Webflow MCP setup is dope!

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If you use AI and Webflow, and aren’t using MCP yet, now’s the time.
I can see the team continually updating the Github repo, which is awesome, and a huge change that slid under the radar quietly is the setup process.

Now, you no longer have to generate an API token and put it in your MCP configuration file. Webflow is hosting the MCP server itself, and it now has integrated OAuth support so you can generate the token automatically during setup.

You still need to have Node installed for npx but that’s easy to do.
I’m using Claude Pro currently, and it’s making large-scale CMS work a joy.

  • Generating CMS collections from other datasources, like an RSS feed
  • Generating CMS items from an existing site, like importing a WP blog into the Webflow CMS
  • Reformatting plaintext to good-looking richtext
  • Generating test data that is very specific to a particular client setup ( Webflow inbuilt AI CMS generation is cool but it’s limited compared to what Claude is capable of ).

The uses keep growing.

Nice work Webflow!

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Hey @memetican, I’ve been toying around with this the last couple of days. Could you elaborate on what you mean by “Reformatting plaintext to good-looking richtext” and it’s use case?

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Hi @Ryan_Nelson an easy example is when you get emails from a client that want you to add something to the site. In my case, doctors will send unformatted writeups of a new service they want to add.

In Claude desktop, I’ll have it reformat the text first, then create a new CMS item in the appropriate collection using that text.

In a few cases that might be something more atomic like a list of products and prices, in the email, or in a spreadsheet. I can simply copy-paste, reformat, and then create those CMS items through MCP.