Scb Se MCP Server

@pipeworx/scb-se

Statistics Sweden (SCB) MCP — Swedish official statistics: figures from the PxWeb statistical database, plus what SCB has just published and what it is scheduled to publish next. Keyless.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1866+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

Figures and table navigation (PxWeb API, api.scb.se)

• subjects(path?) — navigate the subject tree (root or sub-path)
• table_meta(path) — table definition (dimensions, valid values)
• query_table(path, body) — request data from a table; body is a PxWeb query ({query: [{code, selection: ...}], response: {format: "json-stat2"}})
• sweden_latest_figure(indicator, period?) — a Swedish headline statistic as a number in one call. Covers inflation (CPI annual change, percent) and cpi (index, 2020=100). Pinned to KPI2020M, because the similarly-named KPItotM froze at 2025M12 and would hand back a year-old figure.

Releases (SCB website, www.scb.se)

• scb_se_statistical_news(days?, from?, to?, lang?, limit?) — statistical news releases (statistiknyheter) already published: headline, summary, date, statistical product, URL. Swedish by default; lang: "en" for English titles.
• scb_se_publishing_calendar(period?, from?, to?, form?, subject_areas?, sort_field?, sort_order?, limit?) — the official publishing calendar: which statistical products are released on which date, with product code, reference period and publishing form. The only way to answer "what is SCB publishing next week".

Auth

None. No API key on any endpoint. api.scb.se reports maxCallsPerTimeWindow: 30 per 10s window, CORS enabled, licence CC0. www.scb.se/robots.txt is User-agent: * / Disallow: — fully permissive.

Notes and traps

• The release tools scrape HTML, not an API. www.scb.se serves both listings as HTML fragments; there is no documented contract, and the field shapes can change without notice. The tool descriptions say so rather than implying an API.
• www.scb.se is a different host from api.scb.se and sits behind an F5 BIG-IP. It is reached with a browser User-Agent.
• The publishing calendar is a GET. Four different POST body shapes all return HTTP 200 with a plausible 20-row table that silently ignores every parameter and serves the default "1 week ahead" — it passes a smoke test while answering the wrong question. The real contract is ?period=Custom&dateFrom=…&dateTo=…&form=3&subjectAreas=AM&sortOrder=1&sortField=2&paging=0, and dateFrom/dateTo are honoured only with period=Custom.
• <h4>N hits</h4> in the calendar is the count on the current page (max 20), not the total. The total appears only as the high end of the last pagination range link.
• The news datetime attribute differs by language path. /en/ stamps US M/D/YYYY h:mm:ss AM; the Swedish path stamps YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. Parsing only one yields an empty window, not an error.
• News paging is 1-indexed (paging=0 → 404), 5 items per page, and the archive runs hundreds of pages deep, so the walk is bounded by the requested date window and a page cap.
• The Atom feed at https://www.scb.se/Feed/statistiknyheter/ is well-formed but returns exactly 10 entries (~9 days) and ignores ?lang=en, so it is not used as the source.
• PxWeb v2beta (https://api.scb.se/OV0104/v2beta/api/v2/tables?lang=en&pastDays=7) answers "which tables got new data" and is a separate question from either tool here. It carries no nextUpdate field — forward-looking scheduling exists only in the calendar.

Data sources

• PxWeb API — Statistics Sweden (SCB)
• Statistical news — https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistiknyheter/ · https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistical-news/
• Publishing calendar — https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/publishing-calendar/

Quick Start

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

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

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/scb-se/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 1866+ 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/scb_se_subjects \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"path":""}'

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

Run it from npm

@pipeworx/mcp-scb-se 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/scb-se/mcp endpoint shown above. It needs network access; there is no offline mode.

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

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 Scb Se data" })

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

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT