How to Use the Hotjar (Behavior Analytics) MCP in Claude Code

Q: How do I connect the Hotjar (Behavior Analytics) MCP Server to Claude Code?

Run claude mcp add --transport http hotjar-analytics -- in your terminal. Make sure all flags come before the server name. Verify the installation with claude mcp list.

Q: Does Claude Code support exporting Hotjar (Behavior Analytics) data?

Your terminal agent can easily fetch data using listsurveyresponses and write the output directly to local files or pipe it to other command-line utilities.

Q: How do I query a specific site using this MCP standard?

Instruct Claude Code to run getsite with your target URL. The agent will parse the response and use that specific site ID for all subsequent tool calls.

Q: How does the terminal handle privacy for Hotjar survey responses?

The CLI environment processes the raw JSON returned by listsurveyresponses entirely in memory. It respects the data masking policies configured in your account, ensuring no raw PII gets permanently logged to your configuration files.

Pipe Hotjar (Behavior Analytics) data directly into your terminal with Claude Code to automate UX monitoring and feedback alerts.

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Headless funnel monitoring

This MCP Server exposes your user journey metrics straight to your command line using `list_funnels`. Claude Code runs `list_sites` to grab your project IDs, then executes funnel checks on a cron schedule to watch for sudden drops in conversion. You never have to open a web browser to check site health. Your terminal agent detects a 20% drop in checkout completions, fires off a webhook to your alerting system, and logs the incident.

Terminal-based feedback extraction

Your CLI agent pulls raw user sentiment via `list_surveys` and `list_survey_responses` directly into your shell environment via this MCP Server. You can pipe this data into jq or pass it to another script for sentiment analysis. When a deployment goes bad, Claude Code instantly queries `list_feedback`. It scans the incoming widget responses for keywords like "broken" or "error", giving you immediate qualitative context during an active incident.

Audit recordings via Claude Code

Claude Code queries `list_recordings` and `list_heatmaps` to fetch bulk engagement metadata without a GUI. You can script the agent to generate weekly performance reports based purely on API responses. The agent uses `get_heatmap` to dump click coordinates into a local JSON file. SREs can then use this raw data to correlate front-end engagement spikes with backend server load.

Setup guide

Set up Hotjar (Behavior Analytics) MCP in Claude Code

Prerequisites

Claude Code CLI installed (npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code)
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Run the add command

Open your terminal and run the command shown on the right. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your endpoint token from cloud.vinkius.com. Use --scope user to make it available across all projects.
2

Verify the connection

Start a Claude Code session and type /mcp to list connected servers. You should see hotjar-behavior-analytics-mcp with a green status indicator.
3

Start using tools

Ask Claude Code something like "Check my latest Hotjar (Behavior Analytics) transactions." It will automatically discover and invoke the available Hotjar (Behavior Analytics) tools.

Terminal

claude mcp add --transport http hotjar-behavior-analytics-mcp https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp

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Prerequisites

Claude Code CLI installed
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Open the config file

Create or edit .mcp.json in your project root for project-level scope, or ~/.claude.json for user-level scope.
2

Add the Hotjar (Behavior Analytics) MCP

Paste the JSON snippet shown on the right into the mcpServers object. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your endpoint token from cloud.vinkius.com.
3

Restart Claude Code

Start a new Claude Code session. Type /mcp to confirm the server is connected. The tools will be automatically available in your conversation.

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hotjar-behavior-analytics-mcp": {
      "type": "url",
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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Common questions about Hotjar (Behavior Analytics) MCP in Claude Code

Run `claude mcp add --transport http hotjar-analytics -- ` in your terminal. Make sure all flags come before the server name. Verify the installation with `claude mcp list`.

Yes. You can configure a GitHub Action to trigger Claude Code, which then calls `list_funnels` to verify that a recent deployment didn't break the primary conversion paths.

Your terminal agent can easily fetch data using `list_survey_responses` and write the output directly to local files or pipe it to other command-line utilities.

Instruct Claude Code to run `get_site` with your target URL. The agent will parse the response and use that specific site ID for all subsequent tool calls.

The CLI environment processes the raw JSON returned by `list_survey_responses` entirely in memory. It respects the data masking policies configured in your account, ensuring no raw PII gets permanently logged to your configuration files.

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