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Purge cached content

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

Purge cached content Purges cached content from Netlify's CDN. Supports purging by Cache-Tag. [POST /purge]

Name on the gateway: netlify_api__purge_cache · may change things.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
site_idstring
site_slugstring
cache_tagsarray

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": "netlify_api__purge_cache",
  "arguments": {}
}

Or connect the Netlify API server directly, which lists 188 tools including this one:

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

Try asking

Use the purge cached content tool with site_id set to ….

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