Excel Bridge
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Bridges AI with Excel files, enabling reading from and writing to spreadsheets through standardized operations for data analysis, reporting, and document generation workflows.
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- Author
- bigcoder84
- Repository
- bigcoder84/mcp-excel-server
- GitHub stars
- 3
- Categories
- Productivity, Developer Tools, Workplace, File Management, AI, Infrastructure, Automation
- Tags
- #integration
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Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
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Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
Excel BridgeCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)javaArguments-
Argument 1
-Dspring.ai.mcp.server.stdio=true -
Argument 2
-Dspring.main.web-application-type=none -
Argument 3
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -
Argument 4
-jar -
Argument 5
{your_path}/mcp-excel-server-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
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Argument 1
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
read_excel
Read a local Excel file (.xlsx or .xls) and return its content in JSON format.
write_excel
Write JSON data to a specified local Excel file.
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Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"excel bridge": {
"cwd": "",
"env": {},
"args": [
"-Dspring.ai.mcp.server.stdio=true",
"-Dspring.main.web-application-type=none",
"-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8",
"-jar",
"{your_path}/mcp-excel-server-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "java"
}
}
}Linux
{
"cwd": "",
"env": [],
"args": [
"-Dspring.ai.mcp.server.stdio=true",
"-Dspring.main.web-application-type=none",
"-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8",
"-jar",
"{your_path}/mcp-excel-server-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "java"
}Macos
{
"cwd": "",
"env": [],
"args": [
"-Dspring.ai.mcp.server.stdio=true",
"-Dspring.main.web-application-type=none",
"-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8",
"-jar",
"{your_path}/mcp-excel-server-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "java"
}Windows
{
"cwd": "",
"env": [],
"args": [
"-Dspring.ai.mcp.server.stdio=true",
"-Dspring.main.web-application-type=none",
"-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8",
"-jar",
"{your_path}/mcp-excel-server-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar"
],
"shell": false,
"command": "java"
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