Gastat MCP Server

@pipeworx/gastat

Saudi Arabia's official statistics — GASTAT (General Authority for Statistics) population, employment/unemployment, GDP, consumer prices and trade indicators, each carrying both Arabic and English titles under one indicator id.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1865+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

• gastat_headline() — quick snapshot of GASTAT's own homepage indicators (population, GDP, unemployment rate, growth rate, per-capita income).
• gastat_search(term, limit?) — find indicators by keyword in English or Arabic across ~2,600 indicators; returns indicator ids + bilingual titles.
• gastat_series(indicator_id, recent?) — full time series for an indicator id (from gastat_search / gastat_headline) — multiple periods for comparison over time, not just a latest-value lookup.

Auth

Keyless. Every endpoint here is served to anonymous visitors with no login, token, or registration — verified live.

Data sources

• https://database.stats.gov.sa/gastatapi/portal/api/v1/indicators/cardsinfo — headline indicators (population, GDP, unemployment, etc.).
• https://database.stats.gov.sa/gastatapi/portal/api/v1/indicators/public — the full indicator catalog (~2,600 REP nodes), ~4.5MB, no server-side filtering. This is the same endpoint GASTAT's own Angular app (database.stats.gov.sa) fetches and searches client-side; there is no documented developer portal, so this was found by reading the app's own JS bundle rather than any published API docs. gastat_search and gastat_series both fetch it fresh per call (no cross-request cache available without a binding) — expect a few seconds of latency, that's GASTAT's shape, not ours.
• https://database.stats.gov.sa/gastatapi/portal/api/v1/indicators/getDataForChart?api=<token> — the actual observation data for one indicator, where <token> is the opaque api_url field carried on that indicator's catalog entry (stable across repeated fetches in testing — not session-bound).

Trap: most catalog entries carry a bare title + api_url token that resolves cleanly with no extra parameters. A meaningful minority — anything broken out by region, nationality, sector, or commodity in its title — needs dimension filters this endpoint doesn't expose through a plain GET, and comes back either an HTTP 400 or a row of all-null values. gastat_series detects both cases and returns a clear error/message rather than surfacing the raw failure, and gastat_search ranks indicators without a breakdown hint in their title first, since those are the ones that resolve.

Bilingual trap: GASTAT indexes everything by Arabic AND English title under one indicator id — never two ids for the same series. Every tool here preserves both title_en and title_ar on the same record rather than treating the Arabic filing as a separate entity.

Query-string parameters on indicators/public (e.g. ?term=) are rejected by GASTAT's own WAF — confirmed live. There is no server-side search; the whole catalog must be fetched and filtered client-side, which is what gastat_search does.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gastat": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gastat/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gastat/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1865+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/gastat_headline \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/gastat_headline. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Run it from npm

@pipeworx/mcp-gastat is a local stdio bridge to the Pipeworx gateway: your MCP client starts it with npx, and it forwards every call to the same https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gastat/mcp endpoint shown above. It needs network access; there is no offline mode.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gastat": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-gastat"]
    }
  }
}

Without a key it calls anonymously, capped at 50 calls a day. A free account raises that to 200 a day: get a key at https://pipeworx.io/signup and add "env": { "PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<your key>" } to the server entry. The key is sent as a Bearer token, the same way a hosted connection sends it, so calls are metered and billed exactly as they are there.

It lists only this pack's tools by default. Set PIPEWORX_META_TOOLS=1 to also list ask_pipeworx and the other gateway-wide tools.

Behind an HTTPS proxy: Node's built-in fetch does not read HTTPS_PROXY by default. Newer Node releases honour it when NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1 is set; check your Node version's documentation.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Gastat data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT