joplin-mcp-server

MCP server for Joplin

→ jordanburke/joplin-mcp-server· npm: joplin-mcp-server· listed on npm

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: JOPLIN_SYNC_PASSWORD, JOPLIN_TOKEN

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configA

configB

configJOPLIN_CLI— The Joplin CLI is resolved in this order: env var > node_modules/.bin/joplin (bundled) > global install > npx fallback.

configJOPLIN_HOST— Connects to an existing Joplin instance instead of spawning a sidecar. Activated by setting or JOPLIN_PORT.

configJOPLIN_PORT— Connects to an existing Joplin instance instead of spawning a sidecar. Activated by setting JOPLIN_HOST or .

configJOPLIN_PROFILE— Joplin data directory for sidecar mode ~/.config/joplin-mcp

🔐 secretJOPLIN_SYNC_PASSWORD— Sync password --

configJOPLIN_SYNC_PATH— Sync target URL/path --

configJOPLIN_SYNC_TARGET— Sync target type none

configJOPLIN_SYNC_USERNAME— Sync username/email --

🔐 secretJOPLIN_TOKEN— API token (required) --

configLOG_LEVEL— Log level: debug, info, warn, error info

configMISSING

configMY_VAR

configSUB

configTRANSPORT_TYPE

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commit: 7289e3cdcfc22a35bacab18edb5480fa9c54aced

code hash: 54c3b7e8f15bb879dd5d3e681dd0ed981f038ee469b5613d50d2e94ce7ce6aaf

verified: 6/10/2026, 11:09:07 AM

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