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Get all commonly used licenses

An MCP tool from the GitHub API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Get all commonly used licenses Lists the most commonly used licenses on GitHub. For more information, see "Licensing a repository ." [GET /licenses]

Name on the gateway: github_api__licenses_get_all_commonly_used · read-only.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
featuredbooleanfeatured parameter
per_pageintegerThe number of results per page (max 100). For more information, see "Using…
pageintegerThe page number of the results to fetch. For more information, see "Using…

How to call it

Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:

call_tool arguments
{
  "name": "github_api__licenses_get_all_commonly_used",
  "arguments": {}
}

Or connect the GitHub API server directly, which lists 1,221 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal
claude mcp add --transport http hj-github-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/github-api \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Try asking

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