TickTick MCP Server

Connect AI assistants to TickTick.

TickTick MCP is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for TickTick. It lets Claude and other MCP clients read projects, find tasks, create tasks, and complete work from chat.

What You Can Do

• Ask what is due today.
• Find overdue or high-priority tasks.
• Create tasks and checklist items.
• Update, complete, or delete tasks.
• Manage TickTick projects.

Features

Project Management

• 📁 Get Projects - List all your TickTick projects/lists
• 📁 Get Project by ID - Get specific project details
• 📁 Get Project with Data - Get project with all tasks and kanban columns
• ➕ Create Project - Create new projects with custom colors and view modes
• ✏️ Update Project - Modify project settings
• 🗑️ Delete Project - Remove projects

Task Queries

• ✅ Get Tasks - Retrieve tasks from all projects or a specific one
• 📅 Today’s Tasks - Get tasks due today
• ⚠️ Overdue Tasks - Get tasks past their due date
• 🎯 Priority Filter - Get high/medium priority tasks
• 🏷️ Filter by Tag - Get tasks with specific tags
• 🏷️ Get All Tags - List all unique tags

Task Management

• ➕ Create Tasks - Add new tasks with title, priority, due date
• ➕ Create with Subtasks - Add tasks with checklist items
• ➕ Add Subtask - Add subtask to existing task
• ✔️ Complete Tasks - Mark tasks as done
• ✏️ Update Tasks - Modify existing tasks
• 🗑️ Delete Tasks - Remove tasks

Installation

Option 1: pip install (recommended)

pip install ticktick-mcp

Option 2: From source

git clone https://github.com/ainishanov/ticktick-mcp.git
cd ticktick-mcp
pip install -e .

Setup

1. Get TickTick API Access Token

1. Go to TickTick Developer Portal
2. Create a new application
3. Complete OAuth2 flow to get your access token
4. Copy the access token

2. Configure Environment

Create a .env file in the project directory:

cp .env.example .env

Edit .env and add your token:

TICKTICK_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_access_token_here

3. Configure MCP clients

pip install adds ticktick-mcp to your Python environment, so cwd is typically not required. For source checkouts, set cwd to /path/to/ticktick-mcp/src so Python can import ticktick_mcp from the local source tree.

3a. Claude Desktop

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\Claude Desktop\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ticktick": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "ticktick_mcp.server"],
      "env": {
        "TICKTICK_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_access_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

If you run from source:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ticktick": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "ticktick_mcp.server"],
      "cwd": "/path/to/ticktick-mcp/src",
      "env": {
        "TICKTICK_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_access_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

3b. Claude Code (CLI)

Add to ~/.mcp.json (macOS/Linux) or %USERPROFILE%\.mcp.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ticktick": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "ticktick_mcp.server"],
      "env": {
        "TICKTICK_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_access_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

From source:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ticktick": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "ticktick_mcp.server"],
      "cwd": "/path/to/ticktick-mcp/src",
      "env": {
        "TICKTICK_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_access_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

3c. Cursor

Add a new MCP entry to Cursor’s config (often ~/.cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ticktick": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "ticktick_mcp.server"],
      "env": {
        "TICKTICK_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_access_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

3d. Continue

Add to Continue’s MCP config file (for example, ~/.continue/config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ticktick": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "ticktick_mcp.server"],
      "cwd": "/path/to/ticktick-mcp/src",
      "env": {
        "TICKTICK_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_access_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

3e. Generic stdio-compatible MCP config

Most MCP clients accept a similar shape. Use the same block format and place it in your client’s MCP server configuration area:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ticktick": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "ticktick_mcp.server"],
      "cwd": "/path/to/ticktick-mcp/src",
      "env": {
        "TICKTICK_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_access_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

4. Restart your MCP client

After configuration, restart the MCP client to load the server.

If the tools do not appear or the server reports an auth error, see Troubleshooting.

Usage Examples

Once configured, you can ask Claude:

• “What tasks do I have today?”
• “Show me all high priority tasks”
• “Create a task ‘Review PR #123’ with high priority due tomorrow”
• “Mark task ID xxx in project yyy as complete”
• “What projects do I have in TickTick?”

Available Tools

Project Tools

Task Query Tools

Task Management Tools

Priority Levels

Development

# Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/ainishanov/ticktick-mcp.git
cd ticktick-mcp

# Create virtual environment
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # or `venv\Scripts\activate` on Windows

# Install with dev dependencies
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run tests
pytest

# Lint
ruff check .

OAuth2 Token Generation

If you need to generate an access token programmatically, here’s a helper script:

import httpx

CLIENT_ID = "your_client_id"
CLIENT_SECRET = "your_client_secret"
REDIRECT_URI = "http://localhost:8080/callback"

# Step 1: Get authorization URL
auth_url = f"https://ticktick.com/oauth/authorize?client_id={CLIENT_ID}&redirect_uri={REDIRECT_URI}&response_type=code&scope=tasks:read tasks:write"
print(f"Open this URL in browser:\n{auth_url}")

# Step 2: After redirect, exchange code for token
code = input("Enter the code from redirect URL: ")

response = httpx.post(
    "https://ticktick.com/oauth/token",
    data={
        "client_id": CLIENT_ID,
        "client_secret": CLIENT_SECRET,
        "code": code,
        "grant_type": "authorization_code",
        "redirect_uri": REDIRECT_URI,
    },
)

print(response.json())
# Save the access_token to your .env file

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md and avoid committing access tokens, OAuth secrets, .env files, or private task data.

Good first contributions are small tests, docs improvements, focused error-message improvements, or mocked TickTick API fixtures.

Maintainers releasing a new version should follow the release checklist.

Security

Do not open public issues with credentials or private task data. See SECURITY.md.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• Model Context Protocol by Anthropic
• TickTick for their API