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Digitraffic Ais MCP Server

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Digitraffic AIS MCP — live vessel positions in Finnish and Baltic Sea waters.

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Digitraffic AIS MCP — live vessel positions in Finnish and Baltic Sea waters.

Remote endpoints: streamable-http: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/digitraffic-ais/mcp

Security Report

10.0
Low Risk10.0Low Risk

Valid MCP server (1 strong, 0 medium validity signals). No known CVEs in dependencies. Imported from the Official MCP Registry. Trust signals: trusted author (1291/1304 approved). 1 finding(s) downgraded by scanner intelligence.

34 tools verified · Open access · 1 issue found

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file_system

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HTTP Network Access

Connects to external APIs or services over the internet.

How to Connect

Remote Plugin

No local installation needed. Your AI client connects to the remote endpoint directly.

Add this to your MCP configuration to connect:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-github-pipeworx-io-digitraffic-ais": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/digitraffic-ais/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Documentation

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From the project's GitHub README.

@pipeworx/digitraffic-ais

Live vessel positions in Finnish and Baltic waters, from Fintraffic's AIS receivers. Keyless.

Tools

  • ais_vessels_near(...) — vessels within a radius of a point, with position, speed, course, navigational status and type.
  • ais_area_count(...) — how many vessels are in an area, broken down by ship type.
  • ais_vessel(...) — latest position and voyage details for one vessel by MMSI.

Auth

None.

Coverage

Regional, not worldwide. Fintraffic's receivers cover Finland and the surrounding Baltic — Gulf of Finland, Gulf of Bothnia, Archipelago Sea, Åland — with fringe reception toward Estonia and Sweden. Every tool description says so, because a worldwide vessel question routed here would return a confidently empty answer. For coverage beyond the Baltic use live_ships_in_area (vessel-tracking), which reaches wherever community receivers exist.

Gotcha worth knowing

The API requires Accept-Encoding: gzip — requesting identity encoding returns HTTP 406. The pack also sniffs the gzip magic bytes (0x1f 0x8b) rather than trusting the Content-Encoding header, because Node/undici transparently decompresses while leaving the header in place, and double-decompressing throws Z_DATA_ERROR.

Data sources

  • https://meri.digitraffic.fi/api/ais/v1/locations
  • https://meri.digitraffic.fi/api/ais/v1/vessels

Quick Start

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

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

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway for access to all 1394+ data sources:

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

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Digitraffic Ais data" })

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

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License

MIT

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