: tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana with their end times, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, Rahu kalam, Yamagandam, Gulika kalam, Abhijit muhurta, Tamil month and day, lunar month, Shaka and Vikram years.

  • check_indian_phone_number

    Check an Indian phone number's form and type (mobile, toll-free, fixed line), format it, and name the operator and telecom circle its series was originally given to.

  • probe_url_from_india

    Fetch a URL from a server in India and time it: DNS, connect, TLS, time to first byte and download, the HTTP status and version, every redirect, the response headers (cookie values hidden), the body's size and hash (never the body), and which CDN and edge city answered. Shows how

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 9, 2026

  • ✓ Pass

    Maker matches the repo

    The registry name was verified with the GitHub account dharunashokkumar, which owns the repo

  • … Not checked yet

    Still maintained

    We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

  • … Not checked yet

    Has a licence

    We have not read this repo from GitHub yet

  • ✓ Pass

    Endpoint responds

    Responded in 704 ms (HTTP 200)

  • – Not applicable

    Sign-in with OAuth

    No sign-in needed

  • ✓ Pass

    No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

    Read 60 tool descriptions and found no hidden instructions to the AI

Compared with others in Accounting, finance & taxi

  • More stars than 0% of the other 2960 servers in this category
  • Published to the registry more recently than 67% of the other 2960 servers in this category
  • Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 2960 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

Common questions

Is India API safe?

It passed 3 of 3 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (1.1.35) reached the registry 15 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

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India API

Free, open source APIs for Indian data. Pincodes, IFSC and bank branches, GSTIN and PAN checks, bank and market holidays, RTO codes, company logos, UPI QR codes, numbers in lakh and crore, GST invoices as PDF, OCR in Indian languages, PDF and image tools, translation, speech to text and text to speech, and more: 44 APIs behind one consistent JSON shape. No API key, no sign-up, open CORS, and an MCP server so AI assistants can use it too.

Documentation: [api.dharun.dev](https://api.dharun.dev) · API reference · Guides · Use with AI · OpenAPI · llms.txt

curl https://api.dharun.dev/v1/pincode/637001
{

"data": { "pincode": "637001", "district": "Namakkal", "stateCode": "TN", "state": "Tamil Nadu", "offices": [ ... ] }, "meta": { "source": { "name": "...", "licence": "...", "attribution": "..." } } }

APIs

Each name links to its page, with every parameter, a real response and code in curl, JavaScript and Python.

APIExampleWhat you get
Company logos/v1/logos/TCS, /v1/companies/RELIANCESVG or PNG logo of an NSE or BSE listed company, REITs and InvITs included; sector, ISIN, market cap, indexes; old tickers still work
Pincodes/v1/pincode/637001, /v1/pincode/near?lat=&lng=Post offices, district, state, coordinates; pincodes near a point
IFSC and banks/v1/ifsc/SBIN0000001, /v1/banks?q=graminBank, branch, address, MICR, payment systems; banks and their codes by name
RTO codes/v1/rto/TN-28Transport office for a vehicle registration
Holidays/v1/holidays/2026?type=marketBank, central government and stock market holidays
Working days/v1/working-days/2026-01-16?calendar=bank&state=TNWorking day or not, the next one, N working days ahead, T+1 settlement dates; whether NSE is open
HSN and SAC/v1/hsn/0902, /v1/hsn?q=teaTariff codes with descriptions and their chapter
Mutual funds/v1/mutual-funds/122639Latest NAV of a scheme, search by name or fund house
Railway stations/v1/stations/MASStation name, zone, state
Airports/v1/airports/MAAIATA and ICAO codes, city, coordinates
Phone numbers/v1/phone/9500112345Valid or not, mobile or landline, original operator and circle
Constituencies/v1/constituency?pincode=637001Assembly and parliamentary constituency for a place
Panchang/v1/panchang/2026-01-14?pincode=600001Tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana, sunrise, Rahu kalam, Tamil month
Sun and moon/v1/sun-moon/today?pincode=600001Sunrise, sunset, twilight, moonrise, moon phase and illumination
Satellite passes/v1/sat-pass?sat=ISS&pincode=600001When the ISS or an amateur radio satellite passes over, and whether it can be seen
HF propagation/v1/propagationSolar flux, K and A index, NOAA scales, and a day and night rating per band
Thirukkural/v1/thirukkural/1Couplet, transliteration, two English translations; search and random
Transliteration/v1/transliterate?to=tamil&text=..., /v1/transliterate/suggest?lang=ta&text=vanakkamBetween nine Indian scripts, ISO 15919, IAST and ASCII; Roman typing to 21 Indian scripts with a model
Translation/v1/translate?from=en&to=ta&text=...Between English and 22 Indian languages with IndicTrans2
Embeddings and reranking/v1/embed?text=..., POST /v1/rerankMultilingual vectors for semantic search, and a reranker to order results
Tamil legacy encodings/v1/tamil-font/convert?from=tscii&text=...TSCII text to Unicode and back
IP lookup/v1/ip/8.8.8.8, /v1/ipCountry, city and network of an address, or of the caller
Email check/v1/email/someone@example.comSyntax, disposable domain, whether the domain takes mail
DNS check/v1/dns/example.com?type=MXRecords as several public resolvers see them
Traceroute from India/v1/mtr/example.comMTR-style path from a server in India: network, loss and latency per hop
Whois/v1/whois/example.co.in, /v1/whois/AS55836Registrar, dates, status and nameservers of a domain; holder and abuse contact of an IP network or AS number, through RDAP
TLS check/v1/tls/example.comCertificate validity, chain, days left, TLS versions and weak ciphers, as a list of problems
IPv6 check/v1/ipv6/example.comIPv6 addresses for the site, its nameservers and mail servers
HTTP probe from India/v1/probe?url=https://example.comDNS, connect, TLS and first-byte times from India, redirects, headers and the CDN edge city
Website icons/v1/icon/github.com?size=64Any site's icon as a square PNG, or an initials tile
QR, UPI QR and barcodes/v1/qr?text=hello, /v1/upi-qr?pa=shop@okaxis&am=250, POST /v1/barcode/readQR codes, UPI payment QR codes and links, barcodes; reading codes from a photo
GST invoicePOST /v1/invoiceA GST tax invoice PDF from JSON: CGST and SGST or IGST, HSN summary, amount in words, UPI QR
OCRPOST /v1/ocr?lang=eng+tamText from photos, scans and scanned PDFs in English and ten Indian languages
Image toolsPOST /v1/image/convert?format=webp&width=800Resize and convert (WebP, AVIF, HEIC in), remove backgrounds, perceptual hashes
PDF toolsPOST /v1/pdf/merge, /pages, /rotate, /compress, /text, /renderMerge, split, rotate, compress, read text, draw pages
Typst to PDF/v1/typst?text=...Typst documents to PDF or PNG, with Indian scripts
SpeechPOST /v1/stt, /v1/tts?text=...&voice=hi, POST /v1/audio/denoiseSpeech to text and subtitles with Whisper; text to speech in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and English; noise removal
Generated images/v1/og-image?title=HelloLink preview cards and code images, in ten scripts
Text tools/v1/text/chunk, /redact, /moderate, /tokens, /languageChunking for retrieval, PII and name redaction, moderation with Hinglish and Tanglish, token counts, language detection
Regex tester/v1/regex?pattern=...&text=...Every match with its groups, replacement, the pattern explained
Fake Indian data/v1/fake/companies?count=5Test people and companies with PAN and GSTIN that pass format checks
Number to words/v1/words/1,25,000?lang=taLakh and crore spelling in English, Hindi, Tamil
Format checks/v1/validate/gstin/27AAPFU0939F1ZVGSTIN, PAN and IFSC structure and check characters
States/v1/states/TNState codes, GST codes, vehicle prefixes

One shape everywhere

  • Every JSON response is { "data": ..., "meta": { ... } }. data is an object, or an array for list endpoints, which add meta.total, meta.limit and meta.offset.
  • meta.source names the dataset, its version, its licence and the credit it asks for.
  • Errors are { "error": { "code", "message" } } with a matching HTTP status.
  • Each client has an allowance of 600 requests a minute. A lookup costs 1; a request that takes real CPU work (image rendering, astronomy, live DNS) costs 10, a file upload 15, and a neural network job (speech, speech to text, translation, background removal, denoise) 30. Embeddings, reranking and moderation count as CPU work.
  • Text endpoints take ?text=, or a POST body as text/plain or JSON {"text": "..."}.
  • Image endpoints return the image itself, ready for an tag; PDF and audio endpoints return the file.
  • File endpoints take a POST of the file as the body, or as multipart/form-data, up to 10 MB. Files are deleted when the answer is sent; nothing is kept.

Use it from AI assistants

One MCP server, one Agent Skill and one Claude Code plugin cover every API.

# Claude Code: the MCP server

claude mcp add --transport http india-api https://api.dharun.dev/mcp

Claude Code: the plugin (skill and MCP server together)

/plugin marketplace add dharunashokkumar/api.dharun.dev /plugin install india-api@dharun-dev

Any agent that reads Agent Skills (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI)

npx skills add dharunashokkumar/api.dharun.dev

  • MCP server: https://api.dharun.dev/mcp, Streamable HTTP, stateless, no authentication. Each tool returns exactly what the matching REST endpoint returns. Setup for Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini CLI and Codex: api.dharun.dev/ai. In the MCP Registry as io.github.dharunashokkumar/india-api.
  • Agent Skill: skills/india-api.
  • Claude Code plugin: plugins/india-api, with the marketplace in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.
  • For crawlers and agents: /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, every page as Markdown (add .md or send Accept: text/markdown), /openapi.json, an MCP server card, an AI catalog and an API catalog under /.well-known/.

The skill, the plugin and server.json are generated from the catalog in internal/api/catalog.go; a test fails when the committed copies are out of date.

Licence

  • Calling the API puts no licence on your app.
  • The code is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0-only). If you run a modified copy as a service for others, you must offer them your changes.
  • **Code examples, the guides' code, the Agent Skill and the C

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