Read pupils, routes, bus positions, trips, boarding lists and incidents in SchoolBusTrack. Hosted by usefulapi: connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client.
Turn on the SchoolBusTrack connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
For school transport coordinators who follow buses, routes and trips in SchoolBusTrack.
List the latest position of every bus, with speed and whether the fix is stale. Open one bus to read its last known location.
List the scheduled, running and completed trips, filtered by day, status, route or campus. Open one trip to read its times and stops.
Read the manifest of a trip: each pupil with status and last event, grouped by stop. Read the route to check its ordered stops.
List incidents and SOS alerts, newest first, with severity, status, bus, trip and driver.
Read pupils with their class, campus and route assignment. Guardian and emergency contact details are never returned.
The login page asks for your SchoolBusTrack school key.
Your school administrator creates the key in the admin portal under Settings → Integrations → Create a key. It is shown once and starts with sbt_live_. Your key is used only to call the API on your behalf and to derive a private account id; it is never shown to anyone.
Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.
No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.
Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:
Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"schoolbustrack": {
"url": "https://schoolbustrack.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"schoolbustrack": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://schoolbustrack.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:
Windsurf, Cline, Zed and other MCP clients: add this URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser.
Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your SchoolBusTrack school key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
| Plan | Price | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 tool calls / month |
| Proper user | $9/mo · $90/yr | Unlimited* |
*Pro fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month on this server. For more, write to [email protected].
Pro covers this SchoolBusTrack server only. Subscribe with schoolbustrack_upgrade (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). Cancel any time with schoolbustrack_cancel_subscription: Pro continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and running schoolbustrack_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
schoolbustrack_pingschoolbustrack_list_studentsschoolbustrack_get_studentschoolbustrack_list_routesschoolbustrack_get_routeschoolbustrack_list_busesschoolbustrack_list_bus_locationsschoolbustrack_get_bus_locationschoolbustrack_list_tripsschoolbustrack_get_tripschoolbustrack_get_trip_manifestschoolbustrack_list_incidentsschoolbustrack_usage_statusschoolbustrack_request_featureschoolbustrack_upgradeschoolbustrack_cancel_subscriptionSee where the buses are right now. Check the trips of a school day. Prepare the boarding list for a trip. Review incidents and SOS alerts. Look up a pupil's class and route. See what you can do for the details.
No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by SchoolBusTrack. The server calls the SchoolBusTrack API with your own SchoolBusTrack access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.
Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.
The login page asks for your SchoolBusTrack school key. See Before you connect for where to find it.
No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your SchoolBusTrack school key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the SchoolBusTrack API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in SchoolBusTrack.
All 12 SchoolBusTrack tools are marked read-only.
The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month), for this SchoolBusTrack server only. Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period. Run schoolbustrack_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run schoolbustrack_upgrade: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. To cancel, run schoolbustrack_cancel_subscription. Pro continues to the end of the paid period.
Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with schoolbustrack_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.
Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.
This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.
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